The Velebit uprising in 1932 – the resistance of the Croatian people to a dictatorship
Project leader: Ivan Brlić, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2021
The Velebit (Lički, Brušanski) uprising of 1932 is one of the significant events in Lika and Croatian history that has not been sufficiently scientifically researched or objectively presented to this day. Using scientific methods of research and documentation of a historical event, an effort will be made for the first time in Croatian historiography to provide a clear chronolog...
Quality of life of adults with hemophilia in Croatia – Medical and psychosocial aspects
Project leader: Ljiljana Kaliterna-Lipovčan, PhD | Project Start: 21/12/2020
Hemophilia is a rare disease characterized by numerous medical and psychosocial specificities. Researches that would analyze these specifics in more detail are still relatively rare and have mostly been conducted in developed countries where the standard of medical care for people with hemophilia is extremely high. Many of these studies are of a partial nature, i.e. they concen...
Transportation accessibility as a factor in the demographic revitalization and deperipherization of Croatia
Project leader: Ivo Turk, PhD | Project Start: 01/12/2020
Poor transportion accessibility is an important factor in unfavorable demographic trends. It is clear that the spaces are poorly accessible compared to the centers to which they gravitate in a more unfavorable position from a demographic point of view than those whose transportion accessibility is good. Improving traffic accessibility is certainly one of the prerequisites for g...
Highly Interactive Guidance Helpful For Leadership In Educationally Relevant Skills
Project leader: Josip Burušić, PhD | Project Start: 01/12/2020
The ERASMUS+ HIGH-FLIERS project is an educational project focused on issues of initial education and professional development of teachers in the STEM field. In addition to teachers, the project is also aimed at professional development of staff in higher education institutions and experts involved in extracurricular programs and activities (eg those who work in museums, scienc...
The precariousness of work in the gig economy in Croatia
Project leader: Filip Majetić, PhD | Project Start: 01/12/2020
The fundamental goal of the PrekarGigHrv project is to investigate the precariousness of work in the gig economy in Croatia. Gig (Croatian: gaža) economy refers to the economy of short-term jobs in which supply and demand today most often meet on online platforms (e.g. Wolt, UpWork). Gig workers generally earn their living by doing several jobs at the same time short-term jobs ...
Spaces of the home: socio-cultural aspects of urban housing in Croatia
Project leader: Sara Ursić, PhD | Project Start: 01/12/2020
The project is based on the assumption that the spaces of the home have their own intrinsic logic that tells us about the way of life, values and behavior of people and that by researching the construction and practice of the home we can gain insight into the functioning of different dimensions of society. Speaking more in theoretical constructs, we are interested in the prac...
From local to virtual communities. Social relations of young people in conditions of imposed spatial distancing
Project leader: Mateo Žanić, PhD | Project Start: 01/12/2020
The goal of the project is to investigate the social relations of young people in the conditions of transformations of daily routines under the pressure of measures to combat the coronavirus. Namely, it is maintained that in this way, the previous knowledge concerning the relationship between online and offline social networks in which young people participate will be significa...
National identification in Montenegro
Project leader: Saša Mrduljaš, PhD | Project Start: 01/12/2020
Montenegro is one of the few European countries in which the national-formative processes have not yet resulted in the national-identity unification of the ethnically homogeneous population. Moreover, as a rule, this population is divided by nationality. Such a situation, according to the 2011 census, is most noticeable in the Montenegrin Orthodox population divided between the...
Body, health, prevention: media-constructed discourses and living culture in the age of new “bio-realities”
Project Start: 01/12/2020
The virus itself is a “biological agent” (Pleyers 2020), but due to the wide and far-reaching consequences of the COVID19 disease pandemic, it is impossible to treat it as an exclusively health topic. Since the beginning of the crisis, the sociological and anthropological community has been questioning various aspects and dimensions of the crisis. The project inaugu...
The Cult of Saint Nicholas – Changes Through History and Role in Building the Contemporary Identity of Dubrovnik
Project leader: Vinicije Lupis, PhD | Project Start: 15/11/2020
The cult of St. Nicholas in Dubrovnik has its own special dimension, as a cult dedicated to the sea and the seamen of the Republic of Dubrovnik. The decisive historical event in the defense of Dubrovnik in the Homeland War 6. XII. In 1991, when the city suffered the greatest destruction – precisely on the holiday of St. Nicholas, instigated the change through which the re...
one heart, one soul, one CROATIA
Project Start: 28/10/2020
The project “One heart, one soul, one CROATIA” establishes and develops a thematic network consisting of stakeholders gathered around the thematic area of Immigration as a driver of development in the Republic of Croatia. The general goal of the project is to strengthen the capacities of civil society organizations for an equal dialogue with public administration, t...
Analysis of social factors affecting the quality of life of the veteran population – guidelines for the future
Project Start: 28/10/2020
The main goals of the project are to survey public opinion, and the obtained data will be processed as part of professional and scientific research in which renowned professors from three scientific organizations (Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Croatian Catholic University and University of Zadar) will participate, who will present their work in scientific articles and...
