The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) is an agency of the European Union which aims to support the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy, to ensure that Europe achieves smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.

As part of its knowledge base, Eurofound has at its disposal a network of national correspondents, based in all Member States plus Norway.  Since 2018 the Kopint-Tárki Institute for Economic Research has been the national correspondent of Hungary, partnered with  the Kopint Foundation for Economic Research.

• Input from the correspondents allows Eurofound to map and compare regulations, policies and practices in industrial relations, working conditions, labour markets and employment as well as in other social policy related areas. 

• National correspondents report regularly on developments in working life and restructuring, allowing Eurofound to add and update information in its EurWORK and EMCC repositories. The regular nature of reporting generates longer series of observations in some areas, so that trends can be described, for example with regards to pay, working time developments and collective bargaining. National contributions for representativeness studies are provided. 

• The correspondents report on large-scale restructuring cases in their countries and regularly update information on restructuring support and legal instruments. Next to these regular inputs to Eurofound’s products, national correspondents also provide national information related to specific research questions which are either published in a comparative overview or feed into larger-scale research reports. 

• Participating in a European-wide network provides correspondents with a unique opportunity to share their expertise, to contribute to debates and to engage with topics relevant to the EU employment and social policy agenda.

Publications with KOPINT-Tárki contributors:

Palócz, Éva-Eurofound (2025) Hungary: Metadata for the Eurofound database of collective agreements for low-paid workers. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Bogó, Rozália-Eurofound. (2025) Keeping older workers engaged – Country report: Hungary. Working paper. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Eurofound (2025), National-level social governance of the European Semester and the Recovery and Resilience Facility, National social partners and policymaking series, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg. doi:10.2806/2118040
Eurofound (2025) Undeclared care work in the EU: Policy approaches to a complex socioeconomic challenge, Eurofound research paper, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg. doi:10.2806/9489757

–2024–

Eurofound (2024) Paths towards independent living and social inclusion in Europe. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Eurofound (2024), Social protection 2.0: Unemployment and minimum income benefits, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Eurofound (2024), Workplace bullying, harassment and cyberbullying: Are regulations and policies fit for purpose?, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Eurofound (2024), Decarbonisation of residential heating and cooling: The heat pump challenge, Eurofound research paper, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Eurofound (2024), Company practices to tackle labour shortages, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Eurofound (2024), Weathering the crisis: How job retention schemes preserved employment and incomes during the pandemic, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Eurofound (2024), Job quality side of climate change, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Eurofound (2024), Minimum wages in 2024: Annual review, Minimum wages in the EU series, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Eurofound (2024), Social impact of migration: Addressing the challenges of receiving and integrating Ukrainian refugees, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Hárs, Ágnes – Eurofound (2024) Hungary: Developments in working life 2023
Eurofound (2024), Remote work in rural and peripheral areas: Characteristics, challenges and initiatives to support it. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Palócz, Éva – Eurofound (2024), Hungary: Metadata for the Eurofound database of collective agreements for low-paid workers. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Eurofound (2024), Social governance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility: Involvement of the national social partners, National social partners and policymaking series, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Eurofound (2024), Self-employment in the EU: Job quality and developments in social protection, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

— 2023 —
Eurofound (2023), Involvement of social partners in the implementation of national recovery and resilience plans, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg
Hárs, Ágnes – Eurofound (2023) Hungary: Developments in working life 2022. Dublin.
Eurofound (2022), Minimum wages in 2022: Annual review, Minimum wages in the EU series, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Hárs, Ágnes – Eurofound (2022) Hungary: Working life in the COVID-19 pandemic 2021. Dublin.
Eurofound (2022), COVID-19 and older people: Impact on their lives, support and care, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Eurofound (2021), Impact of COVID-19 on young people in the EU, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Kerckhofs, Peter; Krokovay, Nora; Gustafsson, Anna-Karin – Eurofound (2021) Representativeness of the European social partner organisations: Live performance sector, Sectoral social dialogue series, Dublin. Krokovay, Nóra – Eurofound (2021). COVID-19 EU PolicyWatch database – Cases from Hungary.
Krokovay, Nóra – Eurofound (2021): Policy responses from governments and social partners to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hárs, Ágnes – Eurofound (2021) Hungary: Working life in the COVID-19 pandemic 2020. Dublin.