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Support for international cooperation in mentoring: networking and research

Building on a mentoring project for secondary school female students focused on de-stereotyping fields of research, carried out by the National Contact Centre for Women and Science since 2009, the goal of the present project is to create a …

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Mgr. Kateřina Cidlinská
Mgr. Martina Fucimanová

Topics:

European Union, Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Project Duration:

2014 - 2017

Protestors in Context: An Integrated and Comparative Analysis of democratic citizenship in the Czech Republic

De Tocqueville (1835) theorised that the exercise of citizen power in democracies depends fundamentally on both equality and active participation in public affairs. Consequently, political inequality will arise from differences in participa…

Principal Investigator:

Pat Lyons, BA, MA, Ph.D., DSc.

Topics:

Civil Society, Politics and Political Attitudes

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2013 - 2016

Dynamics of change in Czech society

Project summary:This project will examine the Dynamics of Change in Czech Society using a household panel survey research design. Applying insights from sociology, economics and politics this study will examine five themes: Family life, ti…

Principal Investigator:

Pat Lyons, BA, MA, Ph.D., DSc.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing, Politics and Political Attitudes, Work, Family, Social Inequalities, Education

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2014 - 2018

Changing work and job values in the Czech Republic

Around the world there are various branches of socio-economic research that make work and jobs their focus object of study. This interest has been heightened by the current economic recession, which has increased the risk of unemployment an…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Jiří Večerník, CSc.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Migration and Mobility, Wages and Incomes, Religion and religiosity, Work, Family

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2014 - 2016

Methodology of diversity management and reconciliation of work and private life in the workplace

The aim of the project is creation of certified methodology of diversity management and reconciliation of work and private life in the workplace, which will be usable directly by employers and organizations. This is an innovative interconne…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Alena Křížková, Ph.D.

Topics:

Gender, Care, Work

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2014 - 2015

Social communication and trust building in the process of selecting a site for a geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste

The aim of the project is to develop and systemize empirical findings and create applicable results that in the form of practical principles and procedures of social communication and participative decision-making will contribute to non-con…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Martin Ďurďovič, Ph.D.

Topics:

Public Administration, Public Opinion

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Public Opinion Research Centre

Project Duration:

2014 - 2015

Well-being and the satisfaction of households in CEE countries: linking objective and subjective indicators

The project aims to analyse the links between living conditions and their perceptions in Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak households. After the trends in aggregate indicators of socio-economic development are identified, questions will b…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Jiří Večerník, CSc.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Wages and Incomes, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2011 - 2013

PLATENSO - Building a platform for enhanced societal research related to nuclear energy in Central and Eastern Europe

The objective of PLATENSO is to provide a proposal towards establishing the legal base for a European Entity on Socio-Economic matters linked to nuclear technology and to develop recommendations for research strategies in PLATENSO countries…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Martin Ďurďovič, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

PhDr. Jiří Vinopal, Ph.D.

Topics:

European Union, Public Policy

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2013 - 2016

Data sources, research on data quality, standards, and methods of data harmonisation for the purposes of international comparative social research and integration into the CESSDA network

This project aims to strengthen the database and methodological platform of cross-national empirical research in the social sciences. To achieve this aim, the project will (1) ensure the acquisition, expert processing and archiving of data …

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Topics:

Sociological Data

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

Project Duration:

2009 - 2011

Educational Mobility and Educational Inequalities in the Czech Republic between 1936 and 2004

Current sociological approach to educational inequalities increasingly focuses on relative chances to educational transitions. Thus, the impact of structural contexts, establishing these chances, is completely eliminated. International comp…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Natalie Simonová, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Project Duration:

2006 - 2008

Integrated and United: A Quest for Citizenship in an “ever closer Europe” (INTUN), 6FP, No. CIT3-CT-2005-513421, September 2005 – August 2009. Project partner No. 6.

Public and Media: Comparative Analysis of Public Agenda-setting

The proposed project aims to map out, analyse and describe agenda-setting and agenda-linking processes in the Czech public and in the Czech mass media agenda. To get the necessary empirical data, in an empirical survey, the bidding team ai…

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Public Opinion Research Centre

Project Duration:

2006 - 2007

Support for the Social Acceptance and Effective Enforcement of Gender Equality in Public Sphere

The subject of this sociological project is support for the social acceptance of the institutional mechanisms designed for the enforcement of the principle of egual opportunities for men and women in the public sphere. The project provides …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Marie Čermáková

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2004 - 2009

Europäisierung der Gewerkschaften aus den Staaten der Osterweiterung. Entwicklungsperspektiven von gewerkschaftlicher Interessenvertretung und Solidarität in der EU/ The Europeanization of Trade Unions in the Countries of the Eastern Enlargement. …

Individuals and Households in the Czech Republic: Transformation Changes and Cross-National Comparison

Individuals and Households in the Czech Republic: Transformation Changes and Cross-National Comparison Researcher: Jiří VečerníkIssued by: Grant Agency of the Czech RepublicTime of researching the project: 2008 - 2010 The proposed p…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Ing. Jiří Večerník, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2008 - 2010

The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment of EU based Companies on the Labour Relations in EU Candidate Countries - Taking the Examples of Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Project of the University of Bremen, Institute Labour and Economy, Coordinator Dr. Jochen Tholen. Project was sponsored by Hans-Böckler-Foundation Düsseldorf and Otto Brenner Foundation Frankfurt/M – Berlin. The objective of the study a…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2003 - 2005

