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Creative Region III.

Duration: 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2025
Evidence number:TKP2021-NKTA-22
Program: Iné
Project leader: Mgr. Sáposová Zlatica PhD.

ENIS - ENIS - European Network on International Student Mobility: Connecting Research and Practice

ENIS - Európska sieť o medzinárodnej mobilite študentov: Prepojenie výskumu a praxe

Duration: 1. 10. 2021 - 31. 10. 2025
Evidence number:COST Action CA20115
Program: COST
Project leader: Ing. Chrančoková Martina PhD.
Annotation:Over the past decades, international student mobility (ISM) in higher education has expanded rapidly. This growth has sparked a considerable interest in ISM within different disciplines, research communities, and circles of practitioners and policy makers. However, there is surprisingly little connection and exchange among researchers across these spheres. In addition, ISM scholarship remains strongly restricted to scientific circles, despite the relevance that scientific knowledge on ISM has for policy and daily practice. This Action responds to the pressing need for systematic interdisciplinary and international exchange of knowledge on theoretical frameworks, research methodologies, findings, and best practice examples, and for translating scientific findings into recommendations for ISM practice. It is organised around five working groups, four of them addressing themes in need of scientific development, and a fifth one bringing together recommendations for practice: (1) Global ISM flows and trends at the macro-level; (2) Social inequalities in access to and during ISM; (3) The social and cultural integration of international students in their host countries; (4) The impact of ISM on graduates’ careers; (5) Connecting research and practice. The Action brings together established researchers, early-career investigators (ECIs) and PhD students from different scientific disciplines, countries, and research communities as well as stakeholders from international offices, international student and study abroad organizations, and different policy levels. The Action will offer comparative and practical insights into ISM dynamics by bringing fragmented knowledge together, with the main aim of generating new interdisciplinary and innovative empirical perspectives on the phenomenon and translating these into tangible recommendations for stakeholders. Action keywords international student mobility - study abroad - international student migration - internationalisation - exchanges.
Project web page:https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA20115/

ESS - European Social Survey

Európska sociálna sonda

Duration: 1. 1. 2004 -
Evidence number:2004SP2006KOA0309
Program: Iné
Project leader: Mgr. Fedáková Denisa PhD.
Annotation:The ESS (European Social Survey) is an international European academic project since 2001. The main aim of the project is to measure and compare selected aspects of social, political and cultural life in participating countries in biennial cycles - rounds. The possibility to analyse developmental trends in the social sphere within the ESS is based on two fundamental requirements - repeating measures and cross-cultural comparisons.
Project web page:https://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/about/country/slovakia/

Inclusive CEE - Challenges Faced by Ukrainian Refugees in Secondary Cities in the CEE region: Promoting Inclusion and Social Cohesion through Inclusive Public Spaces

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Duration: 20. 1. 2024 - 30. 6. 2025
Evidence number:22330013
Program: International Visegrad Fund (IVF)
Project leader: Mgr. Papcunová Jana PhD.
Annotation:Our project addresses the challenges Ukrainian refugees encounter in secondary cities across the CEE region, emphasizing social cohesion, integration, and discrimination. Our ultimate objective is to foster inclusion, boost social cohesion, combat hate speech and discrimination, and create a more welcoming environment for Ukrainian refugees throughout Central and Eastern Europe.
Project web page:https://inclusivecee.eu/

PROFEEDBACK - Platform of policy evaluation community for improved EU policies and better acknowledgement

Platform of policy evaluation community for improved EU policies and better acknowledgement

Duration: 18. 10. 2021 - 17. 10. 2025
Evidence number:COST Action CA20112
Program: COST
Project leader: Mgr. Polačková Zuzana M.A., PhD.
Annotation:The Action PROFEEDBACK (PlatfoRm OF policy Evaluation community for improvED EU policies and Better ACKnowledgement) aims to foster the networking of the policy evaluation community at EU-level, raise awareness on the importance of evaluation policy research and improve its impact on policy-making. The Platform, following a bottom-up and open approach, will gather researchers and professionals from various scientific fields and sectors to present and evaluate theories, topics, tools and methods of policy evaluation. Results of the Europe-wide assessment of good practices will provide direct and high-quality inputs for national and EU bodies responsible for policy evaluation. Policy evaluation is a key tool in understanding, developing and modernising EU policies, thus there is growing demand for EU-wide and high quality evaluation services. The main challenge is that currently there is no bottom-up platform for European researchers and professionals working in policy evaluation. They have limited possibilities to discuss common problems, assess country specific practices and share their knowledge in a mutually beneficial and effective way. PROFEEDBACK aims to tackle this challenge with an innovative, complex, cross-sectoral and multidisciplinary approach by: analysing the theoretical and methodological questions of evaluation policy research putting special focus on Cohesion Policy, enriching scientific research of policy evaluation and addressing new challenges, harmonizing fragmented approaches to set the research agenda and to get a common understanding, contributing to the capacity building of the policy evaluation community, involving national and EU policy-makers and the civil society to contribute to evidence-based policymaking, framing a Code of Conduct for the policy evaluation community.
Project web page:https://profeedback.eu/about/

