TARKI Social Research Institute is an independent research centre located in Budapest, Hungary. TARKI conducts applied socioeconomic research in social stratification, labour markets, income distribution, intergenerational transfers, tax-benefit systems, consumption and lifestyle patterns and attitudes in Hungary and, in the majority of its projects, in Europe. TARKI is closely embedded in international collaborations with major European academic partners in various research projects. Senior staff at TARKI all have PhDs with substantive and methodological interests and many hold professorial appointments at major universities. TARKI has its own fieldwork apparatus, capable of carrying out regular empirical surveys on social structure and on attitudes and of managing large scale international research. TARKI also carries out the Hungarian fieldwork of various high-quality international surveys. Organisation TARKI Social Research Institute is a member of the TARKI Group. Other members of the TARKI Group are: TARKI Foundation KOPINT-TARKI Institute for Economic Research Ltd TARKI Foundation operates the Hungarian national social science data archive and is a member of the Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA). TARKI also conducts regular polls in Hungary. History Profile TARKI's research profile has changed since it was first established. from macro to micro aspects of social stratification and economic activities from a focus on academic research towards applied social science from pure sociological to socio-economic methods In 2005, the institute shifted its focus to European comparative research. Activities related to this account are about half of the Institute's research portfolio. European research projects KIDS4ALLL - Key Inclusive Development Strategies for LifeLongLearning (2021-2024) The project aims to implement a pilot action that will experiment a learning method and learning environment in formal, non-formal and informal educational contexts to address the integration challenges of migrant and Roma children. The learning method builds on knowledge acquisition, skills training and attitude transfer to convey lifelong learning competences as a whole within a collaborative and co-creative learning process. Pioneered - Pioneering policies and practices tackling educational inequalities in Europe (2021-2024) An international research consortium strives to reduce educational inequalities in Europe by determining evidence-based policies and identifying pioneering measures and practices to enhance access to, uptake and completion of education, both in formal and informal educational settings. The project’s innovative approach combines analyses at different levels: from policies to institutions and individual students, teachers and parents. Particular focus will be placed on the specific (dis-) advantages at intersecting axes of inequality, as educational inequalities