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Institute for Research in Social Communication SAS

ATHENA - Implementing gender equality plans to unlock research potential of RPOs and RFOs in Europe

ATHENA - Implementácia plánov rodovej rovnosti s cieľom podpory výskumného potenciálu výskumných a výskum-financujúcich organizácií v Európe

Duration: 1.2.2021 - 31.1.2025
Program: Horizon 2020
Project leader: doc. PhDr. Bianchi Gabriel DrSc.
Annotation:One of the main objectives of Europe’s societies is the elimination of all types of discrimination associated with gender. Despite a high number of highly skilled female graduates, there is still very few of them embracing a research career. With almost 60% of women graduates in EU, only one third of the EU’s researchers are women. In this context, ATHENA project aims at removing barriers to the recruitment, retention and career progression of female researchers; address gender imbalances in decision making processes and generate a cultural change needed to avoid future gender bias and discriminatory practices through the implementation of Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) in 6 Research Performing and 2 Research Funding organisations. These targeted organisations belong to Central Eastern EU countries and EU outermost regions that show some of the lowest Gender Equality Indexes in the EU. Thanks to the implementation of the GEPs, ATHENA will contribute to unlocking the research potential of these organisations thus improving the overall performance of the European Research Area and helping to close the innovation divide by avoiding the waste of talent and inefficient use of skilled women from weaker regions of the EU. To ensure systemic institutional change, ATHENA will first conduct an assessment of procedures and practices already in place in partner RPOs and RFOs, together with an analysis of the national legislation and policy frameworks. In parallel, it will put in place a participatory process aimed, on one side, to understand the needs and the preferences of the stakeholders and, on the other side, to train them with regard to selected topics related to gender. Based on these two approaches GEPs will be drafted, implemented and monitored in each partner organisation. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101006416.

Explaining the Effects of Social Identity Complexity on Majority Members Acculturation Preferences

Komplexnosť sociálnej identity a jej vplyv na akulturačné preferencie príslušníkov majority

Duration: 1.1.2024 - 31.12.2024
Program: Bilateral - other
Project leader: Mgr. Poslon Xenia Daniela PhD.
Annotation:Social psychology has provided numerous tools to improve intergroup relations, while approaches emphasizing common identity with the outgroup and recategorization of groups using multiple categories have shown most potential. Yet, these strategies, primarily centered on challenging the perception of a single outgroup, pose certain limitations, especially regarding generalizability. In contrast, approach based on social identity complexity focuses on a more complex perception of the self instead of merely diminishing the psychological boundaries between ingroups and outgroups. Social identity complexity refers to an individual's subjective representation of the interrelationships among their multiple group identities, and it has been already associated with greater outgroup tolerance and improved attitudes, including greater approval of affirmative action and multiculturalism. The aim of the project is to establish and investigate the link between perceiving social complexity of one’s own social identity and the tendency to perceive more complexity within the outgroups, and examine possible underlying mechanisms of the link between social identity complexity and positive intergroup attitudes in the context of perceptions for immigrants’ acculturation.

Holocaust distortion in populist politics in central and eastern Europe.

Skresľovanie holokaustu v populistickej politike v strednej a východnej Európe.

Duration: 1.5.2024 - 30.4.2025
Program: Bilateral - other
Project leader: Mgr. Lášticová Barbara PhD.
Annotation:The main outcome of the project is to measure key distortions in Holocaust knowledge that are utilized in populist politics. This includes overestimations of ingroups’ heroic behavior during the Holocaust (exaggerated views on the population involved in rescuing Jews during the Holocaust), as well as minimizing the scale of collaboration. We will also assess historical instrumentalism (a view that sacrifices truth for the sake of national interests) and distortive uses of Holocaust history in relation to the current conflict in the Middle East. By assessing this in 6 different populations (including Poland) we would be able to identify which of these distortions are most prevalent in a given country. This approach will allow us to determine the specific gaps in the educational curricula that might lead to such distortions.

Social survey of Ukrainian migrants in Slovakia

UKR - Spoločenská sonda ukrajinských migrantov a migrantiek na Slovensku

Duration: 1.9.2023 - 31.12.2024
Program: Bilateral - other
Project leader: Mgr. Lášticová Barbara PhD.

The total number of projects: 4