Centre for Social Sciences - expertise offer in Child Poverty

The ELTE Centre for Social Sciences offers expertise for topic HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-TRANSFO 03: Tackling child poverty and ensuring disadvantaged children’s access.

In the Child Opportunity Research Group (CORG) researchers in sociology, economics, anthropology, and social policy are working together in the team. By approaching poverty in an interdisciplinary way—addressing persistent issues within education, healthcare, economics, and social welfare—this research program aims to provide strategic, long-term, and sustainable solutions for thousands of children and their families nationwide. It conducts basic and applied, policy-oriented research to create, strengthen, and monitor programs that exist to reduce and ultimately eradicate child poverty.

CORG’s research is driven by the strong belief that no child should ever have to experience poverty. In working with affected communities directly, and providing research and methodological support to government agencies and NGOs, the team strives to better the lives of children in need.

One of the main activities of the research group is conducting needs-based assessments of families with children. To keep track of the subregional programmes, the Child Opportunities Research Group has developed an online monitoring system. Professional implementers of the subregional programmes upload reports and data to this web interface on a monthly basis, on both adults and children participating in different programme elements.