Finished projects

Political and Legal Institutional Framework of the Czech Republic and its Changes in the Context of the Accession to the EU. Project supported within the program Modern Society by the Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic …

FEMCIT: Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Impact of Contemporary Women’s Movement

While several social movements have contributed to social change in Europe during the last four decades, the goal of FEMCIT is to investigate the role of women’s movements in these transformative processes. FEMCIT will explore the r…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Hana Hašková, Ph.D.

Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Women in Czech science – the Position of Women in the Structures of the Academy of Sciences of the CR between 1953 – 2000 (AS CR)

The subject matter of this sociologically oriented project is the research of professional and life trajectories of women in this scientific institution. The core of the project is a sociological analysis of the structures and dynamics of p…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Marie Čermáková

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Regional councils in a European perspective

An important part of multi-level governance, regional self-administration has undergone many changes in recent decades both in the old and new democracies, with European integration playing a major role. In the Czech Republic regional self-…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Daniel Čermák, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

PhDr. Daniel Čermák, Ph.D.

Topics:

Regions

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Articulations of science policies in research practice and academic path

Science and research are increasingly becoming subject to managerial visions and procedures. Building on an international research project Knowledge, institutions and gender: an East–West comparative study (FP 6, 2006–2008, EC) this pro…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Tereza Stöckelová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

The Building of the Archive of Sociological Data

Thanks to the project, SDA has developed into an infrastructure that is able to provide data and other services on a standard level for non-commercial social research and teaching. The project systematically created conditions for activitie…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

National researcher and consultant in the IREX project: The formation of party system and the consolidation of democracy in East Central Europe, Project holder Prof. Herbert Kitschelt, Duke University, Durham, N.C., USA., 1993-1995.

Deputies and Senators of the Parliament CR in the Third Term

The project of a research into the Members and Senators of the CR Parliament in its third term was a part of long-term monitoring of a development of the new Czech parliamentarianism and new political elite. It was continuous with the resea…

Principal Investigator:

doc. PhDr. Lubomír Brokl

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

In Brűssel angekommen? Die gewerkschaftliche Interessenvertretung der neuen Mitgliedsländer auf EU-Ebene (2006 – 2008), international research project, coordinator: H. Pleines, Forschungstelle Osteuropa an der Universität Bremen. National…

Obstacles and opportunities: factors influencing the decisions of Czech scientists about the return to the Czech Republic from abroad

The aim of the project is to analyze all types of factors, which shape decision-making of Czech scientists and researchers who reside occupationally abroad whether they come back to the Czech Republic or not. The project addresses (through …

Principal Investigator:

doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

National Contact Centre - Women and Science III.

A follow-up grant, the activities the Center develops fall into two basic lines. The first is to support women researchers' participation in European research, promote equal opportunities in science and research and support early career …

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Mgr. Kateřina Cidlinská
Mgr. et Mgr. Hana Tenglerová
PhDr. Marta Vohlídalová, Ph.D.

Topics:

European Union, Gender, Public Policy

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Governments in Europe – Bringing in the Baltic and East Central European Democracies. 2011 - 2013. Co-ordinators: Torbjörn Bergman (Södertörn University), Wolfgang C. Müller (University of Vienna), Gabriella Ilonszki (Corvinus University of…

Constructions of breadwinning in Czech society after 1989

The project concentrates on the phenomenon of breadwinning in the Czech Republic after 1989 which has not been so far systematically researched in Czech sociology and which is firmly linked to many areas of social reality, especially to…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Hana Maříková, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Changes in partnership and family forms and arrangements from the life course perspective

In the last two decades, there have been major changes in the forms of private (partnership and family) life in the Czech Republic (CR). Several research projects focused on their patterns we will add a life course perspective to perform th…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Hana Hašková, Ph.D.

Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Citizenship, Publics and the Constitution for Europe: The Czech Republic, Germany, Latvia and Poland in European Integration (ConstEPS)

Coordinated by University of Bremen/FB 8Institute of Political ScienceJean Monnet Centre for European Studies (CEuS)Professor Dr. Ulrike LiebertHomepage: www.monnet-centre.uni-bremen.de Research Project, funded by VolkswagenFoundation in th…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

RSS Project 101/1996 "Social Partnership as a Form of Institutional Mediation of Interests in Czech and Slovak Society" (1996-1998). Coordinator

NEWGOV - New Modes of Governance

The aim of this Integrated Project is to produce a deeper conceptual, empirical and normative understanding of all aspects of governance within and beyond Europe, giving special attention to the emergence, execution, evaluation and evolutio…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

“Social Apathy and Trust in the Civil Society: Czech – Taiwanese Comparison“, PPP Czech-Taiwanese Joint Research Project 2011. Project coordinator for the Czech part.

