Found 16 projects (displayed results 1 - 16)

Data Matters: Sociotechnical Challenges of European Migration and Border Control (DATAMIG)

Issues pertaining to the control of migration and borders are of paramount importance for contemporary societies. The way the relevant technology is designed and used is central to these issues. The configuration of migration and border control...
Principal investigator:
Mgr. Zuzana Uhde, Ph.D.
Team members:
Topics:
migration and mobility
Grant agency:
International project
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Social and political consequences of spatial inequalities

In the European Union, there are significant and in many cases growing socio-economic inequalities between regions. Increasingly, arguments are emerging that understand regional inequalities as a risk to social cohesion, a cause of social and political...
Principal investigator:
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc., Principal investigator:
Doc. PhDr. Josef Bernard, Ph.D.
Topics:
trust/social cohesion
Grant agency:
International project
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Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities: East-Central Europe Case Study

There are grave socio-economic inequalities among regions in the European Union, inter-regional disparities within countries are on the rise. The priject concentrates on an exploration of the social and political consequences of spatial inequality, which...
Principal investigator:
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc., Principal investigator:
Doc. PhDr. Josef Bernard, Ph.D.
Topics:
regions
Grant agency:
International project
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Inequalities in the settings, use and discourses of parental leave policies from a social sustainability perspective

The project develops research on paid parental leave (PPL) arrangements from a social sustainability perspective. We enrich knowledge of social inequalities related to institutional settings, discursive framing, access and use of PPL arrangements for...
Principal investigator:
PhDr. Hana Hašková, Ph.D.
Topics:
gender
Grant agency:
other
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Diversity of childcare attitudes and parenting practices: Their sources and outcomes

This project systematically explores a variation in attitudes to childcare and parental practices in the Czech Republic, with a comparative perspective. In contemporary developed societies, an ‘intensive parenting’ model, which places high demands on...
Topics:
gender
Grant agency:
Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
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RESISTIRÉ (RESpondIng to outbreakS through co-creaTIve inclusive equality stRatEgies)

Project aimThe aim of RESISTIRÉ is to 1) understand the impact of COVID-19 policy responses on behavioural, social and economic inequalities in the EU27, Serbia, Turkey, Iceland, and the UK on the basis of a conceptual gender+ framework, and 2) design,...
Principal investigator:
Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.
Topics:
gender
Grant agency:
International project
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Inconspicuous innovations and resilience in the urban context: Researching global questions through Central and Eastern European cities

This project is supported by the 2020 Lumina Quaeruntur award of the Czech Academy of Sciences. It establishes a new research team - The Centre for the Study of Social Change and the Material Environment (CESCAME) based at the Institute of Sociology....
Topics:
housing
Grant agency:
other
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Certification-Award Systems to Promote Gender Equality in Research (CASPER)

The CASPER aimsThe Horizon 2020 CASPER project will examine the feasibility of establishing a European award/certification system for gender equality with a focus on the organizational level. Based upon an extensive assessment of available systems and...
Principal investigator:
Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.
Team members:
Topics:
gender
Grant agency:
International project
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The Reconfiguration of Political Landscape - Explaining Independent Candidates Lists in Elections to Municipal Councils in the Czech Republic

The project focuses on an alternative form of representation on the local level which are independent (local) lists (ILLs). ILLs have been part of many established democracies as well as of new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe for some time, but...
Principal investigator:
PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.
Topics:
politics (and political attitudes)
Grant agency:
Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
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Who cares in Europe?

COST Action Who Cares in Europe? aims to define and develop an emerging research field that explores the relationships among voluntary associations, families and states in the creation of social welfare in Europe.It focuses on the question of how state...
Topics:
gender
Grant agency:
International project
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The European Family Support Network - Eurofamnet

This Action builds collaborative pathways between researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, children and families, public and private agencies, and general society to create the necessary framework that allows informing family policies and practices...
Principal investigator:
PhDr. Hana Hašková, Ph.D., Principal investigator:
doc. Mgr. Radka Dudová, Ph.D.
Topics:
care
Grant agency:
internal project
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Gender Equality Academy

Gender Equality Academy aimsThe general goal of the GE Academy project is to develop and implement a coherent and high-quality capacity-building programme on gender equality (GE) in research and innovation (R&I) as well as in Higher Education (HE)....
Principal investigator:
Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.
Topics:
EU
Grant agency:
International project
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GENDer equality in the ERA Community To Innovate policy implementatiON (GENDERACTION, Horizon 2020)

Gender equality is one of the five priorities of the European Research Area. It is today recognized that actions and policies must focus on legislative and especially institutional levels (cultural and institutional change) rather than seeing gender...
Principal investigator:
Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.
Topics:
gender
Grant agency:
International project
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We Defend Women's Rights in the Czech Republic

The aim of the project was to advance gender equality at the institutional level, in the labour market, in the family and in society. The Centre's activities focused primarily on the establishment and functioning of the Gender Expert Chamber of the Czech...
Principal investigator:
Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.
Topics:
gender
Grant agency:
other
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AZOLA

A comparative study of working conditions in several European countries has been carried out, focusing on adjustments to working conditions with regard to different stages of the life course. The research took place in the following countries: the...
Principal investigator:
PhDr. Hana Hašková, Ph.D.
Team members:
Topics:
gender
Grant agency:
International project
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Governments in Europe – Bringing in the Baltic and East Central European Democracies

The project examines the formation of coalition governments, coalition forms, and coalition governance in the ten new EU member states from Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland , Romania,...
Principal investigator:
PhDr. Zdenka Mansfeldová, CSc.
Team members:
Topics:
elites
Grant agency:
International project
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