TURN - Addressing industrial relations towards circular economy in metal, chemical, textile, energy and construction sectors

Riešenie priemyselných vzťahov smerom k obehovému hospodárstvu v kovospracujúcom, chemickom, textilnom, energetickom a stavebnom sektore

Duration: 1. 11. 2023 - 31. 10. 2025
Evidence number:101126108
Program: European Commision
Project leader: Mgr. Filčák Richard MSc. PhD.
Annotation:The TURN project coordinated by SindNova, in partnership with FEMCA CISL, FIM CISL, FILCA CISL, FUNDACION 1° DE MAYO (Spain), OZIPLIK IS, TURK METAL SENDIKASI (Turkey), CO-PLAN, FS PISH (Albania) CSPV, KOZSR (Slovakia), CC.OO. INDUSTRIA, INDUSTRIALL, EFWWB (Belgium) and co-financed by the European Commission, has the aim of investigating the action and reaction of the countries involved in the project and the predisposition of the sectors (chemical, textile, energy, metalworking and construction) to the transition to circular economy model. The objective is to improve and adapt/readapt its production systems in line with the European action plan towards the circular transition. The EU’s transition to a circular economy will reduce pressure on natural resources and will create sustainable growth and jobs. In March 2020, the European Commission adopted the new circular economy action plan (CEAP), that is one of the main building blocks of the European Green Deal, Europe’s new agenda for sustainable growth. The new action plan targets how products are designed, promotes circular economy processes, encourages sustainable consumption, aims to ensure that waste is prevented, and the resources used are kept in the EU economy for as long as possible, and introduces legislative and non-legislative measures targeting areas where action at the EU level brings real added value.
Project web page:https://www.sindnova.it/en_GB/progetti-europei/turn

NEXUSNET - NETWORK ON WATER-ENERGY-FOOD NEXUS FOR A LOW-CARBON ECONOMY IN EUROPE AND BEYOND

SIEŤ PRE NEXUS VODY, ENERGIE A POTRAVÍN PRE NÍZKOHLÍKOVÉ HOSPODÁRSTVO V EURÓPE A ĎALEJ

Duration: 22. 9. 2021 - 21. 9. 2025
Evidence number:CA20138
Program: COST
Project leader: Mgr. Filčák Richard MSc. PhD.

n/a - SSE and SEs in Poland and Slovakia: Common legacies and different trajectories

Sociálna a solidárna ekonomika a sociálne podniky v Poľsku a na Slovensku: Spoločné dedičstvo a rozdielne trajektórie

Duration: 1. 1. 2025 - 31. 12. 2026
Evidence number:PAS-SAS-2024-11
Program: Mobility
Project leader: Mgr. Polačková Zuzana M.A., PhD.
Annotation:The project investigates the current condition of social and solidarity economy/ social enterprises (SSE/SEs) in Poland and Slovakia. It assumes a careful investigation of four aspects related to the existence, resilience and sustainability of SSE/Ses, which are: a) local contexts and local ecosystems, ii) interconnections between SSE/SEs and social innovations, iii) legal frameworks and iv) relationships between SSE/SEs and the state/municipalities. New institutionalism becomes the theoretical driving force for this project, especially when approaching similar governance and administrative traditions in Poland and Slovakia. Researchers also reach for concepts rooted in Public Administration and Management. The project uses qualitative methods and lasts for 24 months.

