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The project focuses on the future role of housing as an asset for supplementing retirement income, sometimes called asset- (housing-) based welfare (ABW). The interest in this subject is motivated by the process of population ageing. The partial shift...
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Project duration:
2016 - 2018
Grant agency:
Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically driven cross-national survey that has been conducted every two years across Europe since 2001. The survey measures the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of diverse populations in more than...
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Project duration:
2016 - 2019
Grant agency:
Government ministry project
The project offers a comparative perspective of changes in perception of the role of the state and form of responsible governance in the Czech Republic after the financial and economic crisis, which in addition to changing redistributive expectations has...
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Project duration:
2016 - 2018
Grant agency:
Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
The project focuses on Prague allotments as an empirical example of the changing approach to urban nature and urban planning after the fall of socialism. Allotments represent spaces of affection and care. As urban nature, they are spaces of intense...
Principal investigator:
Project duration:
2016 - 2018
Grant agency:
Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
The project aims to develop a certified method serving for identification of local housing market failure and its quantification. The method will be applied in municipal applications for state subsidies on social housing investments as a service of...
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Project duration:
2016 - 2017
Grant agency:
Technology agency of the Czech republic
The projects’ goal is to provide a complex picture of local leadership in the environment of the Czech Republic through participation in an international survey, original local research of mayors of municipalities of all sizes, and a secondary...
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Project duration:
2016 - 2018
Grant agency:
Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
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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Project duration:
2015 - 2017
Grant agency:
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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Project duration:
2015 - 2017
Grant agency:
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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Project duration:
2015 - 2017
Grant agency:
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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Project duration:
2015 - 2017
Grant agency:
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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Project duration:
2015 - 2017
Grant agency:
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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Project duration:
2015 - 2017
Grant agency:
Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
Program podpory perspektivních lidských zdrojů AV ČR.
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Project duration:
2015 - 2016
Grant agency:
Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
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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Project duration:
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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Project duration:
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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Project duration:
2014 - 2016
Grant agency:
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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Project duration:
2014 - 2016
Grant agency:
International 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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Project duration:
2014 - 2017
Grant agency:
Government ministry 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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Project duration:
2014 - 2017
Grant agency:
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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Project duration:
2014 - 2017
Grant agency:
International project

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