New perspectives on homelessness
Project leader: Lynette Šikić-Mićanović, PhD | Project Start: 28/10/2020
The goal of the project is to improve cooperation and encourage the networking of civil society organizations (CSOs), local and regional self-government units, and higher education and scientific institutions with the goal of developing evidence-based public policy guidelines that will increase social inclusion of people experiencing homelessness in the Republic of Croatia. The...
By strengthening social dialogue to healthy workplaces
Project leader: Ljiljana Kaliterna Lipovčan, PhD | Project Start: 24/07/2020
As part of the project, the aim of the research section carried out by the Pilar Institute team was to examine the quality of the working life of police officers. Research was conducted on the working conditions and quality of jobs in the police and the role of trade unions in the institutional support and protection of police officers. The starting point for the conceptualizat...
COVID19 International Collaboration on Social & Moral Psychology
Project leader: Renata Franc, PhD | Project Start: 22/04/2020
This international collaboration project brought together scientists and researchers around the world to investigate the psychological determinants of attitudes and behavioral intentions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The project is aimed at examining determinants such as beliefs in conspiracy theories, cooperation, risk perception, social and moral identities, national iden...
History of football club Gospić `91. – on the occasion of one hundred years of professional football in Gospić
Project leader: Ivan Brlić, PhD | Project Start: 15/02/2020
The central backbone of the project, which was commissioned by the Football Club Gospić ´91, was to scientifically research and present the historical development of professional football in Gospić, a sport marked by numerous players, clubs, football experts, enthusiasts and sports and cultural workers. The project on the history of football in Gospić presents not only sporting...
Child Well-being in Family Context
Project leader: Andreja Brajša-Žganec, PhD | Project Start: 01/02/2020
Children’s well-being is a multidimensional construct that includes cognitive, behavioral and emotional regulation, social competence and indicators of children’s subjective well-being. Recently, there has been an increasing emphasis on research into the subjective well-being of children. There is relatively little research on changes in different domains of well-be...
Establishing Criteria for the Evaluation of Modernization and (Post-)Transition Processes in Croatian Rural Areas Through a Case Study of the Rural Lika Area
Project leader: Anita Bušljeta-Tonković, PhD | Project Start: 01/02/2020
The aim of the project is to establish ideal-type interdisciplinary criteria for evaluating modernisation and (post-)transition processes in Croatian rural areas based on a case study of the rural Lika area. The proposed subject will be studied by employing contemporary modernization theories and development theories, in which an innovative approach to methodology based on mixe...
European Inventory of Societal Values of Culture as a Basis for Inclusive Cultural Policies in the Globalizing World
Project leader: Inga Tomić-Koludrović, PhD | Project Start: 01/02/2020
The New EU Agenda for Culture (2018) represents an exceptionally significant step forward in European cultural policy. However, it seems to us that this remarkably important new focus of the EU on the sphere of culture is accompanied by theoretical and methodological challenges, which should be considered in the process of realizing the presented goals. The changes which Europe...
The First World War in the Culture of Memory. Forgotten Heritage
Project leader: Ljiljana Dobrovšak, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2020
The aim of this research is to initiate scholarly debate on the 1st WW ‘cultural memory’ in Croatia based on newly acquired knowledge about its researched cultural heritage in order to determine causes and why it contributed to the contemporary social phenomenon of ‘forgetness’ related to the 1st WW in Croatia. The research objective is to examine the 1st WW ‘cultural memory’ i...
The Model of Free Career Choice: The Role of Autonomous Career Motivation and Protective and Risk Factors in Career Development of Adolescents
Project leader: Iva Šverko, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2020
The FreeCareerChoice project is aimed at examining the career decision process during adolescence. Theories of career choice and development generally do not deal with a wide range of protective and risk factors that affect the freedom to choose an occupation, nor do they devote themselves to the motivational processes that drive young people to decide on their occupation. As p...
Preventing Smoking, Alcohol and Internet addictions among children and adolescents: a family oriented training approach for adult learners and educators
Project leader: Renata Glavak-Tkalić, PhD | Project Start: 01/11/2019
Addiction to tobacco and alcohol are transnational public health and social problems, and in recent times problematic use of the Internet has also appeared, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Given that children and adolescents are particularly vulnerable groups, prevention is extremely important. The goal of the ADD-freeTraining project is the development and implementat...
Transition Dialogue 2019-2022. Dealing with change in democratic ways
Project leader: Caroline Hornstein-Tomić, PhD | Project Start: 01/09/2019
The project deals with the question of how the transition from communism to democracy and the market economy is taught in schools and in the informal education sector. The project also investigates how the resources used by teachers/educators can be enriched and more diverse. Seven partners from Central and Eastern Europe – Latvia, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, Croa...
Surveys of the perception and attitudes of the target groups of the project and monitoring of the socio-economic impact of the implementation of the LIFE ARTINA project
Project Start: 19/07/2019
The project Research of the perception and attitudes of the target groups and assessment of the socio-economic impact of the project LIFE ARTINA – LIFE17 NAT/HR1000594 “Seabird Conservation Network in the Adriatic” is carried out in cooperation with the Association for Nature, Environment and Sustainable Development “Sun”, which is a partner in the...
