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255 Projects

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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Unequal access to education: the extent, sources, social and economic consequences, policy strategies

A vast number of studies conducted by the OECD and World Bank has well-documented that those countries reforming their educational systems and eliminating a variety of socio-economic barriers causing inequal access to education are today wo…

Principal Investigator:

  • prof. PhDr. Petr Matějů, Ph.D.

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Project Duration:

2003 - 2008

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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…

Principal Investigator:

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Gender & Sociology

Project Duration:

2001 - 2003

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Regional councils in a European perspective

An important part of multi-level governance, regional self-administration has undergone many changes in recent decades both in the old and new democracies, with European integration playing a major role. In the Czech Republic regional self-…

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Topics:

Regions

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2012 - 2014

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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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“Social Apathy and Trust in the Civil Society: Czech – Taiwanese Comparison“, PPP Czech-Taiwanese Joint Research Project 2011. Project coordinator for the Czech part.

SummaryThe positive role of civil society, such as the contribution to the regime change and to the consolidation of democracy is highlighted in numerous literatures. However, until today, fewer authors were concentrating on the systematic …

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Topics:

Trust/Social Cohesion

Contracting authority:

International Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2011 - 2011

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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 …

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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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Creation of the Czech node of the pan-European project of the large research infrastructure European Social Survey (ESS – survey)

The main aim of the ESS – survey project is creation of the national node of the ESS ERIC (www.europeansocialsurvey.org) in the Czech Republic and the realization of the fifth, sixth and seventh round of ESS survey. The European Social Su…

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Topics:

Value Orientations, Intergenerational Relations, Interpersonal Relations, Family, Age and Aging, Public health, Lifestyle

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2010 - 2015

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ISSP 2013 - National identity III

After 1989, national identity became a major research topic in the social sciences. In the first half of the 1990´s, Europe experienced a series of events that brought attention of scientists to the issue of national identity - disintegrat…

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Topics:

Trust/Social Cohesion, Identity, Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Values and Politics

Project Duration:

2012 - 2014

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