TARKI conducts research on a wide range of issues related to social stratification, labor markets, income distribution, consumption and lifestyle patterns and attitudes, focusing increasingly on market research applications. The TARKI Group contains a for-profit shareholding company and a nonprofit consortium, whose membership is comprised of social science research departments at universities and academic and nonacademic research centers. Social research- consultancy; software development; conducting surveys and opinion polls; producing strategy papers, microsimulation databases, monitoring reports and business cycle research reports based on enterprise samples-is TARKI's most important activity. The center has a nationwide interviewer network that carries out some 60 surveys a year for clients including government agencies, research funds, international organizations and private companies. The TARKI Social Science Databank archives, stores and publishes these surveys. Recently TARKI, together with CVVM (Prague), CBOS (Warsaw) and PMCG (Brussels), founded the Central European Opinion Research Group (CEORG) for joint surveys.

Szazadveg is a nonprofit organization that conducts political and economic research and advisory/training activities. The center, which is independent of the government and all political parties, endeavors to publish research results for the public at large, in addition to rendering professional services to support decision making by economic institutions, political and civil organizations, political parties and the government.

LGI is an international development, policy research, and grant-giving organization within the Open Society Network. Its mission is to promote democratic and effective government, primarily in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. LGI supports public administration reform, decentralization, improvements in governance techniques, and public policy formulation.

IEHAS is committed to the international standards of fundamental and applied research in economics. It has focused increasingly on the analysis of the contemporary market economy and the transformation of the Hungarian economy. The findings of the research programs of IEHAS are made available for and are regularly used by policy-making bodies and universities. IEHAS puts emphasis on promoting academic cooperation with other Hungarian and European research centers. It also considers as a priority the development of stronger links with university departments and taking part in the education of the next generation of researchers. IEHAS conducts research in eight thematic areas: (1) macroeconomics and economic policy; (2) public and institutional economics; (3) human resources; (4) income formation and private consumption; (5) microeconomics and sector economics; (6) research and development; (7) mathematical economics; and (8) history of economic thought.

IWE's predecessor was the Afro-Asian Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which conducted research on developing countries. IWE has extended these research activities to cover the entire global economy. IWE's priority areas of research in recent years are (1) global economic development and transformation (growth and globalization, sustainable development, international capital and labor markets, and the role of transnational companies); (2) economic developments in Europe, with special attention paid to the EU and its eastern enlargement (development paths and modernization and key integration processes); (3) economic transformation in Central Europe and Eastern Europe (changing pattern of the East-West division of labor, impact of foreign direct investment, and regional cooperation); and (4) new economic developments and regional cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region (lessons drawn from the Far Eastern economic development, Japan's transformation rather than crisis, the Chinese Diaspora and the possibilities for a "Chinese Common Market," and ASEM). Other key research areas include the impact of socio-economic values on development patterns; possible development scenarios in Latin America; micro-level adjustment and cooperation; the role of infrastructure and services in the modernization process; the main factors of international competitiveness; and sector-specific studies.

Established in the image of the US Natural Resources Defense Council, EMLA has grown into a public interest legal advocacy office where Hungarian environmental legal experts engage in both litigation and research covering local, national, regional and international spheres. EMLA, a membership organization, also has a scientific branch coordinating multidisciplinary approaches (involving businesses, students and professionals) to address Hungary's pressing environmental needs. Its mission is to create and implement legal and management mechanisms to promote environmental reform and sound policy in a democratic, free market Hungary.