The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research was established in Subotica in 1991. Its primary objectives are the realisation of scientific (sociological, demographic, ethnological, legal, historical and other) researches of social character in Vojvodina, collection of reference books, publication of scientific studies, organisation of conferences and lectures, etc. Its establisher was the already passed away Dr. László Rehák, retired university professor, who gathered around himself many Hungarian intellectuals, scientists and research workers from Vojvodina. Since 1995 and at present the president is the university professor Dr. Irén Gábrity-Molnár. The members of the society are university and high school professors, research workers, intellectuals, journalists and public figures. The office is situated in Subotica, Strosmajer Street 11, which is well-equipped with PC-s, telephone, printer, Xerox machine, and has a remarkable library with books and magazines to borrow.

During its activity so far the Association has dealt with the following research topics: the conscience of national and religious identity, the ethnic minorities' way of life, civil and ethnic minorities' rights, education in mother tongue, the chart of the educational network in Vojvodina, the migration of the Hungarians in Vojvodina, realisation of demographic, local and wider historical researches, the investigation of the intellectuals' and youth's behaviour, the compilation of the directory and data base of the Hungarians in Vojvodina, biographical indices, etc. The results of scientific researches are published by the members of the Association in scientific reviews of Vojvodina and abroad (mainly in Hungary). The Hungarian Scientific Academy has entitled the Association to be its research centre in Yugoslavia. The Association participates on a regular basis in the meetings of the Foreign Scientific Workshops of the Hungarian Scientific Academy, in the work of the Institute of Minority Research, and in the conferences, scientific counsels and presidential sessions of the Hungarian Professors of the World.

The theme of the conference organized annually: Mother tongue education of the ethnic minorities living outside the borders of their motherland in the Carpathian basin, The strategies of our national survival, The future and the present situation of the Hungarian mother tongue education in Vojvodina, Demographic and emigrational characteristics of the Hungarians in Vojvodina; a conference about the dimensions of the migration and its consequences, conference about the intellectual and material values of the Hungarians in region.

Participation in the following scientific projects: analysis of the conscience of identity, the Hungarian educational network in Vojvodina, questionnaires about the media popularity, international research of theological sociology, Religious behavior in Vojvodina, a comparative inquiry of the labour force market in the Carpathian Basin, migration/emigration research, the behaviour of the intellectuals in Vojvodina, the ideology and literature history of the Hungarians in Vojvodina, sporadic Hungarians, the Hungarian model of higher education in Vojvodina, changes in the structure of the Hungarian population in region, the researcher of borders.

Project name (selective data)

1. The causes and consequences of the migration of the Yugoslavs / Vojvodina Hungarians due to the socio-political crisis, supported by the Arany János Public Foundation Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 2002

2. Changes in the demographic indicators of the Hungarians in Vojvodina in the multicultural environment; Client: Vojvodina Provincial Legislative, Administrative and National Minority Secretariat (Novi Sad) 2002

3. Investigating support for cross-border Hungarian higher education and research development activities, mainly involving domestic and foreign human resources; Cross-border Higher Education and R & D Grants and Benefits, National Research and Development Program, 5/150/2001, Coordinator Berényi Dénes Academy. Budapest. 2001–2004.

4. Examination of issues related to the operation and development of the minority Hungarian language teaching and cultural institutions. Hungarian student's youth attitude and Hungarian professional and elite training at upper level in Vojvodina, with the support of the Arany János Public Foundation Budapest, 2004.

5. KÁRPÁT PANEL – sociological research 2007, The social situation and perspectives of the Hungarians of the Carpathian Basin, Institute for Ethnic and National Minorities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest, 2007-2008.

6. Media 2007. Information requests in Vojvodina, research with the sponsorship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HTMT) Scholarship Program, Budapest, 2007

7. European Surveillance of Adult Education Programs in Vojvodina – Adult Training Networks and the On-site Institutional Case Study, Research of the Hungarian Research Research Society (Subotica) with the support of the Provincial Education and Culture Secretariat Novi Sad, 2008.

8. Projekt – external evaluation of the SER 032 project calls The Inclusion of Roma Pupils in Secondary Schools in a Vojvodina, Name of the host institution: Roma Education Fund ("REF") Switzerland, 2009

9. Integrating (trans)national migrants in transition states (IMIG) (2010–2013). Project of the co-operation programme SCOPES Bern; The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) programme SCOPES – Scientific cooperation between Eastern Europe and Switzerland 2009–2012.

10. Project of the co-operation programme IPA – “HANDSHAKE – Development of Hungarian and Serbian vocational and adult education systems through competency based training activities; Probitas and Scientific Association for Hungarology Research Subotica, HUSRB/0901/221/099-PROBITAS-05. 15/07/2011-30/09/2011

11. Serbian citizens in Hungary. Kincses-Kovács Ltd. Budapest for the Hungarian Ministry of Interior. Sponsor: European Union European Integration Fund. Research leader: Dr. Áron Kincses, Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem. Featured researchers: Dr. Irén Gábrity-Molnár, Dr. Sándor Illés, Dr. Dávid Karácsonyi. Identification number: EIA /2011/ 1.3.5. Budapest. 2012.

12. Voice of the Village; The spirit of space - Keep in touch with the descendants. Hungary-Serbia IPA Cross-border Co-operation Programme, HUSRB/1002/222/033. Academic Society for the Development of the Micro-regions Budapest. Partners: Vojvodina Hungarian Cultural Institute, Zenta, Serbia). 2012.

