As part of the WISE (Women in Solidarity for Energy), LIGHT (Local Initiatives for Green Housing Transitions), and OTKA - Hungary in the Energy Crisis projects, Sára Szabó, Ana Stojilovska, and Lili Szücs from the Institute for Political Science organized on 12 May 2026 the conference “The Female Faces of Poverty – Challenges, Services, Vulnerable Groups” at the MTA Humanities Research House in Budapest. 

As part of the WISE (Women in Solidarity for Energy) and LIGHT (Local Initiatives for Green Housing Transitions) projects, Sára Szabó, Lili Szücs, and Ana Stojilovska from the Institute for Political Science organized a “storytelling workshop” with single mothers on the 18th of April 2026 in Budapest.

Researchers from the Institute for Political Science and the Institute of Sociology participated in the international workshop called “Workshop on Sustainability Conflicts in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans“  in Vienna on 20–21 May 2026. 

The Hungarian Psychodrama Association received the Nets4Dem Emerging Innovation Award in Brussels for the work carried out within the framework of the INSPIRE research project

As part of the WISE (Women in Solidarity for Energy) and LIGHT (Local Initiatives for Green Housing Transitions) projects, Lili Szücs, Sára Szabó, and Ana Stojilovska, from the Institute for Political Science, organized the “Energy Solidarity Days”.

A new publication by Andrea Szabó, András Bozóki, and Zoltán Gábor Szűcs has been published  Democracy Seminar , in which the researchers characterize the 2026 parliamentary elections using the concept of an “electoral revolution.”

Valuch Tibor, a member of our institute, published a chapter in De Gruyter Handbook of Eastern European Politics, Society and Culture called Deindustrialization to Reindustrialization: Social and Economic Impact of Postcommunist Industrial Transformation.

As part of the WISE (Women in Solidarity for Energy) and LIGHT (Local Initiatives for Green Housing Transitions) projects, 5 online workshops were held throughout November 2025 and February 2026, co-organized with Utcajogász Association and Menedék Association, and moderated by Ana Stojilovska, Sára Szabó, and Lili Szücs from the Institute for Political Science.

An article by Dániel Mikecz and Eszter Farkas has been published in the journal Problems of Post-Communism (Impact Factor: 2.0), in which they analyzed the voter behavior in the 2021 opposition primary elections.

A new study by Andrea Szabó, Senior Research Fellow, and Annamária Sebestyén, Research Fellow, at the Institute for Political Science has been published in the international journal ranking D1, called Post-Soviet Affairs (Taylor & Francis).