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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…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Martina Mysíková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

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

Sociální a prostorová dostupnost středního vzdělání v Karlovarském kraji

The project focused on secondary education in the Karlovy Vary region, which is one of the regions with a relatively low socio-economic status of pupils and a number of socially excluded localities. In addition, part of its territory is rep…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Věra Patočková, M.A., Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Regions, Education

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2024 - 2024

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,…

Principal Investigator:

doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Regions, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

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…

Principal Investigator:

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Regions, Social Inequalities, Elections and Electoral Research

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2023 - 2025

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…

Principal Investigator:

Contracting authority:

International Project

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 …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Members of the project team:

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

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…

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Josef Bernard, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

City and Village, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2019 - 2022

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…

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Josef Bernard, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Migration and Mobility, Regions, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2018 - 2020

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…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.
doc. PhDr. Marek Hrubec, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Globalization, Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities, Sociological Theory

Contracting authority:

Other

Project Duration:

2016 - 2022

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

Project Duration:

2016 - 2016

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

Project Duration:

2015 - 2015

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

Project Duration:

2015 - 2017

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

Project Duration:

2015 - 2017

The Migratory Patterns of Foreigners (and Natives) in the Czechia: Concentration or Diusion Processes?

The presented project fills some gaps in research on international migration, especially the secondary migration of immigrants. The explanation of the features of internal mobility of immigrants and its impact on socio-spatial differentiati…

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Josef Bernard, Ph.D.

Topics:

Migration and Mobility

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2012 - 2014

Local governments in small municipalities and their endogenous development potential

The project focuses on the possibilities and limits of local governments in small municipalities in the Czech Republic (less than 2000 inhabitants) to influence the situation in the community and to make use of its endogenous development po…

Principal Investigator:

Doc. PhDr. Josef Bernard, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2009 - 2011

Projects

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

Sociální a prostorová dostupnost středního vzdělání v Karlovarském kraji

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

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

Social and political consequences of spatial inequalities

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

Rural amenities transformation and its effects on the rural population

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

Global Conflicts and Local Interactions: Cultural and Social Challenges

Volunteering in the Pardubice county

Social Enterprises in the Pardubice county

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

Socio-spatial disadvantage of inhabitants in peripheral rural regions

The Migratory Patterns of Foreigners (and Natives) in the Czechia: Concentration or Diusion Processes?

Local governments in small municipalities and their endogenous development potential

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