The ParticipaTEEN project has been awarded funding under the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV-2025-CHILD). The project brings together a transnational consortium of seven organisations from Hungary and Romania. The consortium is led by the Municipality of Újbuda (Budapest’s District XI), with the Child Opportunities Research Group participating in the work as a consortium partner. The project’s goal is to co-create effective, inclusive, systemic and sustainable mechanisms with teenagers that empower them to take an active role in shaping their communities.
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The article “We’re not heroes, we’re just doing our job: analysis of social workers’ discourses about their profession in online communities” by Éva Perpék, Zsófia Bauer, Zsuzsanna Elek and Ágnes Győri has been published in Quality and Quantity (2025). Q1
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-025-02251-2
Within the framework of the OTKA 147050 research project, we organized a conference session at the ESRS international conference titled “Navigating Rural Transitions: Exploring Liveable Futures”, held in Riga between 7–11 July 2025. The session was entitled: “Building Liveable Rural Futures: Social and Solidarity Economy in the Light of Social and Climate Justice in Rural Areas.” During the session, we presented the first results of our research.
https://gyerekesely.tk.elte.hu/en/social-economy-in-the-promotion-of-social-integration
With the contribution of Éva Perpék, the interactive handbook 101 kérdés és válasz az önkéntességről – önkénteseknek és civil-nonprofit szervezeteknek has been published. Editors: Anna Mária Bartal, László Dorner, Réka Nagy. (Líceum Kiadó, 2025)
https://www.onkentesszemle.hu/101-kerdes-es-valasz-az-onkentessegrol-onkenteseknek-es-szervezeteknek/
On 29 April 2025, Márta Kiss participated as an invited expert in the roundtable discussion titled “Community Gardens and the Future of Rural Areas”, held within the framework of the Provident Kiskert Symposium.
An article by Mariann Kopasz, Karolina Balogh, and Márta Kiss entitled “Variations in school social work. Results from a Hungarian qualitative study” has been published in Socio.hu Social Science Review.
https://www.socio.hu/index.php/so/article/view/1092/994
Within the framework of the OTKA 147050 research project, we organized a conference session entitled “The Role and Opportunities of the Social Economy Today: Actors, Goals, Tasks, Changing Trends and Challenges” at the 2024 Annual Conference of the Hungarian Sociological Association in Pécs. We also presented the results of the data-mapping phase of our research project.
The article written by Márton Medgyesi and Ábel Csathó “The effect of the local economic context and local public services on financial satisfaction among youth in European cities” has been published in Frontiers in Sociology, 9:1207807. Q1, IF 2.2
https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1207807
The article written by Ildikó Husz and Márton Medgyesi together with coauthors Marianna Kopasz and Ágnes Győri “Does attending to extremely poor clients increase the burnout of social workers?” has been published in European Journal of Social Work, (2024, 28(2), 338–353.) Q1, IF 1.6
https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2024.2367069
The article Who exits? A mixed methods analysis of determinants of turnover intention among Hungarian social workers by Ágnes Győri and Éva Perpék has been published in the European Journal of Social Work (Q1, IF: 1.6).
Ágnes Győri, Éva Perpék and Szilvia Ádám published an article in Frontiers in Public Health (Q1, IF: 3) titled Mental health risk in human services work across Europe: the predictive role of employment in various sectors.