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FEMCIT: Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Impact of Contemporary Women’s Movement

While several social movements have contributed to social change in Europe during the last four decades, the goal of FEMCIT is to investigate the role of women’s movements in these transformative processes. FEMCIT will explore the r…

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Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2006 - 2011

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Women in Czech science – the Position of Women in the Structures of the Academy of Sciences of the CR between 1953 – 2000 (AS CR)

The subject matter of this sociologically oriented project is the research of professional and life trajectories of women in this scientific institution. The core of the project is a sociological analysis of the structures and dynamics of p…

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Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2001 - 2003

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Articulations of science policies in research practice and academic path

Science and research are increasingly becoming subject to managerial visions and procedures. Building on an international research project Knowledge, institutions and gender: an East–West comparative study (FP 6, 2006–2008, EC) this pro…

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Topics:

Sociology of Sciences

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2009 - 2010

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Kontraurbanizace v České republice: migrace na venkov, životní styl a proměny rezidenčních preferencí

Grantová agentura University Karlovy v Praze, projekt č. 104810. Web projektu: http://www.urrlab.cz/?kontraurbanizace=…

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Development interests of border area regions ( Orlicko case)

Differentiation and marginalisation of some social groups is folowed by regionalů differentiation and marginalisation. To map problems on a level of a whole and a region, to discover level of marginalisation of the Czech border area and to…

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Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2006 - 2011

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Deputies and Senators of the Parliament CR in the Third Term

The project of a research into the Members and Senators of the CR Parliament in its third term was a part of long-term monitoring of a development of the new Czech parliamentarianism and new political elite. It was continuous with the resea…

Principal Investigator:

  • doc. PhDr. Lubomír Brokl

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

1999 - 2001

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Obstacles and opportunities: factors influencing the decisions of Czech scientists about the return to the Czech Republic from abroad

The aim of the project is to analyze all types of factors, which shape decision-making of Czech scientists and researchers who reside occupationally abroad whether they come back to the Czech Republic or not. The project addresses (through …

Principal Investigator:

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2006 - 2008

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National Contact Centre - Women and Science III.

A follow-up grant, the activities the Center develops fall into two basic lines. The first is to support women researchers' participation in European research, promote equal opportunities in science and research and support early career …

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Topics:

European Union, Gender, Public Policy

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2008 - 2012

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Constructions of breadwinning in Czech society after 1989

The  project concentrates on the phenomenon of breadwinning in the Czech Republic after 1989 which has not been so far systematically researched in Czech sociology and which is firmly linked to many areas of social reality, especially to…

Principal Investigator:

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2009 - 2011

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The Migratory Patterns of Foreigners (and Natives) in the Czechia: Concentration or Di usion 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:

Topics:

Migration and Mobility

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2012 - 2014

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The Building of the Archive of Sociological Data

Thanks to the project, SDA has developed into an infrastructure that is able to provide data and other services on a standard level for non-commercial social research and teaching. The project systematically created conditions for activitie…

Principal Investigator:

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Czech Social Science Data Archive

Project Duration:

1999 - 2000

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NEWGOV - New Modes of Governance

The aim of this Integrated Project is to produce a deeper conceptual, empirical and normative understanding of all aspects of governance within and beyond Europe, giving special attention to the emergence, execution, evaluation and evolutio…

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Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2004 - 2006

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Europeanization of Political Representation in the Czech Republic

This research project adresses central questions within the study of parliamentary representation in the Czech Republic. Our study is focused on three themes: (1) Parlamentarians - who are Czech republic's political representatives and how …

Principal Investigator:

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2007 - 2009

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The Context of Changes in the Labour Market and Forms of Private, Family and Partner Life in Czech Society

The objective of the project is to identify the main changes in the labour market and to study their context and impact on the organisation of private life among Czech people. The project focuses on the changing forms of partner and family …

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Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2004 - 2007

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Changes in partnership and family forms and arrangements from the life course perspective

In the last two decades, there have been major changes in the forms of private (partnership and family) life in the Czech Republic (CR). Several research projects focused on their patterns we will add a life course perspective to perform th…

Principal Investigator:

Topics:

Gender

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2010 - 2013

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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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Members of the project team:

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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Citizenship, Publics and the Constitution for Europe: The Czech Republic, Germany, Latvia and Poland in European Integration (ConstEPS)

Coordinated by University of Bremen/FB 8Institute of Political ScienceJean Monnet Centre for European Studies (CEuS)Professor Dr. Ulrike LiebertHomepage: www.monnet-centre.uni-bremen.de Research Project, funded by VolkswagenFoundation in th…

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Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2004 - 2007

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Legitimacy of the Political System and Inequalities: The Development in the Czech Republic in Comparative Perspective

The project aims to increase the knowledge about the perceptions of the relation between the political and distributive systems legitimacy. It also focuses on problems of social inequalities and social capital. The instruments used and the …

Principal Investigator:

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2005 - 2007

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Regional disparities in availability and affordability of housing, their socio-economic consequences and tools directed to increase availability and affordability of housing and decrease the regional disparities

The project will reveal, quantify and analyze actual regional disparities (among regions NUTS 3) in availability and affordability of housing in the Czech Republic. The time series describing the development of such disparities will be prov…

Principal Investigator:

Topics:

Housing

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Project Duration:

2007 - 2011

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