International Projects

Current

ATHENA - Implementing gender equality plans to unlock research potential of RPOs and RFOs in Europe
Duration: 1. 2. 2021 - 31. 1. 2025
Evidence number:
Program: Horizont 2020
Project leader: doc. PhDr. Bianchi Gabriel, CSc.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Holubová Barbora, PhD., Mgr. Očenášová Zuzana, PhD., Mgr. Šudila Žilinská Miroslava
Annotation: One of the main objectives of Europe’s societies is the elimination of all types of discrimination associated with gender. Despite a high number of highly skilled female graduates, there is still very few of them embracing a research career. With almost 60% of women graduates in EU, only one third of the EU’s researchers are women. In this context, ATHENA project aims at removing barriers to the recruitment, retention and career progression of female researchers; address gender imbalances in decision making processes and generate a cultural change needed to avoid future gender bias and discriminatory practices through the implementation of Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) in 6 Research Performing and 2 Research Funding organisations. These targeted organisations belong to Central Eastern EU countries and EU outermost regions that show some of the lowest Gender Equality Indexes in the EU. Thanks to the implementation of the GEPs, ATHENA will contribute to unlocking the research potential of these organisations thus improving the overall performance of the European Research Area and helping to close the innovation divide by avoiding the waste of talent and inefficient use of skilled women from weaker regions of the EU. To ensure systemic institutional change, ATHENA will first conduct an assessment of procedures and practices already in place in partner RPOs and RFOs, together with an analysis of the national legislation and policy frameworks. In parallel, it will put in place a participatory process aimed, on one side, to understand the needs and the preferences of the stakeholders and, on the other side, to train them with regard to selected topics related to gender. Based on these two approaches GEPs will be drafted, implemented and monitored in each partner organisation.This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovationprogramme under grant agreement No 101006416.
Partner countries: Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain
Project website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101006416
Social Psychology Ambassadors of the EASP
Duration: 1. 4. 2022 - 31. 3. 2024
Evidence number: European Association of Social Psychology - Extraordinary grant
Program: Iné
Project leader: Mgr. Lášticová Barbara, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Poslon Xenia Daniela, PhD.
Annotation: Recent studies highlight inequalities within the discipline of social psychology and structural disadvantages faced by researchers from, among others, the region of South and Eastern Europe. Building on these insights, the project takes a lead in a systematic and community-oriented form of action. This proposal aims to establish and empower a network of social psychologists from ten countries within the region of South and East Europe (Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Latvia) and facilitate their further integration into the European community.
Partner countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine
Project website: https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/introducing_our_new_social_psych-1423.html

Finished

ENGAGE - Using contact interventions to promote engagement and mobilisation for social change
Duration: 1. 1. 2021 - 31. 12. 2022
Evidence number: 963122 — ENGAGE — REC-AG-2020 / REC-RDIS-DISC-AG-2020
Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: Mgr. Lášticová Barbara, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Hargašová Lucia, PhD., Mgr. Kanyicska Belán Dóra, PhD., doc. Mgr. Popper Miroslav, CSc., Mgr. Poslon Xenia Daniela, PhD., Mgr. Ševčíková Henrieta
Other cosolvers: Andrej Findor (FSEV UK), Matej Hruška (FSEV UK)
Annotation: ENGAGE addresses the discrimination of Roma people in Europe building on the assumption that antigypsyism and a hostile normative political context create obstacles to Roma inclusion and the social engagement of Roma and non- Roma people alike.Our objectives are to:(1) Addressing the problem of antigypsyism and indifference among members of the non-Roma majority.(2) Increasing Roma activism and engagement.(3) Mobilising the non-Roma population as allies for social change.We propose to identify a new approach to contact-based interventions to fulfil the aim of creating harmony in society while maintaining awareness of social inequalities. Our project will have two main pillars: (1) conducting and assessing contact-based intervention programs using action research and identifying best practices; (2) randomised controlled lab and survey experiments, and analysing data from large European surveys (e.g. ESS, EVS) and using meta-analysis of previous research.We will focus on Hungary, Slovakia and Spain, but maintain a European perspective in data collection anddissemination. Based on this multi-method project, we will develop common methodologies for contact-basedinterventions and an online, interactive toolkit for evaluating interventions from the perspective of fit with the normative context, prejudice reduction, and social mobilisation.We will organise 23 informal education workshops in Hungary (and to smaller degree in Spain) with non-Roma and Roma youth (~N=250), developed in the iterative process of action research.Best practices, experimental evidence and secondary data analysis will provide factual information to academic and lay people, local and EU politicians and NGOs, disseminated in traditional and social media by creating a short video and press releases. The interactive toolkit for evaluating interventions from the perspective of fit with the normative context, prejudice reduction, and social mobilisation will be accessible online.
