Corvinus TDK (institutional level)

In case of papers with co-authors, it is no need each author to register their personal data on the TDK’s online platform.
A joint piece of paper needs to be registered with only one of the author’s name. Then the registered author can add other authors. Then they can search for the name(s) of the co-author(s) from the already registered users and add them.
Falsely selected co-authors can only be deleted by the organizers of TDK during the same period.

The list of available sections will be released on this homepage, under the ‘Sections in English’ accordion, from which the sections should be chosen.
The applications will be forwarded to the Head Secretary assigned to the given section. In addition, the TDK coordinators will modify the section of the paper based on the content of the abstracts. In this case, the author(s) will be informed which section they are assigned to.

Institutional unit: Department of Business Studies
We welcome papers to the section from many areas of business sciences with particular regard to the field of business economics, international business economics, business policy, strategic management, market analysis, competitiveness, sports management, knowledge management, corporate governance, and firm theories. You can find the primary supervisors below, but you are free to contact the instructors with your own ideas. We welcome all types of research, from quantitative to qualitative to mixed. We encourage everyone to proactively contact the instructors with additional questions or contact the section secretary.

Institutional unit: Department of Communication and Media Science
The section invites any empirical or theoretical research on how the media reflects, represents and influences the world; and language and human communications in all kinds of environment and context – by using scientific approaches from the fields of communication and media studies, linguistics or social psychology. Accordingly, the section is open (but is not limited to) papers in the following areas: social, corporate or public communication, language and human communication, psychology of communication, education, media and new media, marketing communication, media literacy, persuasion and rhetoric, framing, verbal and visual metaphor.

Institutional unit: Department of Digital Marketing
The section welcomes all papers that examine the digital aspects of marketing: the spread of online technologies, an innovative approach to the planning, implementation and evaluation of a digital marketing strategy; online customer behavior and related decisions, omnichannel marketing; current content reflecting the challenges of digital marketing, which appear, for example, in the digital marketing activities of small and medium-sized companies or marketing agencies.

Institutional unit: Institute of Economics
We welcome papers to this section in which authors make research in theoretical and/or empirical economics. There is no further specification, any area of economics is welcome.

Institutional unit: Institute of Finance
We welcome papers to this track in which authors make research in empirical and/or theoretical finance. There is no further specification, any area of financial markets is welcome. The professors of the faculty provided some research topics below, however any other research agenda is welcome. This is only a short list to inspire you. Although you can choose other topics and other supervisors as well. Please have a look on our department homepage and the profiles of the colleagues.

Institutional unit: Department of Health Policy
Student papers dealing with any topic related to health economics, pharmacoeconomics, financing healthcare systems, health policy in any country are welcomed.

Institutional unit: Department of Communication and Media Science
This section welcomes research papers, analytical descriptions, and comparative or case studies of inequality issues, global or local, in any historical era, from the ‘caveman’ till yesterday. A significant share of today’s human population does not have full access to basic needs of life, fresh air, potable water, sufficient food, and housing. Proper health-care and education are even less accessible for many. There are considerable inequalities in wealth and income, economic and social circumstances, and access to diverse infrastructures, including communication and media. Thus, inequality is the most crucial issue that social sciences, arts and humanities should explore. The historical perspective provides a deeper understanding of the present for setting the future.

Institutional unit: Department of International Relations
International relations section welcomes papers on inter-state relations, on the role of IOs (universal and/or regional) and other non-state actors in the international system or on impacts of global challenges on international affairs. We invite papers presenting original theoretical and empirical research work in the field of IR, focusing on foreign policy analysis, area studies, security studies or dilemmas of international law.

Institutional unit: Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research
The section covers the entire spectrum of research topics of the announcing organizational unit. Water and energy management are both public services, with many similarities and many differences, with a wide range of applicable regulatory solutions and many connection points in the direction of environmental protection, sustainability, technological development or even business life. Accordingly, within the section, we are also open to a wide range of topics related to water and energy management.

ENERGY MANAGEMENT: The energy economy section covers a wide range of topics related to the energy sector. In our section, we welcome papers analyzing the current affairs of the electricity, gas, oil or heat markets either at the European level, regionally or domestically. The focus of theses can be the analysis of global, European or regional trends, the transformation of markets and the adaptation strategies of sector companies. It is also a suitable choice of topic if the thesis focuses on the illumination of the background of a domestic policy decision, the analysis of an industry segment or even the strategy of a specific company operating in the energy sector.

