ABSTRACT
A global pandemic affected the type and place of work in several ways. For coworking places it caused disruptions according to direct (e.g. measures) and indirect (e.g. urban outmigration) reasons. The present chapter focuses on how coworking places in Hungary choose different adaptation strategies to deal with the unprecedented challenge that COVID-19 accounted for. It gives insight into the Hungarian pandemic situation between 2020 and 2022, identifying restrictions and no state financial aid whatsoever which determined the playing field for coworking places. The chapter contains different sections related to the outbreak and the Hungarian coworking landscape as well as coping strategies these alternative workspaces relied on to survive the first two years of the pandemic: location change, size reduction, change of function, and relying on informal networks are the identified ones. © 2023, The Author(s).
ABSTRACT
Two notable scientific events were organized by the Hungarian Regional Science Association in the year 2022 in Hungary. The report presents them in a chronological order. In 2022, Pécs, Hungary was home to the Annual Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA). The ERSA Congress titled "Disparities in a Digitalising (Post-Covid) world – Networks, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development” hosted a large variety of themes in entrepreneurship, socio-economics, regional-urban economics, regional development, and regional policy related topics such as local governance and institutions. A chief ambition of the Congress was to achieve a stronger interdisciplinary dimension, featuring contributions and data from social sciences and entrepreneurship. With approximately 800 participants every year from all continents, ERSA Congresses have become the largest-scale academic conferences in regional science worldwide © 2022, DETUROPE.All Rights Reserved.