Month: April 2025

  On 2 April 2025, Orsolya Ring delivered a lecture at the Central European University (CEU) as part of the Borderless Knowledge: What Can AI Offer to Science? (“Határtalan tudás: Mit adhat az AI a tudománynak?”) event. In her presentation, she explored how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming academic research, with a particular focus on its role in big data-driven studies — especially in processing the textual data widely used in the Social Sciences. Drawing on illustrative examples, she demonstrated how large language models can support the automated analysis of news media and help identify underlying patterns within it. She underscored that AI not only enhances the efficiency of scholarly work but also introduces new perspectives to empirical research. Further details of the event can be found here.  

PoltextLAB is a host institution in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ (MTA) newly launched Momentum-MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme (Momentum PPDF), through which we welcome applications for our V-SHIFT project. Co-funded by the European Commission and the Secretariat of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), with the support of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), the programme supports 35 exceptional postdoctoral researchers, offering them the opportunity to work within Hungarian Momentum (Lendület) research groups. This initiative fosters career development in dynamic research environments while enhancing the international visibility of Momentum projects. Additionally, it strengthens Hungary’s R&D and innovation ecosystem and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration across disciplines and sectors. Our research team offers postdoctoral researchers joining the programme the opportunity to use state-of-the-art AI-based methods to investigate the emergence of global powers on the domestic policy agenda of the V4 countries and to analyse attitudes and changes in attitudes towards them. The fellowship lasts up to 36 months. The first round of applications opens on 2 April 2025. Our research team will host postdoctoral researchers until August 2028. For more details on the fellowship programme, please visit: https://momentummsca.mta.hu/