Andrea SOLYOM currently works as assistant professor at Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (Social Science Department, Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania). She received her PhD from the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest in 2012 with a thesis on political culture of Transylvanian high school and university students. The author’s fields of interest are political sociology and the sociology of youth, starting to do empirical research on youth and politics since 1997. While teaching rural sociology-related subjects, another field of interest emerged since 2005: farming and rural development in European context.