Ildikó Ernszt

Ildikó Ernszt works as a senior lecturer and researcher at the University of Pannonia, Faculty of Economics. From 2002-2011 she taught Public International Law at Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church, Faculty of Law. She received law degree from the  University of Pécs (MA) in 2001. She continued her postgraduate studies in Economics for Lawyers at the University of West Hungary, Faculty of Economics. She received her PhD degree in International Law at the University of Pécs, Faculty of Law in 2007. The topic of her doctoral thesis was the “security of civil aviation.” She was a scholar of the University of Vienna, the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy, the Hague Academy of International Law, the Academy of European Law in Florence, the Xiamen Academy of International Law.

Research at iASK

Empty Words or Real Cooperation? – Cooperation Between Cities

The overall aim of the research is to support the renewal of the Association of Pannonian Cities as well as to identify the current problems and to formulate a unified subregion/alliance. As the result of the research, a unified and intensively cooperating subregion/alliance can be formulated. The aim is that a joint regional development could start with the cooperation of the cities where all the involved municipalities can gain specific benefits. An important criterion of the cooperation is to create win-win situations, therefore the aim is to generate and activate new cooperation interfaces.

As first step in my theoretical research I study the different types of city alliances, further I examine the emergence of different „subregions”. I make individual structured interviews with the decision-makers of the involved settlements and some important documents of the cities relating to their improvement will be analysed. With the help of the interviews my aim is to define and prioritize the important areas for improvement in case of the involved settlements as well as to reveal the problems. As a result of the document analysis and the interviews a summary will be prepared about the common regional development opportunities that are equally important for all the studied settlements. Further strategic objectives will be formulated – on these grounds future operational tasks can be determined in order to achieve certain objectives.