WATER MANAGEMENT – From tap water to flood: Water in the 21st century is considered a strategic element, there is increasing interest in it, and the social effects resulting from the lack of water and the tilting of predictable environmental conditions are increasingly coming to the fore in connection with climate change. Despite this, the established, classic tools of economics often play a limited role in shaping policy responses to water challenges. That is why we want to attract people interested in this topic.
We are looking for theses that reflect on the challenges through some aspect of the water economy (such as climate change, increasing demands for clean drinking water supplies, pollution of supplies, demographic changes, migration within or across countries…). An appropriate choice of topic is also if the thesis elaborates on the background and impact of a domestic policy decision, or analyzes and explores processes from the point of view of a company / consumer group.

Institutional unit: Department of Political Sciences
We are looking forward to papers with a theoretical, systematic and historical discussion of social reality. We also expect topics that take philosophy in a broad sense, political philosophy, and religious studies. We place great emphasis on conceptual analysis, the examination of meaning transformations, and historical and systematic discussion, which can include ethical, aesthetic, logical, art theory, and theological aspects.

Institutional unit: Department of Public Policy
We welcome papers to the section which study the actors, institutions, processes, mechanism and decisionmaking on different levels (national, regional, European) of governance, and in the public or nonprofit sector in a broad sense, or any public policy area, or policy measure from theoretical or practical perspective applying scientific approaches from the field of economics, public policy, political science, sociology, management studies and other fields of social sciences.

Institutional unit: Department of Sociology

Institutional unit: Department of World Economy
Section World Economy and Europe welcomes all interested in the Scientific Student Conference, and particularly in the fields of world economy and Europe. Hence, in topics related to international trade and finance, international development (development economics), international corporations, international banking organisations; European Union and its member states, regions and alliances within Europe; issues and phenomena of high actuality like digitalisation, industry 4.0, migration, populism, resource curse, COVID-19, Russian-Ukrainian war etc. in an economic and/or European context. With regard to the type of study, all methodologically grounded initiatives are accepted from theoretical to empirical papers. The associates of the Department of World Economy would gladly help as supervisors in case of inquiry (see availabilities and research topic propositions below). For further questions, please contact Section Secretary, Sejla ALMADI.

Participating in the TDK is by submitting a paper based on an individual research study beyond the regular curriculum.
Acceptable papers are those, that haven’t been published, or submitted as a thesis for master degree, or TDK paper before. 
A developed version of a Thesis prepared for a Bachelor degree is acceptable, if it hasn’t been published before (on platforms like TDK or other academic publications). In this case, a clear indication of the history of the paper is mandatory.
The paper must contain the usual elements of an academic paper: 

When submitting the paper each and every author claims and accepts the followings: 

The paper’s suggested range of content (from the first page of the Introduction part to the last page of the Summary) for papers covering topics within the field of:

A4 format, with a margin size 2.5 cm. 
The title ‘Scientific Student’s Associations Conference’ should be written on the front page with the font size 14, as well as the title of the paper, date, name of the author(s), faculty, study program, year and the name of the supervisor. 
Font: Times New Roman; font size: 12 pt; paragraph and line spacing: 1.5; justification 
The page number should be set on the bottom of the page in the middle; starting with the Introduction page with number 1. 
All figures, tables and appendices should be numbered and given titles to. The number, title and source need to be written under each figure (or table). 
All subtitles and subcaptions should be signed with decimal numbers (I. First level of heading; I.2. Second level of heading; I.2.3. Third level of heading). 
In order to highlight some parts of the content (only within reasonable framework) should be done by using cursive (italic) text. Authors should abstain from using bold text (apart from the titles, subtitles) from underlining the text, or applying any other forms of highlighting. 
Tables, figures and other documents, illustrating the concept of the paper, although not serving the essence of the paper, should be included in the Appendix. 
Structure of paper:

After receiving the submitted paper the TDK Office forwards them to the section secretaries. They assign two members for review, whose task is to evaluate the paper with a score ranking from 0–30 based on specific criterias on the format and content. The person for review raises two questions regarding the topic of the paper in a composed inscription, to which the author would answer at the oral conference before a committee. If the sum of scores given by both members of review doesn’t reach 36, then the author of the paper cannot participate at the oral conference. Authors can access the obtained reviews. When they reach the minimal score of 36, they can further on prepare for the oral conference based on the six highest ranking. 
The committee’s review will be available on the registrational platform (each participant will be able to find their own at their paper).
The Students Scientific Committee can sanction with disqualification those who: