Projects

Project Duration:

2015 - 2017

We Defend Women's Rights in the Czech Republic

The aim of the project was to advance gender equality at the institutional level, in the labour market, in the family and in society. The Centre's activities focused primarily on the establishment and functioning of the Gender Expert Chambe…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

Other

Department:

Project Duration:

2014 - 2016

Equilibrium between Women and Men

Project reacts to discrimination of women in their access to decision-making and to inadequate reflection of their needs (gender mainstreaming). The project will explore link between both problems. The aim of the project is a system chang…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Marta Vohlídalová, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Project Duration:

2014 - 2016

Economic Impacts of Motherhood from a Lifelong Perspective

Quantification of lifelong economic impacts of motherhood on women and identification of their causes will lead to revision of relevant public policies and employer practices. Recommendations will be targeted at decision-makers and the publ…

Principal Investigator:

doc. Mgr. Radka Dudová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Economy, Gender, Work, Parenting

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Public Opinion Research Centre

Project Duration:

2014 - 2016

Changes of working life quality

AnotationThe project is focused on the analysis of changes in the quality of working life, and on the implementation of an already developed methodology of its continuous observation. Outputs: 1. A publication analyzing the state and trends…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Jiří Vinopal, Ph.D.

Topics:

Work, Standard of Living

Contracting authority:

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Project Duration:

2014 - 2015

TRansforming Institutions by Gendering contents and Gaining Equality in Research

TRIGGER has been designed with the general aim of consolidating the many and valuable results of the process initiated by the EC since more than ten years now in the domain of gender and science, and contributing to take this same process o…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Mgr. Hana Víznerová
PhDr. Marta Vohlídalová, Ph.D.
Mgr. Kateřina Cidlinská
Mgr. et Mgr. Hana Tenglerová
Mgr. Blanka Nyklová, Ph.D.

Topics:

Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Project Duration:

2014 - 2017

Strengtheninng the European dimension of Czech research through representing the CR in ERA related expert groups and through a transformation of research organization to achieve gender balance

The "structural change" component of the project aims to implement cultural and institutional change at the Institute of Chemical Technology Prague (ICT). The ICT is a higher education institution with a highly developed international coo…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Members of the project team:

Mgr. Hana Víznerová

Topics:

European Union, Gender, Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Project Duration:

2014 - 2017

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:

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:

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:

Public Opinion Research Centre

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:

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:

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:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

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:

Project Duration:

2009 - 2011

PARTNER- Partnership and Participation in Local Public Administration: Meaning, Experiences and Promises.

Main goal of this project is to identify how local communities understand to idea of partnership and participation, to what extent and with what instruments is participation realized and what structures of partnership are created between …

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Daniel Čermák, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Project Duration:

2006 - 2011

Central European Centre for Women and Youth in Science (CEC-WYS)

The two primary objectives of the Centre are: 1) to promote, mobilise and network women in science in Central Europe, and thus to contribute to increasing gender equality in R&D and to structuring the European Research Area 2) to promote, m…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Project Duration:

2004 - 2007

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:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

Project Duration:

2012 - 2014

CESSDA - PPP: Preparatory phase project for a major upgrade of the Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) research infrastructure

This project arises as a direct result of the Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) Research Infrastructure (RI) being identified by ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) Roadmap exercise as an exis…

Principal Investigator:

Mgr. Jindřich Krejčí, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Project Duration:

2007 - 2008

Objective and Subjective Assessments of the Financial Affordability of Housing in the Czech Republic during the 1990s

This study looks at assessments of the financial affordability of housing in the Czech Republic over the course of the 1990s, drawn from two mutually complementary perspectives: on the basis of verified data, detailing the levels of househo…

Principal Investigator:

Ing. Petr Sunega

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Project Duration:

2002 - 2003

Reducing the security threats of corruption and organized crime in the Czech Republic

This project seeks to prevent serious security threats to the Czech state via organized crime and corruption by addressing the mechanisms by which those crimes take place. The project will design and propose legislative and non-legislative …

Principal Investigator:

Michael L. Smith, Ph.D.

Topics:

Corruption, Criminality

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department: