STEM career aspirations during primary schooling: A cohort-sequential longitudinal study of relations between achievement, self-competence beliefs, and career interests
Project leader: Josip Burušić, PhD | Project Start: 01/09/2015
In the globalized and rapidly changing world, the issues of young people’s educational achievement and career aspirations are extremely important. These issues are especially relevant in vocations in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), which are technologically sophisticated and important for the development of the society. Since 1990s the int...
Livno and wider surroundings under Ottoman rule: peasants, citizens and Franciscans in search of justice in the light of Ottoman documents
Project Start: 01/03/2015
The goal of the project is to collect and digitize Ottoman materials (documents and manuscripts), but also relevant Franciscan materials (documents, chronicles, etc.) from the Ottoman period, from the archives of the Franciscan monastery in Livno. In this way, this extremely valuable and important material for the history of the Livonia region, but also of the Croatian people i...
Empirical analysis of the quality of life of persons with disabilities in the City of Zagreb
Project leader: Marko Marinić, PhD | Project Start: 15/12/2014
The goal of the project is to determine the real needs and problems they face by analyzing the quality of life in the City of Zagreb (objective and subjective indicators) of some people with disabilities. The analysis was carried out in three stages: 1) collection and analysis of existing databases and previous knowledge about the characteristics of the life of the population o...
Installation Project for REsearch about Social ENTrepreneurship
Project leader: Dražen Šimleša, PhD | Project Start: 15/09/2014
The main goal of iPRESENT (Installation Project for REsearch about Social ENTrepreneurship) project is to research capacities and potentials of social entrepreneurship as an environmentally friendly and socially responsible business model in Croatia. Social Entrepreneurship is one of the leading and growing phenomena, it has outcomes in social, economic and environmental fields...
Vocational Development in Adolescence: Setting the Adolescent Career Transition Model
Project leader: Iva Šverko, PhD | Project Start: 01/07/2014
The aim of this project is to develop, postulate and evaluate an Adolescent Career Transition Model (ACTM). For most people the adolescence is the tipping point for career decision making. Last grade high-school students have to decide between further education on universities or entering the world of work and finding a job. To successfully overcome this important career transi...
Second Homes and Social Sustainability of Local Communities in Croatia
Project leader: Geran Marko Miletić, PhD | Project Start: 01/06/2014
The planned project starts from the premise that second home use, i.e. occasional use of dwellings for vacation and recreation, is a strong factor in socio-spatial transformation. There is a constant growth of this trend in Croatia, whereby certain areas, or to be more precise, the coastal area is more exposed to second homes expansion. This increase in pressure of second homes...
Measuring Youth Well-Being
Project leader: Renata Franc, PhD | Project Start: 03/03/2014
MYWeB takes a balanced approach to assessing the feasibility of a European Longitudinal Study for Children and Young People (ELSCYP) through prioritising both scientific and policy imperatives. Striking the appropriate balance between science and policy is guaranteed through the use of an evaluation/appraisal methodology which ensures that the outcomes will be methodologically ...
Classical and contemporary approaches to data analysis of longitudinal research on family relationships and social competence of adolescents
Project Start: 01/09/2011
Classical and contemporary approaches to data analysis of longitudinal research on family relationships and social competence of adolescents.
Memory, Youth, Political Legacy And Civic Engagement
Project leader: Benjamin Perasović, PhD | Project Start: 01/06/2011
MYPLACE explores how young people‟s social participation is shaped by theshadows (past, present and future) of totalitarianism and populism in Europe.Conceptually, it goes beyond the comparison of discrete national „political cultures‟or reified classifications of political heritage („postcommunist‟/‟liberal democratic‟);it is premised rather on the pan-European nature of a ran...
European Social Survey 5th round
Project leader: Renata Franc, PhD | Project Start: 01/01/2011
The European Social Survey is conducted by surveying a representative sample of approximately 1,500 participants in each member state using the same questionnaire and a precisely determined methodology. The questionnaire consists of a central module that is applied in every two-year examination and an additional module that changes with regard to the current importance of certa...
The culture – society relation in Croatian modernisation
Project Start: 17/11/2008
The culture – society relation in Croatian modernisation.
Approaches to research on subjective well-being – research stay at the World Database of Happiness project, Department of Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Project Start: 01/10/2008
Approaches to research on subjective well-being – research stay at the World Database of Happiness project, Department of Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
