“Social Capital and Regional Development” EU 6 “Soc
Endre Sik is the main researcher of the Hungarian team of the LOCALMULTIDEM project. He is a senior researcher at the Centre for International Migration and Refugee Studies (http://www.migration.mtaki.hu/migracio_alap.pdf), as well as a professor at the Department of Minority Studies at ELTE University in Budapest. He is a project manager at TARKI Social Research Centre (http://www.tarki.hu/indexe.html). At present he is the Hungarian representative of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (http://eumc.eu.int/eumc/index.php). He has previously taught at Notre Dame University (Indiana, USA), at the University of Toronto (Canada) and the Central European University (Prague). He has also been a consultant for international organizations such as the UNDP and the ILO. He has been recently involved as a researcher in the following projects: “Social Capital and Social Policy” EU 6 th Framework Programme, 2006 “Social Capital and Regional Development” EU 6 th Framework Programme, 2006 “Social Quality and the Changing Relationships between work, care and welfare in Europe”, EU 6 th Framework Programme, 2006 – “Labour Market Flexibility and the Households”, EU 5th Framework Programme, 2000 2004 “Local Goverment Monitoring and Data Bank”, Open Society Institute, Budapest, 19982000 “Diasporapolitics in Hungary, in Russia and in the Ukraine”, COLPI, Budapest, 19982000 His research fields cover migration, xenophobia, labour market, informal economy, households’ economic behaviour, and social network capital. CV: http://www.socialnetwork.hu/indexe.html Selected Publications in English: Hungary (2005) (Zakariás Ildikóval) POLITIS Project, Country Report, www.unioldenburg.de/politiseurope/9812.html Hungary (2005) Mutual learning programme of the European Employment Strategy, Dublin, www.mutuallearningemployment.net/Irland05 The main characteristics and applications of LGMDP (2005) in Spatial Impact of Immigration Ministero della Infrastrutture del Transporti, Rome, pp.
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