13. HUNGARIAN YOUTH RESEARCH – KMI 2014; NSKI National Strategic Research Institute coordinates the coordination of Budapest, the conduct of the resources and youth of Vojvodina Hungarians. Partners in the Carpathian Basin Scientific Workshops. Gábrity Molnár Irén: Expert Proposal - Youth Development in Vojvodina (manuscript) project material. Quick Report and Suggestive Material. Budapest, 2014

14. Establishment of higher education services serving the needs of the knowledge industry in the Southern Great Plain region. Ministry of Human Resources, Budapest. TÁMOP-4.2.1.D-15/1 / KONV-2015-0002, JGYPK Vocational Training Center and the JGYPK Adult Education Center "Community College" Seged. The European Social Fund is supported. 2015

The books published

1. Kisebbségi autonómiák – önkormányzati törekvések (dokumentumgyűjtemény) [Autonomy of ethnic minorities – local government ambitions (collection of documents)]. 1992. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research

2. Dr. Szöllősy Vágó, László. 1992. Petőfi a déli végeken - A jugoszláviai Petőfi kultusz nyomában [Petőfi in the south region – in the wake of the Yugoslavian Petőfi cult]. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research

3. Dr. Tóth, Lajos. 1994. Magyar nyelvű oktatás a Vajdaságban 1944-től napjainkig [Education in Hungarian language in Vojvodina from 1944 until now]. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research and Open University of Subotica. Életjel 56.

4. Dr. Szöllősy Vágó, László. 1994. Népünkkel - népünkért (A szabadkai Népkör krónikája 1872-1992 [With our people – for our people (The chronicle of Népkör in Subotica 1872-1992)]. The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research, Subotica

5. Biacsi, Antal. 1994. Kis délvidéki demográfia [The small demographic chart of Vojvodina]. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research and Open University of Subotica. Életjel 57.

6. Bálizs, Jutka and Mikes, Melánia. 2004. Játszunk, énekeljünk magyarul! [Let’s play, sing in Hungarian]. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research

7. Csehák, Kálmán. 2004. Történelmi múltunk és jelenünk [Our historical past and present (collection of studies)]. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research and Hungarians Scientific Association in Vojvodina.

8. Vajda, Gábor. 2006. Remény a megfélemlítettségben – A délvidéki magyarság eszme- és irodalomtörténete (1945-1972) [Hope in the aweness – The ideology and literature history of the Hungarians in Vojvodina]. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research.

9. Dr. Korhecz, Tamás, Dr. Gábrity-Molnár, Irén and Deli, Andor. 2007. Tolerancia-építők/Graditelji tolerancije/Constructors of tolerance. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research and Pannónia Alap.

10. Vajda, Gábor: 2007. Az autonómia illúziója, A magyarság eszme- és irodalomtörténete a Délvidéken (1972-1989) [The illusion of autonomy, The ideology and literature history of the Hungarians in Vojvodina]. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research.

11. A határok kutatója [The researcher of borders], Ed: Szónoky Ancsin Gabriella, Pál Viktor, Karancsi Zoltán, Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research end University Szeged. 2007.

The publications in Hungarian language of the Scientific Association for Hungarology Research in Subotica

1. Anyanyelvű oktatásunk (Tanulmánykötet és címtár) [Our education in mother tongue (volume of studies and address book)]. 1997. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research.

2. Vajdasági útkereső (Tanulmánykötet és címtár) [Search of the future of Vojvodina (volume of studies and address book)]. 1998. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research.

3. Vajdasági marasztaló (Millenniumi tanulmánykötet és címtár) [The encouragement of remaining Vojvodina (volume of studies and address book)]. 2000. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research.

4. Fészekhagyó vajdaságiak (Tanulmánykötet és statisztikai adattár) [Migrating Hungarians of Vojvodina (volume of studies and statistical data)]. 2001. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research.

5. Holnaplátók (Ifjúsági közérzetmérleg) [Looking into the future (behaviour research of the youth). 2002. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research.

6. Térfoglaló (ifjúsági szerep- és közösségvállalás) [Taking place (the role taking and community involvement of the youth)]. 2003. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research.

7. Kisebbségi létjelenségek (szórvány és szociolingvisztikai kutatások) [Phenomenon of minority existence (diaspora and sociolinguistic research)]. 2003. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research.

8. A vajdasági magyarok kétnyelvűsége (nyelvpszichológiai vonatkozások) [Hungarian bilingualism in Vojvodina (psycholinguistic aspects)]. 2004. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research.

9. A vajdasági magyar nyelvhasználat rétegei, mintái, állományi, változási jellemzői – nyelvszociológiai és korpuszvizsgálati tanulmányok [The features of the Hungarian language use, its pattern and changes – sociolinguistic and corpus research studies]. 2004. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research.

10. Támogatás és hasznosulás (Hatástanulmányok az anyaországi juttatásokról) [Support and fulfilment (Efficiency studies about the support from Hungary)]. 2005. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research.

11. Közérzeti barangoló (Műhely és előadás-tanulmányok). [Behaviour survey (research group and lecture studies)]. 2005. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research.

12. Oktatási oknyomozó (vajdasági oktatástanulmányok) [The investigation of education (educational studies in Vojvodina)]. 2006. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research.

13. Regionális erőnlét (A humánerőforrás befolyása Vajdaságban) [The human resource in Vojvodina]. Gábrity Molnár Irén (ed.) 2008. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research.

14. Magyarságkutatás Vajdaságban [Research Hungarians in Vojvodina], 2011. Gábrity Molnár Irén (ed.) Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research.

15. Takács Zoltán (2013): Felsőoktatási határhelyzetek [Higher Education border situations], Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research.

16. Magyarságkutatás sodrásában [Hungarians Research drift], Gábrity Molnár Irén (ed.) 2016. Subotica: The Scientific Association for Hungarology Research.