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Research centre for domestic and gender-based violence (ReCeGe)

The project Research centre for domestic and gender-based violence (ReCeGe) will start in January 2022 and end at the end of December 2023. Its core focus is on the establishment of the Research centre for domestic and gender-based violence…

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Gender, Interpersonal Relations

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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Digitalisation in the Labour Market: Challenges, Opportunities and Inequalities for Older Workers

The gradual digitalisation of the economy and the inception of Industry 4.0 eliminate routine jobs at the expense of more flexible and creative positions. However, these processes towards the digital economy make new demands on workers, who…

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Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

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Diversity of childcare attitudes and parenting practices: Their sources and outcomes

This project systematically explores a variation in attitudes to childcare and parental practices in the Czech Republic, with a comparative perspective. In contemporary developed societies, an ‘intensive parenting’ model, which places h…

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Gender, Parenting, Family

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Value Orientations in Society

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RESISTIRÉ (RESpondIng to outbreakS through co-creaTIve inclusive equality stRatEgies)

Project aimThe aim of RESISTIRÉ is to 1) understand the impact of COVID-19 policy responses on behavioural, social and economic inequalities in the EU27, Serbia, Turkey, Iceland, and the UK on the basis of a conceptual gender+ framework, a…

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Gender, Civil Society, Work, Parenting, Social Inequalities, Public Policy, Health

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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The History and Future of Czech Housing Estates

Post-war housing estates (HEs) represent an important part of the housing stock in postsocialist countries and their development over the past decades is often discussed. Yet, in spite of relatively rich research evidence based on case stud…

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  • Mgr. Jana Kočková

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Housing, City and Village

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

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Supporting transparency of the mortgage market in the Czech Republic by extension of the database for residential property value appraisal

The general goal of the project is to support transparency of the mortgage market and reduction of potential systemic risks in the financial sector by: (1) the comparison and evaluation of the deviations between appraisal prices and market …

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Housing

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

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UniSAFE

Combatting gender-based violence is a key area of the EU Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025 which states that the EU needs “comprehensive, updated and comparable data for policies … to be effective”, and that “the data should be dis…

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International Project

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Issues, Leaders, Candidates and the Media in the Czech Parliamentary Election of 2021

This project will examine the impact of party (issue) competition and election campaigning on electoral behaviour during the 2021 Czech parliamentary elections. This research will study the growing importance of issues and party leaders in …

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Elections and Electoral Research

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

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International mobility of researchers of the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences II

The aim of the project is the implementation of 3 mobilities of junior and senior researchers and mobility of technical and administrative staff of the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, at foreign research institution…

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Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

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Local and regional studies

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Možnosti a limity sociálně a environmentálně udržitelného participativního bydlení v ČR

V rámci projektu hledáme řešení, které spojuje přínosy adaptačních opatření ekologické výstavby s přínosy pro-environmentálního komunitního životního způsobu obyvatel, utváří kvalitní bydlení a živé město, rozv…

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Housing

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

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Socioeconomics of Housing

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Gendering the pandemic: redefinition of care as a consequence of the COVID-19 crisis?

The measures to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and the economic “freezing” and recession of the global economy afterwards incur important social and economic costs that are distributed unequally among different soc…

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Gender, Care, Parenting, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

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Electronic Lexical Database of Indo-Iranian Languages. Pilot module: Persian

The project aims to develop a teaching and learning tool of the Indo-Iranian languages at both academic and practical levels. The main objectives are 1) to create a free access electronic lexical database of Persian, and 2) to create a mobi…

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  • Mgr. Mona Khademi

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Culture

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Press and Publications Department

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WITH YOU*TH towards and active citizenship

Projekt si klade za cíl prosadit genderovou rovnost jako součást výchovy k demokratickékultuře a rovnosti všech lidí. Systémovou změnou bude prosazení genderové rovnosti jakosoučást vzdělávacího kurikula, a to prostřednict…

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Gender, Civil Society, Education

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Other

Department:

Gender & Sociology

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Possibilities and conditions of ISPV innovation

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Gender, Wages and Incomes, Care, Parenting

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

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Precarity as a real experience of the self-employed and micro-enterprises.

The main project objective is the support and innovation of Czech entrepreneurial environment with a focus on the self-employed and microenterprises through the analysis and subsequent recommendations to eliminate risks and hindrances relat…

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Gender, Wages and Incomes, Work

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

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AZOLA

A comparative study of working conditions in several European countries has been carried out, focusing on adjustments to working conditions with regard to different stages of the life course. The research took place in the following countri…

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Gender, Care, Work, Parenting, Social Policy

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

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Factors for reoffending and the process of desistance in the context of conditional release

The aim of the project is to make the tools and means of criminal policy, which lead to reducing reoffending, more effective. The research goal is to identify individual and social factors that significantly contribute to desistance. On thi…

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Criminality

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Value Orientations in Society

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ESS-SUSTAIN-2

Cílem projektu bylo rekrutací respondentů z ESS Round 10 (2020-22) vytvořit CROss-National Online Survey 2 (CRONOS-2) - první pravděpodobnostní mezinárodní webový panel. Harmonizované mezinárodní a národní výzkumy probíhaly…

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Trust/Social Cohesion, Economy, Internet, Climate Change, Research Methodology, Family, Social Policy, Health, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Value Orientations in Society

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The European Family Support Network - Eurofamnet

This Action builds collaborative pathways between researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, children and families, public and private agencies, and general society to create the necessary framework that allows informing family policies and…

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Care, Family, Social Policy

Contracting authority:

Internal Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

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Who cares in Europe?

COST Action Who Cares in Europe? aims to define and develop an emerging research field that explores the relationships among voluntary associations, families and states in the creation of social welfare in Europe.It focuses on the question …

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International Project

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Public(s), education and education policy: values, attitudes, reasoning and experience

Anotace projektuProjekt je zaměřený na komplexní šetření názorů obecné populace, populace rodičů dětí ve věku 5 až 20 let a profesní veřejnosti, učitelů a ředitelů, ohledně vzdělávání a vzdělávacích politik. Z…

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Value Orientations, Education

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Public Opinion Research Centre

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The Reconfiguration of Political Landscape - Explaining Independent Candidates Lists in Elections to Municipal Councils in the Czech Republic

The project focuses on an alternative form of representation on the local level which are independent (local) lists (ILLs). ILLs have been part of many established democracies as well as of new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe for …

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Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Elections and Electoral Research

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

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Utváření a performance občanství skrze dluhy v České republice

Projekt se zaměřuje na to jak veřejné a soukromé diskurzy dluhu stejně jako praktické využívání půjček ovlivňuje občanství těch, kteří jsou předlužení. K občanství přistupujeme jako k multidimenzionální, vnitřně…

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Debts

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

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Instagramming the Self: Gender norms, authenticity strategies and influencer culture

The aim of the project is to explore how the notion of authenticity is perceived, (re)produced and (re)constructed by female Instagram influencers.The notion of authenticity has gained prominent place in the latest research on social media…

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Gender, Identity, Media, Research Methodology, Consumption, Technology

Contracting authority:

Internal Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

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Certification-Award Systems to Promote Gender Equality in Research (CASPER)

The CASPER aimsThe Horizon 2020 CASPER project will examine the feasibility of establishing a European award/certification system for gender equality with a focus on the organizational level. Based upon an extensive assessment of available …

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Gender, Sociology of Sciences, Public Policy

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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