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We Defend Women's Rights in the Czech Republic

The aim of the project was to advance gender equality at the institutional level, in the labour market, in the family and in society. The Centre's activities focused primarily on the establishment and functioning of the Gender Expert Chambe…

Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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Equilibrium between Women and Men

Project reacts to discrimination of women in their access to decision-making and to inadequate reflection of their needs (gender mainstreaming). The project will explore link between both problems. The aim of the  project is a system chang…

Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

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Economic Impacts of Motherhood from a Lifelong Perspective

Quantification of lifelong economic impacts of motherhood on women and identification of their causes will lead to revision of relevant public policies and employer practices. Recommendations will be targeted at decision-makers and the publ…

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Topics:

Economy, Gender, Work, Parenting

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

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Changes of working life quality

AnotationThe project is focused on the analysis of changes in the quality of working life, and on the implementation of an already developed methodology of its continuous observation. Outputs: 1. A publication analyzing the state and trends…

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Topics:

Work, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Public Opinion Research Centre

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TRansforming Institutions by Gendering contents and Gaining Equality in Research

TRIGGER has been designed with the general aim of consolidating the many and valuable results of the process initiated by the EC since more than ten years now in the domain of gender and science, and contributing to take this same process o…

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Topics:

Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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Strengtheninng the European dimension of Czech research through representing the CR in ERA related expert groups and through a transformation of research organization to achieve gender balance

The "structural change" component of the project aims to implement cultural and institutional change at the Institute of Chemical Technology Prague (ICT).  The ICT is a higher education institution with a highly developed international coo…

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Members of the project team:

  • Mgr. Hana Víznerová

Topics:

European Union, Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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Support for international cooperation in mentoring: networking and research

Building on a mentoring project for secondary school female students focused on de-stereotyping fields of research, carried out by the National Contact Centre for Women and Science since 2009, the goal of the present project is to create a …

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Topics:

European Union, Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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Protestors in Context: An Integrated and Comparative Analysis of democratic citizenship in the Czech Republic

De Tocqueville (1835) theorised that the exercise of citizen power in democracies depends fundamentally on both equality and active participation in public affairs. Consequently, political inequality will arise from differences in participa…

Principal Investigator:

  • Pat Lyons, BA, MA, Ph.D., DSc.

Topics:

Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

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Dynamics of change in Czech society

Project summary:This project will examine the Dynamics of Change in Czech Society using a household panel survey research design. Applying insights from sociology, economics and politics this study will examine five themes: Family life, ti…

Topics:

Housing, Politics and Political Attitudes, Work, Family, Social Inequalities, Education

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

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Changing work and job values in the Czech Republic

Around the world there are various branches of socio-economic research that make work and jobs their focus object of study. This interest has been heightened by the current economic recession, which has increased the risk of unemployment an…

Topics:

Migration and Mobility, Wages and Incomes, Religion and religiosity, Work, Family

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

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Methodology of diversity management and reconciliation of work and private life in the workplace

The aim of the project is creation of certified methodology of diversity management and reconciliation of work and private life in the workplace, which will be usable directly by employers and organizations. This is an innovative interconne…

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Topics:

Gender, Care, Work

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

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Social communication and trust building in the process of selecting a site for a geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste

The aim of the project is to develop and systemize empirical findings and create applicable results that in the form of practical principles and procedures of social communication and participative decision-making will contribute to non-con…

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Topics:

Public Administration, Public Opinion

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Public Opinion Research Centre

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Well-being and the satisfaction of households in CEE countries: linking objective and subjective indicators

The project aims to analyse the links between living conditions and their perceptions in Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak households. After the trends in aggregate indicators of socio-economic development are identified, questions will b…

Topics:

Wages and Incomes, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

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PLATENSO - Building a platform for enhanced societal research related to nuclear energy in Central and Eastern Europe

The objective of PLATENSO is to provide a proposal towards establishing the legal base for a European Entity on Socio-Economic matters linked to nuclear technology and to develop recommendations for research strategies in PLATENSO countries…

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Topics:

European Union, Public Policy

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

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Data sources, research on data quality, standards, and methods of data harmonisation for the purposes of international comparative social research and integration into the CESSDA network

This project aims to strengthen the database and methodological platform of cross-national empirical research in the social sciences. To achieve this aim, the project will (1) ensure the acquisition, expert processing and archiving of data …

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Topics:

Sociological Data

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

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Trust and European Integration – a Comparison between Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.

Czech- Bulgarian Joint Research Project (PPP project), together with Institute for the Research of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia.2011 - 2013.Czech Coordinator: PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldova, CSc Bulgarian Coordina…

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Topics:

European Union

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

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Local governments in small municipalities and their endogenous development potential

The project focuses on the possibilities and limits of local governments in small municipalities in the Czech Republic (less than 2000 inhabitants) to influence the situation in the community and to make use of its endogenous development po…

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Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

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The Implementation of the International Documentation Standard DDI and the New Technology for Management and Dissemination of the Data at the Sociological Data Archive

The aim of the project is to implement the international stardard for data documentation called Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), to apply NESSTAR tecnology in Sociological Data Archive (SDA) of the Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sci…

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Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

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Historical Milestones in Border-Region Identities in Western Bohemia – Bavaria – How Czechs and Germans Define Themselves and Perceive One Another as Immediate Neighbours

This sociological study of the populations in the neighbouring border regions of Bavaria and Western Bohemia involves research from the perspective of biographic narratives in order to search for differences and similarities in the mentalit…

Principal Investigator:

  • Doc. PhDr. Václav Houžvička, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

International Project

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The Challenge of Socio-economic Cohesion in the Enlarged European Union

The proposed research project, which is structurally based on the comparative analysis of the role of social capital and civil society in achieving the goals of development policy through stimulating social partnerships and improving levels…

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Work – Life Balance from the Perspective of Gender Relations and Social and Employer Policies in the Czech Republic

The project makes a comprehensive study of the conditions for achieving work – life balance in Czech society. It focuses on the legislative, social, political, institutional, employer and individual aspects of how individuals, couples, an…

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Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

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Parenthood after Partners Break Up – Parental Roles and the Identity of Divorced Mothers and Fathers

The subject of the project is a sociological study of parenthood in the Czech Republic after partners break up as experienced on the one hand by the mothers who have been granted custody of the child (children) and on the other hand by the …

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Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

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CESSDA.CZ The CESSDA Project: Building a CESSDA-ERIC focal point in the Czech Republic and integrating it into the large pan-European research infrastructure of data services for socio-economic research

The main objective of this project is to build the Czech node of the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) and to ensure Czech participation in the establishment and operation of this European distributed research inf…

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Topics:

Research Methodology, Sociological Data

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

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