The doctoral (PhD) schools of these universities offer research topics in OR within mathematics, computer science, informatics and engineering.
While subsequent conferences were organized on a regular basis the official formation of the Hungarian Operations Research Society (HORS) dates to 1991.
HORS recognizes the long lasting, successful and influential OR activities of its members by awarding the "Egerváry memorial plaquette" to at most one person a year.
Hungarian operations researchers organized a series of Mathematical Programming Conferences in Mátrafüred and Mátraháza (Hungary) in the period of 1970 and 1980.
The society contributes to the maintenance of the Central European Journal of Operations Research (CEJOR).