Cosmopolitanism on the Border – Case Study of Istrian Peninsula
Project leader: Marin Beroš, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2024
The interdisciplinary project “Cosmopolitanism on the Border – Case Study of Istrian Peninsula” (KOZIS) will give an overview of two positions – one at the general level of cosmopolitan theory, which is concerned with global social phenomena, and the other at the local level, which is focused on the Istrian peninsula and intercultural practices in daily ...
Intra-European Youth Labour Migrations in the Context of Contemporary Career Theories
Project leader: Iva Šverko, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2024
The objective of project WORKMOBIL is to delve into the contemporary phenomenon of intra-European labor migration among young individuals, exploring it from demographic, sociological, and psychological angles. We aim to elucidate the scope and structure of labor migration among young people to and from Croatia over the past five years by scrutinizing existing statistical data. ...
Dynamics and challenges of migration, re-migration and immigration in the Republic of Croatia
Project leader: Rebeka Mesarić-Žabčić, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2024
The research focus of the interdisciplinary project proposal is the Republic of Croatia, which became a member of the EU on July 1, 2013. Taking into the framework of observation the historical picture of how Croatia is a kind of basin of migration, re-migration and immigration and the circulation of labor force is continuously taking place, from 1945 to the present day, the pr...
The effect of environment on child development: The association of digital technology use, home literacy environment and physical activity with the well-being of children in early school years
Project leader: Marina Kotrla-Topić, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2024
In the context of the contemporary study on the influence of the environment on children’s development, the DigiLitA project seeks to achieve a better understanding of the connections between certain environmental factors, specifically the use of digital technology, the literacy environment in which children are growing up, and physical activity in children of early schoo...
DaIly STRESS in late adolescence and emerging adulthood
Project leader: Goran Milas, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2024
Numerous studies provide evidence of the important role of stress in the development of various mental health problems, with adolescence and emerging adulthood being a crucial period for the emergence of these adversities. Although previous research has identified some situational and dispositional determinants of stress, studies that have simultaneously considered their joint ...
Forgotten places of suffering of the Unsuitables: Genocide of Roma in the Independent State of Croatia: research, memorialization, education
Project leader: Danijel Vojak, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2024
The genocidal suffering of the Roma population in Europe during the Second World War is an insufficiently researched filed in European and Croatian historiography. Yugoslav state authorities, as well as the authorities of the Republic of Croatia today, after the end of the Second World War, did not establish an appropriate system of remembrance culture, and the consequence of t...
Adolescent’s well-being in key contexts
Project leader: Andreja Brajša-Žganec, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2024
The main goal of this project is to explore changes and daily fluctuations in different indicators of well-being (life satisfaction, positive and negative affect, emotional problems), and to examine links between family characteristics and the quality of peer relationships with indicators of well-being in middle and late adolescence. Based on developmental theories, family and ...
Transformation of Local Communies in the Republic of Croatia. Gobalization challanges and development potentials
Project leader: Mateo Žanić, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2024
One of the key research questions in the 21st century revolves around the impact of global social changes on local communities. Social risks and crises such as pandemics, climate change, demographic aging, migration crises and wars affect local social relations in various ways. As part of the project implementation Transformation of Local Communities in the Republic of Croatia:...
Croatian National Identity: Emergance and Disputes
Project leader: Saša Mrduljaš, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2024
Until the end of the Middle Ages, in the territory of present-day Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, there were several independent state formations, i.e. Croatia and Dalmatia, Slavonia, which was closely related to it at the time, then Bosnia and the Republic of Dubrovnik. Today’s Slavonia and Istria were under foreign centers. Despite this, almost the entire population...
Sociological Aspects of Climate Change in Croatia
Project leader: Jelena Puđak, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2024
Climate changes, although they originate from nature, have their causes in modern social organization: the economic, political and cultural system that spreads from the most developed countries to the rest of the world. The need to understand global warming and climate change generates a very high degree of complexity of the problem for those who want to understand the phenomen...
Nightlife: A study in real and virtual context
Project leader: Renata Glavak-Tkalić, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2024
Nightlife is an economically and culturally important part of modern life but is also associated with various health and social problems and risk behaviors. This research has two aims: to determine the extent and patterns of substance use in nightclubs by conducting in situ research, and to test the applicability of virtual reality (VR) technology in reducing harm from risk beh...
Psychosocial climate and individual characteristics of prisoners and prison officers in penal institutions in Croatia: multi-method approach
Project leader: Ines Sučić, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2024
The project’s main goal is to investigate the psychosocial climate in penal institutions in the Republic of Croatia, compare the psychosocial climate in the Croatian penal institutions to those from other countries, and contrast prisoners’ and prison officers’ perceptions of the psychosocial climate. An additional goal is to examine the relative contribution o...
