Our members from TÁRKI Social Research Institute were present at the 2025 edition of the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), organized by the European Educational Research Association (EERA) in Belgrade.
Borbála Lőrincz, representing STRIDE, presented research results conducted as part of her PhD work. Under the title “Two Villages, Two Schools, One Inequitable System: A Comparative Analysis of Alternative Processes of Rural Segregation and Their Perceptions”, she carried out a comparative case study of two segregated schools in rural Hungary. Her individual research was combined with STRIDE’s results and findings on equalizing measures targeting Roma and low-SES pupils in the Central and Eastern European region.
As part of STRIDE’s subproject focusing on policies and research concerning Roma children in Europe, TÁRKI has collected data on policy initiatives from countries with the largest Roma populations — Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia. These countries have all made efforts to implement desegregation measures since the early 2000s; however, outcomes remain limited due to the lack of systematic evaluations and inconsistent political commitment behind these initiatives.
The 2025 ECER conference provided an excellent opportunity to connect with researchers and practitioners from across Europe, and to discuss how different policy approaches and legislative frameworks can promote greater equity in education.
