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16 Projects

A Mobile Society: Opportunities and Risks of New Forms of Mobility for Czech Society and Economy

 Program: Johannes Amos Comenius Programme (P JAC), call: Social Sciences and Humanities: Man and Humanity in the Global Challenges of Today Acronym: AMOS No: CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008717 Three research institutions coope…

Topics:

Economy, Gender, City and Village, Migration and Mobility, Wages and Incomes, Work, Regions, Social Inequalities, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Project Duration:

2025 - 2028

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Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities: East-Central Europe Case Study

This project contributes to the recent political and scholarly debate on the social and political consequences of spatial inequalities. Growing inter-regional disparities within EU countries have been described as a risk to social cohesion,…

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Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

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Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities: East-Central Europe Case Study

This project contributes to the recent political and scholarly debate on the social and political consequences of spatial inequalities. Growing inter-regional disparities within EU countries have been described as a risk to social cohesion,…

Topics:

Regions, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

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Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities: East-Central Europe Case Study

There are grave socio-economic inequalities among regions in the European Union, inter-regional disparities within countries are on the rise. The priject concentrates on an exploration of the social and political consequences of spatial ine…

Topics:

Regions, Social Inequalities, Elections and Electoral Research

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2023 - 2025

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Social and political consequences of spatial inequalities

In the European Union, there are significant and in many cases growing socio-economic inequalities between regions. Increasingly, arguments are emerging that understand regional inequalities as a risk to social cohesion, a cause of social a…

Contracting authority:

International Project

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

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…

Topics:

Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2020 - 2023

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The Reconfiguration of Political Landscape - Explaining Independent Candidates Lists in Elections to Municipal Councils in the Czech Republic

The project focuses on an alternative form of representation on the local level which are independent (local) lists (ILLs). ILLs have been part of many established democracies as well as of new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe for …

Topics:

Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions, Elections and Electoral Research

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2020 - 2022

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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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Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

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Global Conflicts and Local Interactions: Cultural and Social Challenges

Research programme within Strategy AV21 focuses on global conflicts and their local interactions which present important cultural and social challenges in the 21st century. It analyses cultural and social transformations with regard to inte…

Topics:

Globalization, Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory

Contracting authority:

Other

Project Duration:

2016 - 2022

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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…

Topics:

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

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2015 - 2017

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Governance in Metropolitan Areas and its Influence on Socio-spatial Inequality - Czech Metropolises in International Comparison

The main goal of the project is to study influence of the governance on socio-spatial inequality in metropolitan areas in the Czech Republic in comparison to North American, West European and other Central European experiences. Partly it is…

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Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2008 - 2011

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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 …

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Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2006 - 2008

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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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Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2005 - 2006

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Persistence and change of voting patterns in the territory of the Czech Republic since the introduction of universal suffrage (causes and consequences)

The research project analyzes causes and political consequences of persistence and change of the voting patterns. It analyses results of all parliamentary elections on the territory of the contemporary Czech Republic since universal suffrag…

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Topics:

Politics and Political Attitudes, Regions

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2012 - 2015

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The Housing Market in Prague from the Perspective of Economic Sociology: “Transitive” Factors behind the High Prices of Owner-Occupied housing

The main objective of the project was determine whether there exist “transitive”, institutionally and culturally specific factors behind the high prices and low financial affordability of older and new owner-occupied housing in Prague, …

Topics:

Housing

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Project Duration:

2005 - 2007

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ADAPT2DC - Adaptation to demographic change

ADAPT2DC partnership aims to develop transferable strategies for the provision of innovative solutions to restructure the management of services and infrastructure in shrinking regions and cities from Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ital…

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Topics:

Regions

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2011 - 2014

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