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In the 2021/2 issue of Esély (journal of social policy) a paper written by our colleague Borbála Lőrincz was published under the title “Come back, if it’s possible!” Good Practices and Dilemmas from a Children’s Camp Project in a Szekler Village. The project in the focus of the paper grew out of qualitative, empirical study, which researched everyday ethnicity and minority identities in a small Transylvanian village. The text presents the process in which a scientific work is applied and therefore validated in practice for the sake of the researched community. Furthermore, it aims to provide guidelines for those who do research and/or philanthropy in marginalized communities, especially among transborder ethnic Hungarians.

The phenomenon of declining response rates is a major challenge for empirical social research. Should the loss of response units be non-random, population estimates may become biased. A rising share of the “unreachable” may lead to an increased probability of non-randomness of the loss. Exploring the process is, therefore, crucial to understand what can be expected of our achieved samples. Click here to read the study by our colleagues in “Survey Methods: Insights from the Field” journal.

TÁRKI has launched an updated and extended version of its Integrated Poverty and Living Conditions Indicator System, IPOLIS. IPOLIS was developed within the frame of the InGRID and InGRID-2 projects, relying on inputs from other partners.
IPOLIS is a comprehensive, multidimensional, cross-country, and over-time comparative database on the quality of life of vulnerable groups in European societies. The updated version of the indicator database includes five vulnerable groups: children, young people, older people, disabled persons, and migrants. The data visualization tool attached to IPOLIS aims to serve as a resource for various user groups (such as researchers, policy makers, NGO experts, journalists, students) to explore the database in a flexible way and to extract outputs tailored to their needs.

Our colleague, Péter Róbert's new paper focuses on intergenerational mobility and explores the role of social origin in ending up in various class locations. Latent class analysis was applied to mapping the class structure based on economic, cultural and social assets. Parental education and occupation are used to examine how social origin operates in accumulating the various forms of capital and in getting into different class positions. Out of the forms of capital, economic resources, high cultural capital and prestige of social contacts depend particularly on the social origin; these are the main channels affecting mobility into the best class locations.

How is the housing situation for Roma people in France, Hungary, Romania, Italy and Spain? What difficulties face the Roma community in 2021? What do they need to change to get help? Among other things, the R-home project tries to find answers to these questions. Click here to watch the videos.

The UPLIFT project, which deals with social inequalities among urban young people, will be present in the 19th European Week of Cities and Regions on the 12th of October from 11.30 to 13.00 (CET). The session will give an insight into policy co-creation processes that involve young adults directly. Besides having plenary discussions and quizzes the participants will be split into groups to talk about interesting examples in housing, education, environment, and strategic development domains. If you are interested to take part in the online session, please register here. 

InGRID is a network of distributed but integrating European research infrastructures. InGRID research community focuses on social in/exclusion, vulnerability-at-work and related social and labour market policies from a European comparative perspective to make an evidence-based contribution to a European policy strategy of inclusive growth.
As the current InGRID-2 project runs to its end by 31 October 2021, Tárki, as a proud member of this community is pleased to invite you to the final conference.  The aim of the conference is to summarise and present the outcomes of this project. 
The event will take place online from September 9th (13h-17h CET) to September 10th, 2021 (9h-13h CET).

The EUROSHIP project released the results of its latest round of research into social rights and citizenship in the EU in a series of four working papers. One of the four, the "Diversity and change in citizenship: Mapping poverty in Europe" was authored by our colleagues, András Gábos, Zsófia Tomka and István György Tóth. 
EUROSHIP aims to provide new knowledge about the effectiveness of social protection policies targeted at reducing poverty and social exclusion in Europe. The findings of these working papers will be used to help develop policy recommendations on how to strengthen social citizenship at the national and EU level.

Using data from the COVID-19 questionnaire of SHARE, our colleague, Réka Branyiczki investigates with two partners the time patterns of precautionary health behaviours of individuals aged 50 years and above during the summer of 2020, an easing phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. Click here to read the article.

Expert workshop “Innovative strategies to study education and care in a European perspective” will be held online on 9-10 June 2021.  
The participants will discuss gaps in data and indicators and research strategies to close the hiatus in key comparative indicators of public services. 
The workshop is open to researchers and policy-makers active in the field of poverty, inequality and public services. 
Participation is free of charge. The number of participants is not limited. To attend, please fill out the registration form before June 6th.