Partner countries: Hungary, Slovakia, Spain
Project website: https://polrom.eu/engage/
PolRom - Identifying evidence-based methods to effectively combat discrimination of the Roma in the changing political climate of Europe
Duration: 1. 11. 2018 - 31. 8. 2021
Evidence number: 808062
Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: Mgr. Lášticová Barbara, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Hargašová Lucia, PhD., Mgr. Kanyicska Belán Dóra, PhD., doc. Mgr. Popper Miroslav, CSc., Mgr. Poslon Xenia Daniela, PhD.
Annotation: The main objective of the project is: (1)Identify the effects of political discourse on antigypsyism, and on negative and positive forms of collective action. (2) Evaluate and improve anti-discrimination interventions in terms of how they reduce prejudice, and influence collective action for and against the Roma. The following activities will be carried out throughout the project: (1) Public opinion surveys from representative samples in 5 countries (RO, HU, SK, IRE, FR) to measure the relationships between political discourse, antigypsyism and collective action intentions; (2) Content analysis of dominant political discourse regarding the Roma; (3) Systematic evaluation of anti-discrimination;(4) Lab experiments about the influence of social norms on collective action; (5)Focus group discussions with stakeholders (Roma representatives, local, national, and EU officials, NGOs); (6) Establishing a sounding forum to advise and evaluate project. Antigypsyism measure and survey results will be available in and outside academia. Recommendations will be disseminated directly to practitioners and stakeholders. The expected result is to create a toolkit to help design and improve anti-discrimination interventions. This toolkit will be based on a systematic analysis of the normative context of 5 European countries, public opinion surveys and experimental data, and an overview of interventions rolled out during the Roma inclusion decade. The project is supported by "Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme", DG Justice and Consumers, grant number 808062 — PolRom — REC-AG-2017/REC-RDIS-DISC-AG-2017.
Partner countries: France, Hungary, Ireland, Romania
Project website: www.polrom.eu
Political Leadership and Voting Behaviour
Duration: 1. 1. 2019 - 31. 1. 2019
Evidence number:
Program: Iné
Project leader: Mgr. Lášticová Barbara, PhD.
SAS cosolvers: Mgr. Poslon Xenia Daniela, PhD.
Other cosolvers: Timofy Brick, Anca Minescu, Craig Mc Garty
Annotation: The project examines the social-psychological processes affecting the content of implicit theories about competing political parties and their respective leaders and, subsequently, leading to the endorsement of ingroup candidate in national election. Whereas the importance of social identification in predicting both prototype content and ingroup-promoting behavior is indisputable, we predicted that disidentification, as a sense of self-defined opposition to an outgroup candidate, can affect voter decision-making through constructing collective consensus that outgroup leader’s personality is detrimental.
Partner countries: Australia, Ireland, Ukraine
CIMULACT - Citizen and Multi-Actor Consultation on Horizon 2020
Duration: 1. 6. 2015 - 30. 4. 2018
Evidence number: 665948
Program: Horizont 2020
Project leader: doc. PhDr. Bianchi Gabriel, CSc.
SAS cosolvers: PhDr. Michalek Tomáš, doc. Mgr. Popper Miroslav, CSc.
Annotation: CIMULACT has as a main objective to add to the relevance and accountability of European research and innovation –Horizon 2020 as well as national - by engaging citizens and stakeholders in co-creation of research agendas based on realand validated societal visions, needs and demands. The project will expand the outlook and debate on STI issues, increasescientific literacy in a broad sense, which includes the understanding of the societal role of Science, Technology andinnovation (STI), and create shared understanding between scientific stakeholders, policy-makers and citizens. This multiactorapproach will embrace EU28 plus Norway and Switzerland.The CIMULTACT builds on the principle/conviction that the collective intelligence of society gives Europe a competitiveadvantage, which may be activated to strengthen the relevance of the European science and technology system. Byestablishing genuine dialogue between citizens, stakeholders, scientists, and policymakers visions and scenarios for thedesirable futures will be developed and debated, and transformed into recommendations and suggestions for research andinnovation policies and topics.
