The Atelier – Department of European Historiography and Social Sciences at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest highlights the historicity of the city, and the historical and socio-cultural aspects of urban development. This emphasis explains why there is a close relationship between Atelier and the associated members that offer internships to TEMA students. The TEMA teaching staff in Budapest consists of specialists in the fields of urban history, urban and regional development, and national identities, who have an excellent command of French and/or English. Some of them studied or carried out research in a French HEI, mostly at EHESS. They also participate in the work of the various research groups hosted by Atelier, whose research topics are related to new approaches and sources for studying the process of Hungarian nation-building in the 19th century and the spatial frameworks of the history of identity.

Gábor Czoch was born in 1965 in Budapest. He defended his dissertation in 1999, after completing his doctoral studies in co-tutelle at the University ELTE in Budapest and EHESS of Paris in the field of urban history of Hungary. He served as director of the Center for Studies of Central Europe from 2000 until its closure in 2006. He has been teaching at ELTE since 1998 at Atelier – Department for European Historiography and Social Sciences. Since 2008, Gábor Czoch has served as the editor-in-chief of Korall, a Hungarian social sciences periodical. His research primarily concerns the field of urban history. His most recent book focuses on urbanization and social changes of the bourgeoisie of Hungary in the first half of the 19th century (A városok szíverek. Pozsony, 2009).