Projects

Competitive research projects

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Principal investigator: Boris Jokić, Ph.D.Project start: 01.04.2023.

Critical ChangeLab - Democracy meets arts: Critical change labs for building democratic cultures through creative and narrative practices

The Critical ChangeLab project aims to reinvigorate the relationship between youth and democracy, and consequently the future of 21st Century European democracy. This is achieved by spearheading the reach and impact of the Critical ChangeLab Model of Democratic Pedagogy, fostering youth's active democratic citizenship at a time where polarisation, deep political divisions and declining trust in democracy are spreading across Europe.

Project leader: Josip Šabić, Ph.D.Project start: 01.01.2024.

Educational and Career Plans of Youth in Music Education - MUSICPLAN

Educational and career plans of youth who attend music education are an underexplored area. There is a particular lack of research that would, in an attempt to detect possible determinants of these plans, bring together various theoretical perspectives, and that would include samples of youth of different age. This project will explore possible determinants of educational and career plans of youth who attend music education in Croatia. In the conceptualisation of the project, the starting points are the self-determination theory and the theory of cultural reproduction.

Project leader: Anđelina Svirčić Gotovac, Ph.D.Project start: 01.01.2024.

Effects of the Europeanization Process in Selected Urban-Rural Areas of Croatia – HREUURBRUR

Upon the EU accession, Croatia signed a number of strategic documents by which it became entitled to carry out the public policies that the EU promotes as the Europeanization process. As of 2021, Croatia has been divided into 4 NUTS2 regions: Pannonian Croatia, Adriatic Croatia, the City of Zagreb and Northern Croatia, in which the Europeanization process will be explored.

Project leader: Branko Ančić, Ph.D.Project start: 01.01.2024.

International Social Survey Programme – ISSP

Project description The ISSP project aims to ensure the continuity of implementing the ISSP research in Croatia, which has been carried out at the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb (ISRZ) since 2005. The project will include four modules of the ISSP research: Family and Gender Roles, National Identities and Citizenship, Digital Societies and Work Orientations. These modules will enable a more in-depth understanding of the Croatian society in the domains of family, gender roles, national identity, digitalization and labour, by also providing a comparative approach to these topics.

Principal investigator: Lana Peternel, Ph.D.Project start: 01.10.2022.

Isolated People and Communities in Slovenia and Croatia – ISOLATION

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought several relevant issues to the forefront, including physical and social isolation, which is the focus of this project. We will use an anthropological approach to explain what it means to be isolated. Through ethnographic studies in isolated social spaces and abandoned areas, we will show how isolation shapes the experiences of insularity and emptiness in urban and rural areas among individuals and communities in Slovenia and Croatia. We will also explore how different modalities of isolation shape experiences, values, and attitudes toward the environment and the future.