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220 Projects

Mikrobiologické občanství mezi antibiotickým a probiotickým režimem

The research project is concerned with trajectories of human-microbial coexistence in the Czech Republic. It builds on three key theoretical concepts of microbiopolitics, (micro)biological citizenship, and situated biologies. It investigate…

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Sociology of Sciences, Health, Environment

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences

CCK_ODDELENI:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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Experiencing Leisure of Older School Age Children as an Educational Challenge

Changes in the leisure participation of the older school age children connected predominantly with the increasing impact of internet and social networks in children lives are one of the challenges of 21th century. Changes in children leisur…

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Media, Lifestyle

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Local and regional studies

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Housing Paths of Millennials: Increasing Tension between Homeownership Normalization and Urban Affordability Crisis in the Czech Republic

The project focuses on research on the recent housing paths of young people (born between 1985 and 2000) who are facing a boom in housing prices and decreasing housing affordability. The goal is to survey the main strategies that young peop…

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Housing

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Socioeconomics of Housing

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Rural amenities transformation and its effects on the rural population

The aim of the project is to provide knowledge on possible deficits of amenities in rural communities, as well as on the importance of such amenities for the local population. The project asks which groups would be hardest hit by loss of so…

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City and Village, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Local and regional studies

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The cumulative effects of social disadvantage on health and the quality of life

The goal of the project is to evaluate the role of socioeconomic conditions on the quality of life and health using a multidisciplinary perspective. In particular, the project aims:to evaluate the effect of work and housing conditions, fami…

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Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

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Nápady do praxe

Main goal of the applied research project is to contribute to success and prosperity of the Czech Republic by supporting higher level of competitiveness and though encouraging the entrepreneurship. Project aims to facilitate the implementat…

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Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

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Level and sources of electoral volatility in post-communist Europe

The project analyses the level and sources of electoral volatility in post-communist countries. This project focuses on individual-level volatility in consecutive parliamentary elections by examining electoral participation and party choice…

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Politics and Political Attitudes, Elections and Electoral Research

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Values and Politics

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Water and soil for landscape, Diversity of life and health of ecosystems, CAS (2019)

The aim of the project was to map social science landscape research in the Czech Republic, to carry out a secondary analysis of landscape research, and to define basic principles, approaches and concepts in the field of landscape research i…

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Environment

Contracting authority:

Internal Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Local and regional studies

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Gender-SMART

Gender-SMART aimsGender-SMART is about achieving gender equality in Research Performing and Research Funding Organizations operating in the agricultural and life sciences research field. This field, essential to humanity and strongly affect…

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International Project

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Gender Equality Academy

Gender Equality Academy aimsThe general goal of the GE Academy project is to develop and implement a coherent and high-quality capacity-building programme on gender equality (GE) in research and innovation (R&I) as well as in Higher Educati…

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International Project

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Residential segregation and mobility of foreign citizens: analysis of neighbourhoods, housing trajectories, and neighbourhood context

The research directly addresses a major challenge for contemporary urban policy: rising inequality and segregation in urban areas. The research examines residential segregation and mobility of foreign citizens with innovative methods and …

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Housing, Identity, City and Village, Migration and Mobility, Public Administration

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Local and regional studies

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Sustainable lifestyles and movements in global and local contexts

The aim of this project is to examine local responses to global environmental problems (climate change, soil degradation, food quality, etc.) in terms of social movements and lifestyles. The research activity is carried out within the frame…

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Value Orientations, Identity, Culture, City and Village, Family, Health, Environment, Lifestyle

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Other

CCK_ODDELENI:

Local and regional studies

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Ecological landscape infrastructure, Diversity of life and health of ecosystems, CAS (2018)

The aim of the project was to analyze strategies, methods and forms of cooperation of environmental organizations of civil society, as well as how they succeed in meeting the goals with which they enter the planning and landscape management…

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Civil Society, Environment

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Other

CCK_ODDELENI:

Local and regional studies

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Social disadvantage in rural peripheries in Czechia and in eastern Germany: opportunity structures and individual agency in a comparative perspective

The general objective of this project is to investigate the multifaceted interrelations between social disadvantage, opportunity structures, and individual agency in rural peripheries in eastern Germany and Czechia in a comparative perspect…

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Migration and Mobility, Regions, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

International Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Local and regional studies

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Transformation processes after 1989 reflected in changes to industrial chemical research institutes

Chemical research and developement (R&D) institutes constituted an important part of the research structure of the centrally planned economies and in general important part of Czechoslovak science prior 1989. During the transformation perio…

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Gender, Sociology of Sciences, Transformation

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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Social stratification in the Czech Republic and Central Europe: 1968-2018

Using historical sources and available datasets of sociological and statistical surveys, the project aims to compare the history of stratification research and the development of social structure in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and S…

Themes:

Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Economic and Religious Studies

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Methodology and reality of poverty: Czech Republic in the European context

The economics of poverty has still not been thoroughly researched in the Czech Republic, although it is a highly relevant topic. Similarly, the international comparability of poverty indicators remains rather unexplained in the European con…

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Economy, European Union, Research Methodology, Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Economic and Religious Studies

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Do-It-Yourself culture and its importance for Czech national and cultural identity: Current situtation in social, cultural, historical and political perspective, typology and potential for regional development

At present, Do-It-Yourself culture (DIY) is generally understood as part of the Czech national identity and a Czech national feature, which reflects the nation´s specific historical experience and national memory. Although DIY as a Czech n…

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Housing, Identity, City and Village

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Socioeconomics of Housing

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

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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Migration and Mobility

Contracting authority:

Other

CCK_ODDELENI:

Economic Department

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Role of Intimacy in the Czech Home Birth Controversy

This project is the first one in Czechia to bring an up-to-date and robust evidence on the key controversial issue of home birth. Attempts to delegalize home birth have recently multiplied and characterize this choice as a threat to the inf…

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  • Mgr. et Mgr. Lenka Formánková, Ph.D.

Themes:

Gender, Parenting, Health

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Gender & Sociology

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Parental Desires and Intentions of Czech Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Men and Women

The project will study parental desires and intentions among LGB individuals from a non-heteronormative standpoint, an under-researched topic in the Czech Republic. A mix of quantitative and qualitative methods will help us explain the fact…

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Gender, Care, Parenting, Family

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Gender & Sociology

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Národní kontaktní centrum - gender a věda 2017-2020

The National Contact Centre for Gender and Science is a unique initiative in the Central European region and serves as the national contact point for gender equality and gender mainstreaming in European research. It provides specific expert…

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  • Mgr. et Mgr. Timea Crofony, MPA
  • Pavla Rypáčková, M.A.
  • Mgr. et Mgr. Hana Tenglerová
  • Kristýna Veitová, MA. et MA.

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Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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Priority půdně biologického výzkumu, průnik vědy a veřejného zájmu (Priorities of soil biological research, intersection of science and public interest)

This project was solved within the framework of the AV21 Strategy in the program: Diversity of Life and Health of Ecosystems (ROZE). Activity Priorities of soil biological research, intersection of science and public interest were solved in…

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Environment

Contracting authority:

Other

CCK_ODDELENI:

Local and regional studies

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Forest as a part of the landscape and a source of knowledge, Diversity of life and health of ecosystems, CAS (2017)

The aim of the project was to involve experts in the public forestry debate and on the basis of scientific knowledge to prepare proposals for the necessary changes to the legislation responding to this new knowledge. The Institute of Sociol…

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Environment

Contracting authority:

Internal Project

CCK_ODDELENI:

Local and regional studies

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Local response to climate change in the Czech Republic: a sociological perspective

The purpose of the project is to contribute to a better understanding of mechanisms, barriers to and potential for introducing new policy instruments for enviromental governance in the Czech Republic, explicating the subjective perception a…

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Public Administration, Environment

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

CCK_ODDELENI:

Local and regional studies

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