Finished projects

Ochrana biodiverzity – význam pro českou veřejnost a skupiny zabývající se životním prostředím ((Biodiversity conservation - importance for the Czech public and groups interested in nature and environment)

This project was solved within the framework of the AV21 Strategy in the program: Diversity of Life and Health of Ecosystems (ROZE). The aim of the activity was to map out the value orientations, attitudes, motivations and behavior of sele…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Věra Patočková, M.A., Ph.D.

Topics:

Globalization, City and Village, Regions, Environment

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Local and regional studies

EUENGAGE - Bridging the Gap between Public Opinion and European Leadership: Engaging a Dialogue on the Future Path of Europe

The aim of the project is to investigate the views of European political representatives on the current state of European integration. The survey focuses in particular on the views of members of national parliaments such as you on the abili…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Topics:

Elites, European Union, Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Governments in Europe – Bringing in the Baltic and East Central European Democracies

The project examines the formation of coalition governments, coalition forms, and coalition governance in the ten new EU member states from Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland , …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Volunteering in the Pardubice county

Volunteering is a form of civic engagement in which volunteers devote their time without claiming remuneration to community service or other people. Volunteering involves a large number of informal and activities involving various forms of …

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Josef Bernard, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

RNDr. Mgr. Renáta Mikešová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Civil Society

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Local and regional studies

TEACHENER - Integrating Social Sciences and Humanities into Teaching about Energy

Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences is one of the seven partners in TEACHENER, a project co-financed by the Erasmus+ strategic partnerships programme of the European Commission, which aims to integrate social sciences an…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Martin Ďurďovič, Ph.D.

Topics:

European Union, Sociology of Sciences, Education

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Public Opinion Research Centre

Leisure in Contemporary Society

The project was carried out within the Programme of Support of Perspective Human Resources of the Czech Academy of Sciences.…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Věra Patočková, M.A., Ph.D.

Topics:

Culture, Lifestyle

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Local and regional studies

SERISS, Synergies for Europe's Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences

Europe is facing huge socio-economic challenges: an economic crisis with a young generation in search of jobs, population ageing potentially straining inclusion and innovation of our societies, climate change with its pressures to redesign …

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Topics:

Sociological Data

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

CESSDA SaW, Strengthening and Widening the European Infrastructure for sSocial Science Data Archives

The project follows up a succesful launch of the CESSDA project and concentrates on the sustainability for the widened network and its full European coverage. Coordination, networking activities, and stakeholder forums will be delivered and…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Sociological Data

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

CSDA, Czech Social Science Data Archive

The principal goal of the project is twofold: (1) to support the operation and development of the social science research data infrastructure provided by the Czech Social Science Data Archive (CSDA), and (2) to ensure Czech participation in…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Research Methodology, Sociological Data

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

Market Failure in the Context of Social Housing Provision as a Service of General Economic Interest

The project aims to develop a certified method serving for identification of local housing market failure and its quantification. The method will be applied in municipal applications for state subsidies on social housing investments as…

Principal Investigator:

Ing. Petr Sunega

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing, Public Policy

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Between Home and Nature: Urban Political Ecology of Allotment Gardening in Post-socialist City and Its Urban Impacts

The project focuses on Prague allotments as an empirical example of the changing approach to urban nature and urban planning after the fall of socialism. Allotments represent spaces of affection and care. As urban nature, they are spaces of…

Principal Investigator:

Petr Gibas, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Ing. arch. Irena Boumová, Ph.D.
Mgr. Tomáš Hoření Samec, Ph.D.

Topics:

Housing, City and Village, Lifestyle

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Changes in the Perception of the Role of Government After the Crisis. The Czech Republic in Comparative Perspective

The project offers a comparative perspective of changes in perception of the role of the state and form of responsible governance in the Czech Republic after the financial and economic crisis, which in addition to changing redistributive ex…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Members of the project team:

Doc. PhDr. Lukáš Linek, Ph.D.
doc. PhDr. Petra Guasti, Ph.D., Dr. Habil.
Mgr. Ivan Petrúšek, Ph.D.
PhDr. Daniela Prokschová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Legitimacy, Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Housing Based Welfare: Risks and Implications of Release of Housing Wealth to Support Retirement Income

The project focuses on the future role of housing as an asset for supplementing retirement income, sometimes called asset- (housing-) based welfare (ABW). The interest in this subject is motivated by the process of population ageing. The pa…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Mgr. Martin Lux, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Mgr. Ladislav Kážmér, Ph.D.
Mgr. Martina Mikeszová, Ph.D.
Ing. Petr Sunega

Topics:

Housing, Economy, Social Inequalities, Social Policy, Age and Aging

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Social Networks and Spatial Mobility of Homeless Persons

Program podpory perspektivních lidských zdrojů AV ČR.…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Petr Vašát, Ph.D.

