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| International co-operation and contacts
The Great Plain Research Institute has had a decade-long formal and informal connections with several European and overseas research institutes. The co-operations materialise in jointly organised researches, regular international seminars and joint publications. The most traditional connection – with is laid down in the work plan of the HAS – has been created with the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organisation of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In the seminars organised biannually, the researchers of the two institutes look at, with comparative methods, the territorial, settlement, economic and regional processes of both countries. The connection with the Central European Institute of the Japanese Chiba University goes back to more than a decade, and is based on common researches. Presently the comparative, empirical study of the scattered settlements in the two countries is being carried out. Together with the French CNRS, the transformation of the Central and Western European agricultural regions and villages is examined. Also, the connections to Dutch, Finnish, Swiss, Austrian and German counterparts are worth noting. Judit Tímár is a member of the advisory board of the editorial at the periodical called “European Urban and Regional Studies”. The Institute if often visited, and not only in the framework of formal exchange connections, by foreign researchers, experts and university groups. Recognised professors are invited yearly to present lectures, and international symposia are also organised biannually. In 1998, the Institute organised already the 11th Hungarian–Polish Geographical Seminar. The principal partners of the Institute are
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