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6 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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Centre for the Study of Social Change and the Material Environment

The CESCAME research endeavour focuses on cities as sites where innovations in knowledge and agency originate. It looks at the coping strategies of people concerning everyday tasks of dealing with the material environment, including fo…

Topics:

City and Village, Environment

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Local and regional studies

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Inconspicuous innovations and resilience in the urban context: Researching global questions through Central and Eastern European cities

This project is supported by the 2020 Lumina Quaeruntur award of the Czech Academy of Sciences. It establishes a new research team - The Centre for the Study of Social Change and the Material Environment (CESCAME) based at the Institute of …

Topics:

Housing, Globalization, Climate Change, City and Village, Sociological Theory, Consumption, Transformation, Environment

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2021 - 2025

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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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Topics:

Housing, Identity, City and Village

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Project Duration:

2018 - 2020

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Social Networks and Spatial Mobility of Homeless Persons

Program podpory perspektivních lidských zdrojů AV ČR.…

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Topics:

Migration and Mobility, Social Capital, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2015 - 2016

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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…

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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

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