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9 Projects

Education of Foreigners in Schools and Its Impact on Successful Integration into Czech Society

The project, which is unique in the Czech context, deals with the topic of education of pupils with insufficient knowledge of Czech as the language of instruction in primary schools (ages 6-15) and high schools (ages 15-19). Building up t…

Topics:

Migration and Mobility, Education

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2023 - 2026

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Factors for reoffending and the process of desistance in the context of conditional release

The aim of the project is to make the tools and means of criminal policy, which lead to reducing reoffending, more effective. The research goal is to identify individual and social factors that significantly contribute to desistance. On thi…

Topics:

Criminality

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

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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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 …

Topics:

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

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2019 - 2021

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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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Topics:

Public Administration, Environment

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2017 - 2019

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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 …

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Topics:

Civil Society

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2016 - 2016

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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…

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Topics:

Economy, Social Policy, Public Administration

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2015 - 2015

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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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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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