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Learning Regions in Hungary (LeaRn) – Non-Formal Learning Point of View

Learning Regions in Hungary as a research projects aims to describe communities, territories and regions that can be called the spatial centres of learning. The aim of the research is to explore and analyse the economic, political, and cultural that contribute to the creation of a learning region; to identify, describe, and compare the regional units as learning communities as well as their cooperation as future "learning regions" (Kozma et al, 2016). We analysed the establishment, organisation and development of learning regions by four dimensions: venues of formal education, systems of vocational training and non-vocational adult education, forms of cultural learning and communal activities.

Learning regions in Hungary: From theory to reality

2021

This volume provides a summary of the latest findings of the research into learning regions conducted between 2011-2015 (LeaRn project), presenting the surveys and analyses comprehensively for the first time in Hungarian.

Centre for Regional Studies Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2016

The article analyses the causes of spatial inequalities in post-socialist Hungary from a Marxist approach. Socioeconomic and spatial differentiation between east and west of Hungary is a topic of debate that has gone beyond the acad-emia. Regional disparities of the economic development of the country have increased during the postsocialist transition period and have not improved since the entry into the European Union. In this sense, spatial inequalities are, undoubtedly, the geographical proofs of the capitalist mode of production and to understand the current features of the production and reproduction of these inequalities is necessary to analyse the social conditions such as gender and ethnicity. The rise of regional inequalities in the Hungarian economy since the political change has been accompanied by changes in the division of labour and in the capital and, thus, creating new models of regional disparities in the economy. The unequal development of Hungary at different geog...

LEARNING REGIONS FOR RESILIENCE IN HUNGARY CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Our study reconsiders the results of the LeaRn ('Learning Regions in Hungary: From Theory to Reality') research project, focusing on the potential contribution of learning regions to regional resilience. After drawing attention to some key points of the theoretical background of learning regions and resilience, we present the results of the statistical examination of the spatial centres of learning and identify the potential learning regions in Hungary. Finally we explain the main findings of case studies which indicated (if not proved) the connection between successful community learning and socioeconomic resiliency. The complex indicator and map of learning regions convey important messages about the conditions and potentials of the evolution of learning regions, learning cities and learning communities in Hungary including the area of regional resilience. Our hypothesis, therefore, is that learning regions in Hungary have the potential for becoming resilient regions as a consequence of the geographic, cultural and social proximity. The study offers evidence to confirm the role of the LeaRn Index set up for the Hungarian learning patterns in this process. Comparing the learning patterns of the Hungarian settlements with socioeconomic indicators allows us to conclude that those regions which are more open to learning have better economic indicators and well-being indexes. PREFACE The present study reconsiders the results of the LeaRn project, focusing on the potential contribution of learning regions to regional resilience. LeaRn ('Learning Regions in Hungary: From Theory to Reality' research project, supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund, principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Tamás Kozma) was carried out between 2011 and 2015. The research was organized by the University of Debrecen, the Department of Andragogy and the Department of Pedagogy; besides the organizers, a number of other professional groups from other institutions at the University of Debrecen and the University of Pécs were also involved in the project. The structure of the study is as follows: the first chapter introduces the terms, drafts the history of learning regions in the research and development policy and draws attention to some key points of the theoretical background of learning regions and resilience. The second chapter presents the results of the statistical examination of the spatial centres of learning and identifies the potential learning regions in Hungary. The third chapter provides a summary of case studies (presenting four towns of the country) focusing on the relations between community learning and resilience.

The new National Atlas of Hungary – volume Society

Proceedings of the ICA, 2021

The current volume, National Atlas of Hungary-Society, is Part 3 of the series. It presents the special world of Hungarian society and, according to the availability of data, also that of the Carpatho-Pannonian Area. By combining the tools of statistics, geography and cartography, the maps present the spatial structure accompanied by numerous graphs, photos, texts and infographics. The present volume of the National Atlas, Society, contributes to a much deeper understanding of processes and a better understanding of the relationships between phenomena through the presentation of the spatial diversity of demographic and social processes in historical perspective. This is a significant record of the period also showing the challenges that Hungarian society faces at the end of the second decade of the 21st century. This addition to the National Atlas of Hungary-with its extensive body of knowledge presented in this work-is an important document of great benefit not only to geographers but also to historians, economists, politicians, and all other interested parties.

The most important city development initiatives of Hungary

Regional Statistics, 2019

Recently, Hungary’s urban development issues have been gaining increasing attention, while directions and institutional frameworks of regional politics are in a constant change. In this context, the study discusses the contents and connotations that can be linked to the territorial concept of major Hungarian cities; it also examines the changes in the position of these cities in the urban system. Major cities have a key role in territorial development as they facilitate spatial processes, and hence it is crucial to identify the weight and directions these centres with complex functions represent in development concepts. The formation or even restructuring of spatial processes require time. Since the democratic transition in 1989–1990, different development directions were assigned to major cities in short cycles. Cities have failed to adapt to these ever-changing objectives. The first part of this study presents the layers of the concept of major cities and characterize such categories as regional centre, city, county seat, and city with county rights. The second part tries to locate these centres, exploring changes in their developmental emphases, and also identifies pathways in the frequently changing territorial politics of the posttransition period.

Potential model as a tool of understanding the recent regional structure of Hungary

2005

The change of political and economic regime after the State Socialist period (1948-1989) and forming a neo-liberal market economy changed the spatial structure of the country very rapidly. The winner of the new era became the capital city and its' surrounding (agglomeration zone), the Budapest-Vienna axis, and the Western border region. There were some other local success stories in the countyside, but they were unable form innovative, rapidly growing zones, just became islands (cathedrals in the desert, as Castells said in 1989). This limited number of success stories formed out two basically different types of restruction and modernisation. One was connected mainly to the capital city itself, characterised by the post-industrial way of development, strenghten with the dominant role of institutions and government. The other possible path of local and/or territorial success based on re-industrialisation with close connections to FDI in electronics and automobile industries. The...