10.MTA-TK

Assoc. Prof.
Balázs Vizi

Task 1.3

Language and minority rights

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, established in 1825, includes since 2000 the Institute for Minority Studies, which works under the auspices of the Centre for Social Sciences (mta-tk). The primary objective of the Institute is to conduct research on minority communities in the social, economic and political spheres in Hungary, the Central European region, and Europe as a whole. The Institute brings together cultural anthropologists, legal experts, sociologists and historians and works in close co-operation with other institutes in the Centre for Social Sciences, particularly Institutes for Legal Studies, Political Science and Sociology. The Centre for Social Sciences is currently involved in various international research projects and is partner in 20 FP7 projects. It offers an excellent research infrastructure for the more than 100 research staff.

Institute for Minority Studies

Task in the project

Mta-tk will lead task 1.3 devoted to “Language and Minority Rights”. The issue of minority rights is relevant to the analyses carried out in all the other MIME work packages, and partner mta-tk will accordingly be providing regular background expertise to research teams in work packages 2 through 6.

Staff

Assoc. Prof. Balázs Vizi
Edgar Dobos
Noemi Nagy

Experience

Dr. Vizi has extensive expertise on minority rights and their implementation in contemporary Europe. He has contributed to research projects on minority language rights (e.g. EU SSA financed programme: Dimensions of Linguistic Otherness: Prospects and Maintenance and Revitalization of Minority Languages; member of the organizing committee of 11th ICML) and provided expertise for international organisations (OSCE, Council of Europe, UN) and NGOs on the domestic implementation of international minority rights standards.