Topics:

Migration and Mobility, Social Capital, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Local and regional studies

The Europeanization of Trade Unions in the Countries of the Eastern Enlargement. Perspectives for Interest Representation by Trade Unions and for Trade Union Solidarity within the EU

The research project analyses the integration of trade unions from the countries of the EU´s Eastern enlargement into EU governance structures. Additionally the project wants to establish which strategies the trade unions follow in their …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Topics:

European Union, Public Policy

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

The application of philosophical hermeneutics to the sociological theory of intersubjectivity

The project is conceived as an interdisciplinary theoretical research on the border between philosophy and sociology with implications for the economic theory of action. Key objectives of the project are: a) analysing and linking up theorie…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Martin Ďurďovič, Ph.D.

Topics:

Sociological Theory

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Public Opinion Research Centre

Survey of Foreigners’ Incomes, Expenditures and Remittances

The principal goal of this project funded by the Czech Statistical Office was to gather quantitative data in order to improve the methodology employed to estimate the remittances made by migrants. The primary task of the project implemented…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Yana Leontiyeva, Ph.D.

Topics:

Economy, Migration and Mobility, Wages and Incomes

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

Social Enterprises in the Pardubice county

The general objective of the project is to obtain up-to-date information on the state of social entrepreneurship in the Pardubice Region, its possible perspectives and possibilities of support from the territorial self-government and the st…

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Josef Bernard, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

RNDr. Mgr. Renáta Mikešová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Economy, Social Policy, Public Administration

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Local and regional studies

Configurations of Elderly Care in the CR: Labour, love and money

The project examines the changing understanding of the responsibility for care and the impact this has on the current configurations of elderly care in the Czech Republic. It aims to analyse the forms and implications of monetary transfers …

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Radka Dudová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Gender, Care, Family, Age and Aging

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Intersectionality in sociological research of social inequalities and the impact of the economic crisis on employment

The aim of the project is to develop an intersectional approach to the study of social inequalities in Czech sociology. Intersectionality, as a theoretical framework and analytical tool to understand inequalities in society, will be used to…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Alena Křížková, Ph.D.

Topics:

Gender, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Time and Space of Homeless Persons in a Post-socialist City: A Comparison of Prague and Pilsen

The project focuses on the time and space of homeless persons in relation to conditions of a post-socialistic city. Its goal is to describe characteristics, life and time-space paths and everyday life of homeless people in the context of tw…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Petr Vašát, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

RNDr. Martin Šimon, Ph.D.
PhDr. Markéta Horpeniaková, Ph.D.
Doc. PhDr. Josef Bernard, Ph.D.
Petr Gibas, Ph.D.
Mgr. Hana Daňková

Topics:

Housing, City and Village, Regions, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Medicine Multiple: Ethnography of the interfaces between biomedical and alternative therapeutic practices

The project is concerned with the integrations of, and conflicts and passages between biomedicine and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Drawing upon medical anthropology, science and technology studies and the sociology of medic…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Tereza Stöckelová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Socio-spatial disadvantage of inhabitants in peripheral rural regions

The project addresses the issue of social disadvantage of inhabitants of peripheral rural regions.Social disadvantage usually entails a spatial component. The spatial concentration of social disadvantage, exclusion and deprivation and the s…

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Josef Bernard, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

City and Village, Regions, Social Inequalities, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

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…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Marta Vohlídalová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Ochrana biodiverzity – význam pro českou veřejnost a skupiny zabývající se životním prostředím ((Biodiversity conservation - importance for the Czech public and groups interested in nature and environment)

EUENGAGE - Bridging the Gap between Public Opinion and European Leadership: Engaging a Dialogue on the Future Path of Europe

Governments in Europe – Bringing in the Baltic and East Central European Democracies

Volunteering in the Pardubice county

TEACHENER - Integrating Social Sciences and Humanities into Teaching about Energy

Leisure in Contemporary Society

SERISS, Synergies for Europe's Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences

CESSDA SaW, Strengthening and Widening the European Infrastructure for sSocial Science Data Archives

CSDA, Czech Social Science Data Archive

Market Failure in the Context of Social Housing Provision as a Service of General Economic Interest

Between Home and Nature: Urban Political Ecology of Allotment Gardening in Post-socialist City and Its Urban Impacts

Changes in the Perception of the Role of Government After the Crisis. The Czech Republic in Comparative Perspective

Housing Based Welfare: Risks and Implications of Release of Housing Wealth to Support Retirement Income

Social Networks and Spatial Mobility of Homeless Persons

The Europeanization of Trade Unions in the Countries of the Eastern Enlargement. Perspectives for Interest Representation by Trade Unions and for Trade Union Solidarity within the EU

The application of philosophical hermeneutics to the sociological theory of intersubjectivity

Survey of Foreigners’ Incomes, Expenditures and Remittances

Social Enterprises in the Pardubice county

Configurations of Elderly Care in the CR: Labour, love and money

Intersectionality in sociological research of social inequalities and the impact of the economic crisis on employment

Time and Space of Homeless Persons in a Post-socialist City: A Comparison of Prague and Pilsen

Medicine Multiple: Ethnography of the interfaces between biomedical and alternative therapeutic practices

Socio-spatial disadvantage of inhabitants in peripheral rural regions

We Defend Women's Rights in the Czech Republic

Equilibrium between Women and Men

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