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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:

Public Opinion Research Centre

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:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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:

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

Czech Political Parties after Ten Years”, Projekt supported by Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, head of the Project Lubomír Brokl. (2002-2004). participant.

The Role of Economic and Political Elites in Transformation of the Czech Society

According to the knowledge acquired in the research, the genesis of the new elite in the transformation process proceeded in three modes: firstly, as reproduction and more or less fluent adaptation of the old state socialist elite to the …

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2001 - 2002

Analysis of Occurrence of Harassment of Women and Men on the Grounds of Sex and Sexual Harassment at Workplace

MPSV ČR, 2004 - 2005…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Alena Křížková, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2004 - 2005

HELPS - Housing and Home-care for the Elderly and vulnerable people and Local Partnership Strategies in Central European cities

The general objective of theProject is to promote development strategies and practices to improving the quality of life of vulnerable groups,with a strategic focus on elderly and people with disabilities, in urban areas in Central Europe. I…

Principal Investigator:

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

Members of the project team:

Topics:

Housing, Intergenerational Relations, Care, Age and Aging

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Project Duration:

2011 - 2014

Citizens and the State in the Czech Republic:The Impact and Legacy of the Prague Spring 1968-2008

This project examines the nature of citizenship in the Czech Republic and the legacy of the Prague Spring 1968. In early May 1968 a mass survey undertaken for the communist party leadership investigated public attitudes toward democratisati…

Principal Investigator:

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

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2008 - 2009

Regional Identity of the Population of the Nisa Euroregion

In the territory, called for working purposes the Nisa Euroregion, there live all together 1.5 mil of Czech, German and Polish citizens. Co-existence of people here was largely affected by the post-war compulsory transfer of Germans from t…

Topics:

Regions

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2001 - 2002

Environmental Values, Beliefs and Behavior in the Czech Republic in Historical and Cross-National Perspective

This project analyzes environmental values and behavior in the Czech Republic in both historical and comparative perspective. The project seeks to make a major contribution to environmental sociology by focusing on four research themes. Fir…

Principal Investigator:

Michael L. Smith, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Economic and Religious Studies

Project Duration:

2009 - 2012

Employment Problems and Industrial Relations in Central Europe. After the System Transformation: Focusing on the Czech Republic.

Bilateral Czech-Japanese Project, supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2000 - 2002

Political and Legal Institutional Framework of the Czech Republic and its Changes in the Context of the Accession the the EU

The project examines the legal and institutional environment in the Czech Republic, the effect of the most prominent collective actors prior to its accession to the European Union, and changes that are occuring due to the process of Europea…

Principal Investigator:

PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2004 - 2007

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…

Governance in Metropolitan Areas and its Influence on Socio-spatial Inequality - Czech Metropolises in International Comparison

The main goal of the project is to study influence of the governance on socio-spatial inequality in metropolitan areas in the Czech Republic in comparison to North American, West European and other Central European experiences. Partly it is…

Principal Investigator:

doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2008 - 2011

Participation, Democracy and Citizenship in the Czech Republic and International Comparison

An international comparative quantitative survey was conducted as a part of the project. The project also examines legal norms and definitions of the excercise of civil and political rights today and historically, describes the fromation of…

Principal Investigator:

doc. PhDr. Petra Guasti, Ph.D., Dr. Habil.

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2003 - 2005

ADAPT2DC - Adaptation to demographic change

ADAPT2DC partnership aims to develop transferable strategies for the provision of innovative solutions to restructure the management of services and infrastructure in shrinking regions and cities from Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ital…

Principal Investigator:

doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc.

Topics:

Regions

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2011 - 2014

Projects

Changes of working life quality

TRansforming Institutions by Gendering contents and Gaining Equality in Research

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

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

Czech Political Parties after Ten Years”, Projekt supported by Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, head of the Project Lubomír Brokl. (2002-2004). participant.

The Role of Economic and Political Elites in Transformation of the Czech Society

Analysis of Occurrence of Harassment of Women and Men on the Grounds of Sex and Sexual Harassment at Workplace

HELPS - Housing and Home-care for the Elderly and vulnerable people and Local Partnership Strategies in Central European cities

Citizens and the State in the Czech Republic:The Impact and Legacy of the Prague Spring 1968-2008

Regional Identity of the Population of the Nisa Euroregion

Environmental Values, Beliefs and Behavior in the Czech Republic in Historical and Cross-National Perspective

Employment Problems and Industrial Relations in Central Europe. After the System Transformation: Focusing on the Czech Republic.

Political and Legal Institutional Framework of the Czech Republic and its Changes in the Context of the Accession the the EU

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…

Governance in Metropolitan Areas and its Influence on Socio-spatial Inequality - Czech Metropolises in International Comparison

Participation, Democracy and Citizenship in the Czech Republic and International Comparison

ADAPT2DC - Adaptation to demographic change

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