TARKI Research Institute Inc. (Hungary)

Postal address:
TÁRKI Social Research Institute Inc
Budaorsi utca 45
Budapest 1112
Hungary

TÁRKI was founded in 1985 by major Hungarian social science research units to create a centre for empirical sociological research, to establish a data bank that collects the databases of national and international surveys, and to facilitate an up-to date methodological culture. In the late 1990s TÁRKI separated its wide range of activities and formed the TÁRKI Group.

The Group comprises three organisations: TÁRKI Joint Research Centre (TÁRKI JRC), TÁRKI Social Research Institute Inc., and the TÁRKI Foundation.
TARKI provides the technical and infrastructure background for the implementation of the project, including its administrative staff and the services of its financial department.

The TARKI team comprises researchers whose respective areas of expertise complement each other effectively.

The team includes Prof. Endre Sik (Team Leader) and Prof. Antal Örkeny

Prof. Endre Sik is a project manager at TÁRKI and a professor at ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest). His main fields of research are: migration, Diaspora; xenophobia, labour market, informal economy, households’ economic behaviour; social network capital. He has been engaged in a broad range of international research activities, among them: “Diaspora-politics in Hungary, in Russia and in Ukraine” (COLPI, Budapest 1998-2000); “Cultural Identity of Hungarian Migrants in Austria” (1997-2001, European Cultural Foundation, Wien-Budapest); “The Social Costs of Transformation”(1994-1996, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Wien/Austria); “Migration Potential” (1993-5, European Community, COST, Brain Drain Project).

Prof. Antal Örkény is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences and the head of the Social Psychology Department of Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. He is the chair of the ELTE-UNESCO MSD, and the director of the Minority Research Institute. His major research fields include cross-national surveys on national identity and national stereotypes, patterns of knowledge of nations about themselves and one another, popular perceptions of social justice, and inter-ethnic relations. He is an expert in cross-national comparative research methodology. Among his extensive publications, one of his books published in English is: Grappling with National Identity. How Nations See Each Other in Central Europe. Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 2000 (co-authors: György Csepeli and Mária Székelyi). Research fellow at the ENRI-East project - Chair of the Ethical Issues Group and member of the Survey TECHNICAL Group.

Prof. Endre Sik
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Prof. Antal Örkény
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