This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no 648693)
The „Lendület” Research Center for Educational and Network Studies (RECENS) at the HAS (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) offers an internship opportunity.
Duration of the internship program: October 2018 - December 2018
Working hours 6-8 hours/week
Candidates are welcome to send their application no later than September 21th by e-mail to: Rado.Marta@tk.mta.hu. Please mention „RECENS internship” in the subject of your email.
The article titled Discounting of Evolutionary Explanations in Sociology Textbooks and Curricula by Károly Takács has been published by Frontiers in Sociology and is freely available online at
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2018.00024/full
The article titled Social Closure and the Evolution of Cooperation via Indirect Reciprocity by Simone Righi and Károly Takács has been published by Nature Scientific Reports and is freely available online at the link below:
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences founded the Lendület (Momentum) Program in 2009 as an excellence program for young scientists. The primary aim of the program is to renew academic and university research programs by inviting excellent Hungarian researchers back home from abroad and keeping talented researchers in the country. To the present day, 164 Lendület (Momentum) Research Groups have been founded. The majority of them have signed the declaration below.
http://mta.hu/english/declaration-by-the-mta-lendulet-momentum-research-group-leaders-108836
In response to two proposed laws introduced for voting by the Hungarian Parliament and which threaten the scientific autonomy and financial independence of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the ALLEA President Antonio Loprieno has sent an open letter to the responsible Hungarian Minister of Innovation and Technology, Mr László Palkovics.
http://mta.hu/english/allea-open-letter-in-support-of-the-hungarian-academy-of-sciences-108845
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We are proud of the recent publications of our young scientists!
Please find below the list of recent publications of our young scientists (download in PDF):
https://recens.tk.mta.hu/fiatal-kutatoink-legfrissebb-publikacio-2017-2018
We are strongly concerned about the plans of the Hungarian government according to which the supervision and budgetary control over the research institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) is going to be taken over by the Ministry of Innovation and Technology from the MTA.
See below the proclamation of Hungarian Academy of Sciences:
http://mta.hu/english/the-academy-stands-by-its-independence-and-the-freedom-of-research-108816
The paper of Károly Takács as a co-author with Giangiacomo Bravo and Flaminio Squazzoni "Referrals and Information Flow in Networks Increase Discrimination: A Laboratory Experiment" has been published by Social Networks. (Impact factor: 2.462)