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According to governmental level reorganisation, the official host organisation of the research center changed to Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH hereafter), controlled by the ELKH secretariat as financial agency since the 1st of September 2019.

The name of the research center as of September 1, 2019: Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences.

The basic activity of the Research Centre incorporating the Konkoly Thege Miklós Astronomical Research Institute, the Geographical Institute, the Geodetic and Geophysical Institute, the Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, is scientific research in the fields of astronomy and earth sciences (geography, geology, geochemistry, geodesy and geophysics), the operation of the National Seismological Network, exploratory (basic) research and the preparation of its findings for utilisation and publication; theoretical examinations for basic research, measurements at observatory, field and laboratory level, development of scientific instruments and methods, processing and publication of data, maintenance of observatories and, if need be, the establishment of new ones.

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