Sarolta Németh
Senior Researcher
European regional development and policy, territorial governance and cohesion; territorial cooperation, CBC; inter-organisational networks and regional development; information society, rural development and technology
Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Karelian Institute
sarolta.nemeth@uef.fi | +358 50 442 3099
Sarolta Németh (PhD Social Sciences, University of Joensuu; MA English Language and Literature, ELTE Budapest) is Project Researcher at the Karelian Institute and holds the title of a Docent at the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, UEF. During her early academic career, she focused on the role of technologies and innovation networks in local/regional development, and worked first at the Department of Social and Economic Geography, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary (2000/2001), then at the Department of Geography, University of Joensuu, Finland (2002-2008), and, as a visiting post-doc researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Science, Technology and Society, Graz, Austria (2009/10). At the Karelian Institute, UEF (since 2010), Dr Németh has worked in EU-funded (ESPON, FP7, Horizon2020) research projects; during 2016-2020, she is a coordination team member of RELOCAL (H2020 project) as well as INTERREG Europe project “ECoC-SME”. Her recent topics include territorial cohesion and cooperation, development of border regions, the governance of cohesion policies, local development and participation.
Projects
Publications
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Hatékonyság és demokrácia: helyi kormányzási dilemmák a finn periférián [Efficiency and democracy: Local governance dilemmas on the Finnish periphery]
Németh, Sarolta; Fritsch, Matti. Tér és Társadalom 35 4: 241-259. 2021 -
Imatra-Svetogorsk
Eskelinen, Heikki; Németh, Sarolta; Fritsch, Matti / Critical Dictionary on Borders, Cross-Border Cooperation and European Integration. 2020. 2020 -
JSSJ Meets RELOCAL: Mobilizations, Meaning and Uses of the Concept of Spatial Justice in a European Research Project / JSSJ rencontre RELOCAL: Mobilisations, sens et usages du concept de justice spatiale dans un projet de recherche européen
Blondel, Cyril; Evrard, Estelle; Németh, Sarolta; Noguera, Laura. Spatial Justice 13: 1-13. 2019 -
Impacts of town-twining on the communities of Imatra and Svetogorsk through different fields of cross-border cooperation
Mikhailova, Ekaterina; Nemeth, Sarolta / Twin Cities: Urban Communities, Borders and Relationships over Time. 2019. 2019 -
Local autonomy meets spatial justice: civil-action in urban Kotka / Quand l'autonomie locale rencontre la justice spatiale: l'action citoyenne dans les zones urbaines de la ville Kotka
Nemeth, Sarolta. Spatial Justice 13: 1-23. 2019 -
The Finnish-Russian border as a developmental resource: the case of Imatra and Svetogorsk
Fritsch, Matti; Németh, Sarolta; Eskelinen, Heikki / Twin Cities: Urban Communities, Borders and Relationships over Time. 2019. 2019 -
Cross-border shopping at the EU's Eastern edge: the cases of Finnish-Russian and Polish-Ukrainian border regions
Smetkowski Maciej, Németh Sarolta, Eskelinen Heikki. Europa Regional 24.2016 1/2: 50-64. 2017 -
Cross-Border Cooperation and Interaction between Southeast Finland and its Neighbouring Russian Regions of Leningrad Oblast and St. Petersburg
Németh Sarolta, Fritsch Matti, Eskelinen Heikki. 2015 2015 -
Whose partnership? Regional participatory arrangements in CBC programming on the Finnish-Russian border
Fritsch Matti, Németh Sarolta, Piipponen Minna, Yarovoy Gleb. European Planning Studies [epub ahead of print 19 Oct 2015]: 1-18. 2015 -
Drivers behind the Formation of Cross-border Inter-organisational Cooperation Links: the Case of the Tri-Border Region between Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine
Micsinai István, Németh Sarolta. Review of Sociology of the Hungarian Sociological Association 4: 126-143. 2015