SummaryThe positive role of civil society, such as the contribution to the regime change and to the consolidation of democracy is highlighted in numerous literatures. However, until today, fewer authors were concentrating on the systematic …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Topics:

Trust/Social Cohesion

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Europeanization of Political Representation in the Czech Republic

This research project adresses central questions within the study of parliamentary representation in the Czech Republic. Our study is focused on three themes: (1) Parlamentarians - who are Czech republic's political representatives and how …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

The Context of Changes in the Labour Market and Forms of Private, Family and Partner Life in Czech Society

The objective of the project is to identify the main changes in the labour market and to study their context and impact on the organisation of private life among Czech people. The project focuses on the changing forms of partner and family …

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Radka Dudová, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Creation of the Czech node of the pan-European project of the large research infrastructure European Social Survey (ESS – survey)

The main aim of the ESS – survey project is creation of the national node of the ESS ERIC (www.europeansocialsurvey.org) in the Czech Republic and the realization of the fifth, sixth and seventh round of ESS survey. The European Social Su…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. et Mgr. Klára Plecitá, Ph.D.

Topics:

Value Orientations, Intergenerational Relations, Interpersonal Relations, Family, Age and Aging, Public health, Lifestyle

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Values and Politics

A Comparative Analysis of Family Support in Central and Eastern Europe. The Model Family Method

There is today no definitive agreement among social scientists about the nature of family policies in Central and Eastern European countries(CEE). Often national family policies are evaluated using general macro-level criteria, where the fi…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Eva Mitchell

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Information Needs Analysis: What Do You Want to Know about the European Union?

The aim of the project was to discover: what are the EU information sources used by citizenswhether or not they look for this type of information themselveswhether or not they consider the information they receive pertaining to the EU trust…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Employment Problems and Industrial Relations in Central Europe. After the System Transformation: Focusing on the Czech Republic. Bilateral Czech-Japanese Project, supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), head of the Czech…

Legitimacy of the Political System and Inequalities: The Development in the Czech Republic in Comparative Perspective

The project aims to increase the knowledge about the perceptions of the relation between the political and distributive systems legitimacy. It also focuses on problems of social inequalities and social capital. The instruments used and the …

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Lukáš Linek, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

Political and Legal Institutional Framework of the Czech Republic and its Changes in the Context of the Accession to the EU. Project supported within the program Modern Society by the Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic …

FEMCIT: Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Impact of Contemporary Women’s Movement

Women in Czech science – the Position of Women in the Structures of the Academy of Sciences of the CR between 1953 – 2000 (AS CR)

Regional councils in a European perspective

Articulations of science policies in research practice and academic path

The Building of the Archive of Sociological Data

National researcher and consultant in the IREX project: The formation of party system and the consolidation of democracy in East Central Europe, Project holder Prof. Herbert Kitschelt, Duke University, Durham, N.C., USA., 1993-1995.

Deputies and Senators of the Parliament CR in the Third Term

In Brűssel angekommen? Die gewerkschaftliche Interessenvertretung der neuen Mitgliedsländer auf EU-Ebene (2006 – 2008), international research project, coordinator: H. Pleines, Forschungstelle Osteuropa an der Universität Bremen. National…

Obstacles and opportunities: factors influencing the decisions of Czech scientists about the return to the Czech Republic from abroad

National Contact Centre - Women and Science III.

Governments in Europe – Bringing in the Baltic and East Central European Democracies. 2011 - 2013. Co-ordinators: Torbjörn Bergman (Södertörn University), Wolfgang C. Müller (University of Vienna), Gabriella Ilonszki (Corvinus University of…

Constructions of breadwinning in Czech society after 1989

Changes in partnership and family forms and arrangements from the life course perspective

Citizenship, Publics and the Constitution for Europe: The Czech Republic, Germany, Latvia and Poland in European Integration (ConstEPS)

RSS Project 101/1996 "Social Partnership as a Form of Institutional Mediation of Interests in Czech and Slovak Society" (1996-1998). Coordinator

NEWGOV - New Modes of Governance

“Social Apathy and Trust in the Civil Society: Czech – Taiwanese Comparison“, PPP Czech-Taiwanese Joint Research Project 2011. Project coordinator for the Czech part.

Europeanization of Political Representation in the Czech Republic

The Context of Changes in the Labour Market and Forms of Private, Family and Partner Life in Czech Society

Creation of the Czech node of the pan-European project of the large research infrastructure European Social Survey (ESS – survey)

A Comparative Analysis of Family Support in Central and Eastern Europe. The Model Family Method

Information Needs Analysis: What Do You Want to Know about the European Union?

Employment Problems and Industrial Relations in Central Europe. After the System Transformation: Focusing on the Czech Republic. Bilateral Czech-Japanese Project, supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), head of the Czech…

Legitimacy of the Political System and Inequalities: The Development in the Czech Republic in Comparative Perspective

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