Partner countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovakia
Project website: cimulact.sav.sk (bude spustená v r. 2016)
PLATENSO - Building a platform for enhanced societal research related to nuclear energy in Central and Eastern Europe
Duration: 1. 9. 2013 - 31. 8. 2016
Evidence number:
Program: 7RP
Project leader: doc. PhDr. Bianchi Gabriel, CSc.
SAS cosolvers: PhDr. Rosová Viera, CSc.
Annotation: 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 capabilities of research institutes in Central and EasternEuropean countries to take part in EU research with respect to governance, social and societal aspects is enhanced.
Partner countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
Project website: http://platensoproject.eu/
EU Kids Online - EU Kids Online: Enhancing Knowledge Regarding European Children\'s Use, Risk and Safety Online
Duration: 1. 1. 2012 - 31. 12. 2013
Evidence number: SIP-2010-TN-4201001
Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: Mgr. Petrjánošová Magda, PhD.
Annotation: EU Kids Online as a multi-national thematic network aims to stimulate and coordinate investigation into children\'s online uses, activities,risks and safety. It employs multiple methods to map European children\'s and parents\' changing experience of the internet. It also sustains an active dialogue with national and European policy stakeholders. 33 countries participate in the network.
Partner countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom
Project website: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/research/EUKidsOnline/Home.aspx
Y-SAV - “Understanding and addressing youth sexual coercion and violence as a threat to young people’s sexual health in Europe”- Acronym YouthSexualViolence,
Duration: 1. 7. 2010 - 30. 6. 2013
Evidence number: 2009 12 22
Program: Multilaterálne - iné
Project leader: doc. PhDr. Bianchi Gabriel, CSc.
Annotation: This is a EU Health Programme/Executive Agency for Health and Consumers/DG SANCO project aimed at identification and highloighting of sexual aggression and violence among youth. Its main goal is to develop a standard set of indicators for sexual aggression and violence among youth. The outcomes should be helpful in designing EU policices on prevention of sexual aggression and violence among young people.
Partner countries: Germany, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden
Project website: http://www.kvsbk.sav.sk/indexslovak.php?id=ysavposlanie
Intergroup attitudes and Intergroup contact in five Central European countries
Duration: 1. 1. 2010 - 31. 12. 2012
Evidence number: P407/10/2394
Program: Bilaterálne - iné
Project leader: Mgr. Petrjánošová Magda, PhD.
Annotation: The aim of the project is to determine the interplay between intergroup contact and intergroup attitudes in the border regions of the Czech Republic and four neighboring countries (Austria, Germany, Poland and Slovakia). Intergroup contact encompasses encounters between members of different social groups – e.g. different nations. Intergroup attitudes are conceptualized as comprising three distinct components: cognitive, affective and behavioral. The cognitive component of intergroup attitudes, national stereotypes, will be determined on scales of characteristics included in the five-factor personality model. The affective component will be measured with a feeling thermometer that assesses emotional relations to members of relevant outgroups. The behavioral component will be extrapolated from a qualitative analysis of open statements where participants described their experience with outgroup members. We will also analyze the effect of different levels of linguistic abstractness used for nationality labels that was manipulated in the instructions for open statements. In the proposed research project, we combine different theoretical perspectives from social andpersonality psychology as well as integrate qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches.
Project website: http://www.psu.cas.cz/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=60&Itemid=121
CULTPAT - Cultural Patterns of European Enlargement (CULTPAT – 5th FP)
Duration: 1. 9. 2003 - 31. 8. 2006
Evidence number: 00143
Program: 5RP
Project leader: Mgr. Lášticová Barbara, PhD.
Annotation: no description
Strategies of application of the Espoo and Aarhus Agreements betwen Lover Austria and Slovakia
Duration: 1. 5. 2005 - 30. 6. 2006
Evidence number:
Program: INTERREG
Project leader: doc. PhDr. Bianchi Gabriel, CSc.
Annotation: no description
Partner countries: Austria