Grant Research Programme No 2301 GA CR: "Institutionalisation of Interests: the Origin of the Czech Civil Society", 1992-1995. Participant

The Social Capital and Social Policy Network (SCSPN): Social Cohesion, Trust and Participation: Social Capital, Social Policy and Social Cohesion in the European Union and Candidate Countries

In the first part, we comment issue of social capital and third sector in the Czech Republic with specific focus on NGOs, civic participation and social trust. Public policy in the civic sector is discussed. In the second part, we review li…

Principal Investigator:

Ivo Bayer, M.A.
PhDr. Jiří Šafr, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2006 - 2006

Social and Institutional Conditionality of Culture Development and Cultural Heritage Maintaining in the Regional Setting and its Exploitation for Effective Organisation of the Regional Cultural Activities

The aim of the project was a discovering of how culture development, cultural activities organization and exploitation are conditioned by social and institutional setting of a region and how to employ this knowledge in the activities of the…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Věra Patočková, M.A., Ph.D.

Topics:

Culture, Regions

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2011 - 2014

RECON - Reconstituting Democracy in Europe

RECON seeks to clarify whether democracy is possible under conditions of pluralism, diversity and complex multilevel governance. This includes taking proper heed of the challenges to democracy at EU and national levels.RECON spells out thre…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2007 - 2011

Constructing Supranational Political Spaces: The European Union, Eastern Enlargement, and Women’s Agency

This international comparative research project involving researchers from two accession countries – the Czech Republic and Poland – and American researchers focuses on studying the process of European Union enlargement. The project put…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Marie Čermáková

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2001 - 2004

Understanding of Intergroup Differences in the Discursive Processes of Public Opinion

Understanding the public opinion process in conditions of accelerating social changes is of ever greater urgency. We conceive public opinion as a process and thus as the outcome of discursive processes at three levels: the individual, the g…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Jiří Vinopal, Ph.D.

Topics:

Public Opinion

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Public Opinion Research Centre

Project Duration:

2013 - 2015

Integration, Security, Innovation (INSITO) – European Answers to the Worldwide Financial and Economic Crisis

The "INSITO" Project seeks to contribute to an intensive exchange between knowledge multipliers from academia and the working world (social partners), at the level of the regional players in participating EU Member States. Selected principl…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Jiří Vinopal, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Public Opinion Research Centre

Project Duration:

2009 - 2009

Housing Standards and their Growth Potentials in Comparison with Situation in the EU Countries

Housing standards, in accordance with research conducted in the European Union (EU) countries, are usually analysed within the context of the overall living conditions of households and include analyses of the development of household consu…

Principal Investigator:

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

Members of the project team:

Ing. Petr Sunega

Topics:

Housing

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Project Duration:

2003 - 2005

Information Needs Analysis: What Do You Want to Know about the European Union? Centre of European Studies, University of Economics, Prague (1998 - 1999). Participant

Projects

Support for international cooperation in mentoring: networking and research

Protestors in Context: An Integrated and Comparative Analysis of democratic citizenship in the Czech Republic

Dynamics of change in Czech society

Changing work and job values in the Czech Republic

Methodology of diversity management and reconciliation of work and private life in the workplace

Social communication and trust building in the process of selecting a site for a geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste

Well-being and the satisfaction of households in CEE countries: linking objective and subjective indicators

PLATENSO - Building a platform for enhanced societal research related to nuclear energy in Central and Eastern Europe

Data sources, research on data quality, standards, and methods of data harmonisation for the purposes of international comparative social research and integration into the CESSDA network

Educational Mobility and Educational Inequalities in the Czech Republic between 1936 and 2004

Integrated and United: A Quest for Citizenship in an “ever closer Europe” (INTUN), 6FP, No. CIT3-CT-2005-513421, September 2005 – August 2009. Project partner No. 6.

Public and Media: Comparative Analysis of Public Agenda-setting

Support for the Social Acceptance and Effective Enforcement of Gender Equality in Public Sphere

Europäisierung der Gewerkschaften aus den Staaten der Osterweiterung. Entwicklungsperspektiven von gewerkschaftlicher Interessenvertretung und Solidarität in der EU/ The Europeanization of Trade Unions in the Countries of the Eastern Enlargement. …

Individuals and Households in the Czech Republic: Transformation Changes and Cross-National Comparison

The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment of EU based Companies on the Labour Relations in EU Candidate Countries - Taking the Examples of Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Grant Research Programme No 2301 GA CR: "Institutionalisation of Interests: the Origin of the Czech Civil Society", 1992-1995. Participant

The Social Capital and Social Policy Network (SCSPN): Social Cohesion, Trust and Participation: Social Capital, Social Policy and Social Cohesion in the European Union and Candidate Countries

Social and Institutional Conditionality of Culture Development and Cultural Heritage Maintaining in the Regional Setting and its Exploitation for Effective Organisation of the Regional Cultural Activities

RECON - Reconstituting Democracy in Europe

Constructing Supranational Political Spaces: The European Union, Eastern Enlargement, and Women’s Agency

Understanding of Intergroup Differences in the Discursive Processes of Public Opinion

Integration, Security, Innovation (INSITO) – European Answers to the Worldwide Financial and Economic Crisis

Housing Standards and their Growth Potentials in Comparison with Situation in the EU Countries

Information Needs Analysis: What Do You Want to Know about the European Union? Centre of European Studies, University of Economics, Prague (1998 - 1999). Participant

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