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Unequal access to education: the extent, sources, social and economic consequences, policy strategies

A vast number of studies conducted by the OECD and World Bank has well-documented that those countries reforming their educational systems and eliminating a variety of socio-economic barriers causing inequal access to education are today wo…

Principal Investigator:

  • prof. PhDr. Petr Matějů, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

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Social and Institutional Conditionality of Culture Development and Cultural Heritage Maintaining in the Regional Setting and its Exploitation for Effective Organisation of the Regional Cultural Activities

The aim of the project was a discovering of how culture development, cultural activities organization and exploitation are conditioned by social and institutional setting of a region and how to employ this knowledge in the activities of the…

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Themes:

Culture, Regions

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Local and regional studies

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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…

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Themes:

Gender

Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Gender & Sociology

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Understanding of Intergroup Differences in the Discursive Processes of Public Opinion

Understanding the public opinion process in conditions of accelerating social changes is of ever greater urgency. We conceive public opinion as a process and thus as the outcome of discursive processes at three levels: the individual, the g…

Principal Investigator:

Themes:

Public Opinion

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Public Opinion Research Centre

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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:

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Gender & Sociology

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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…

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Themes:

Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Gender & Sociology

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Development interests of border area regions ( Orlicko case)

Differentiation and marginalisation of some social groups is folowed by regionalů differentiation and marginalisation. To map problems on a level of a whole and a region, to discover level of marginalisation of the Czech border area and to…

Principal Investigator:

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Local and regional studies

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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:

Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences

CCK_ODDELENI:

Values and Politics

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The Origins, Nature and Impact of Political Knowledge

This project will examine political knowledge among citizens of the advanced democracies in terms of origins, nature and impact.Origins: The question of why there are differences in level of political knowledge across citizens will be exami…

Principal Investigator:

Themes:

Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Values and Politics

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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:

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Local and regional studies

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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 …

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Themes:

European Union, Gender, Public Policy

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Gender & Sociology

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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:

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Gender & Sociology

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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:

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

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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…

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Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Values and Politics

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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…

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Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Values and Politics

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SECONOMICS - Socio-Economics meets Security

Issued by: Evropská komise, FP7-SEC-2011-285223 Time of researching the project: 2012 – 2015, 36 months (1. 2. 2012 –31.1.2015) Coordinator of the project: Professor Dr. Fabio Massacci, University Trento, ItalyProject coordinator for t…

Principal Investigator:

Themes:

Economy, Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Values and Politics

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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:

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences

CCK_ODDELENI:

Values and Politics

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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:

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Gender & Sociology

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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:

Themes:

Gender

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Gender & Sociology

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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…

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Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Values and Politics

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