The project is conceived as an interdisciplinary theoretical research on the border between philosophy and sociology with implications for the economic theory of action. Key objectives of the project are: a) analysing and linking up theories of...
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2015 - 2017
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Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
The project addresses the issue of social disadvantage of inhabitants of peripheral rural regions.Social disadvantage usually entails a spatial component. The spatial concentration of social disadvantage, exclusion and deprivation and the socio-spatial...
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2015 - 2017
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Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
The project is concerned with the integrations of, and conflicts and passages between biomedicine and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Drawing upon medical anthropology, science and technology studies and the sociology of medicine, we...
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2015 - 2017
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Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
The project focuses on the time and space of homeless persons in relation to conditions of the post-socialistic city. The project aims to extend topic of homelessness by defining the target group not by static absence of supposed home (or habitation)...
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2015 - 2017
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Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
The aim of the project is to develop an intersectional approach to the study of social inequalities in Czech sociology. Intersectionality, as a theoretical framework and analytical tool to understand inequalities in society, will be used to map the...
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2015 - 2017
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Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
The project examines the changing understanding of the responsibility for care and the impact this has on the current configurations of elderly care in the Czech Republic. It aims to analyse the forms and implications of monetary transfers at the...
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2015 - 2017
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Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
Obecným cílem projektu je získat aktuální informace o stavu sociálního podnikání v Pardubickém kraji, jeho možných perspektivách a možnostech podpory ze strany územní samosprávy a státu. Sociální podniky, resp. subjekty sociálního podnikání, jsou...
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2015
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other
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 public with the...
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2014 - 2016
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International project
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 change based on...
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2014 - 2016
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International project
Cílem projektu je zlepšit prosazování rovných šancí pro ženy a muže v institucionální rovině, na trhu práce, v rodině i ve společnosti. Aktivity institutu se zaměřují primárně na zřízení a fungování Expertní genderové komory ČR. Cílů má být dosažen...
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2014 - 2016
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other
The goal of the project is to contribute to the enhancement of women participation to economic decision making positions in 6 different EU countries and at the European level. In this view the project has set out to attain the following specific...
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2014 - 2016
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International project
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 mentoring...
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2014 - 2017
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Government ministry project
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...
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2014 - 2017
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Government ministry project
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 one step...
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2014 - 2017
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International project
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 in perception...
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Project duration:
2014 - 2015
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Technology agency of the Czech republic
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 interconnection of...
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Project duration:
2014 - 2015
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Technology agency of 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 and raises...
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Project duration:
2014 - 2016
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Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
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, time use and...
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Project duration:
2014 - 2018
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Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
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. Thereby the...
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Project duration:
2013 - 2016
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International project
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 participation, although...
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2013 - 2016
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Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
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