PACES - Making migration and migration policy decisions amidst societal transformations

Tvorba migračných rozhodnutí a migračných politík v čase transformačných spoločenských zmien

Duration: 1. 3. 2023 - 30. 6. 2026
Evidence number:101094279
Program: Horizont Európa
Project leader: Mgr., MA Mýtna Kureková Lucia PhD.
Annotation:PACES offers a groundbreaking approach to studying and understanding people’s decisions to migrate and explores how this knowledge can better inform migration policies. PACES focuses on two parallel research components: the factors shaping migration decision-making and the mechanisms underpinning migration policies. Synthesizing theoretical and empirical knowledge from a broad array of academic disciplines and methodological paradigms, the project systematically investigates the interactions between migration decisions, migration policies and broader social transformation – as manifested in interconnected processes of economic, political, demographic, technological and cultural change. Based on a theoretical synthesis and qualitative and quantitative data collected in Algeria, Ethiopia, Italy, Libya, Slovakia and Spain, PACES will elaborate a heuristic model that identifies different constellations of conditions that shape decisions to stay and migrate at different stages of individual life trajectories and migrant journeys. In addition, by adopting a theories of change approach, PACES will systematically investigate, identify and track the assumptions on migration decisions used by policymakers to formulate policy designs and objectives. By exploring the evolution of EU and national labour and family migration policies, PACES reveals the extent to which current migration policies are evidence-based and areas where policies may benefit from valuable insights from migration decision-making research. By doing so, PACES seeks to challenge dominant political narratives and assumptions underlying policies and contribute to elaborating more effective models of EU migration governance that account for the uncertainties of social transformations. Supported by an interdisciplinary consortium of experienced partners, PACES engages in co-participatory research with policymakers, stakeholders, citizens and migrants to generate maximum scientific, political and social impact.
Project web page:https://www.prog.sav.sk/tvorba-migracnych-rozhodnuti-a-migracnych-politik-v-case-transformacnych-spolocenskych-zmien/

Health and Psychosocial Long-term Effects and Coping Resources in Severe or Critical COVID-19 Survivors: A Qualitative Study

Zdravotné a psychosociálne dlhodobé účinky a zvládacie zdroje u ťažkých alebo kritických prípadov ochorenia COVID-19: kvalitatívna štúdia

Duration: 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2025
Evidence number:ANSO-CR-PP-2021-10
Program: ANSO
Project leader: Prof. Mgr. Halama Peter PhD.
Annotation:Post-COVID-19 syndrome is a condition characterized by long-term symptoms and complications that continue or develop after acute COVID-19. It has been found the majority (up to 80%) of patients admitted to hospital with severe COVID-19 disease experience long-term physical and psychological symptoms. The study aims to qualitatively explore the experiences of severe or critical COVID-19 adult survivors throughout the post-acute period (within 1 year post hospital discharge) in four Eastern and Central European countries: Bulgaria, Slovakia, Croatia, and Romania. It will examine both negative (physical and mental health symptoms, cognitive symptoms, post-traumatic stress, difficulties in social functioning, diminished functional ability, etc.) and positive (post-traumatic growth) long-term post-COVID effects and will assess the role of survivors’ personal (e.g., self-efficacy, resilience, hope, optimism), social (e.g., social support) and other (e.g., financial) coping resources in the recovery period. A biopsychosocial public health perspective is adopted. Participants include 128 adult severe or critical COVID-19 survivors (32 participants per country) of all ages, with varying length of the post-acute period (up to 1 month, 1-3 months, 3-6 months, and 6+ months post discharge). The study will collect data through in-depth semi-structured interviews and analyze them through thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006). Survivors’ experiences will be studied as embedded in the local sociocultural context and the local epidemic-related situations in the participating countries. To our knowledge this will be the first study to qualitatively examine and cross-nationally compare the experiences of severe or critical COVID-19 survivors throughout the post-acute period. It will study lived experience of severe or critical COVID-19 survivors from a region of Europe that is insufficiently explored. Knowing patients’ experiences enables better understanding of their needs for support and will allow for the development of socioculturally appropriate tailored approaches to the treatment of post-COVID-19 syndrome and psychosocial support in the recovery process.

National Projects

Acceptance and use of Innovations 4.0 in relation to cognitive gains and load in the context of sustainable development goals

Akceptácia a používanie inovácií 4.0 vo vzťahu ku kognitívnym prínosom a záťaži v kontexte cieľov udržateľného rozvoja

Duration: 1. 1. 2024 - 31. 12. 2026
Evidence number:2/0013/24
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Mgr. Porubčinová Martina PhD.

METASK - A large-scale meta-scientific analysis of the state of Slovak studies and final theses in social sciences

Analýza stavu slovenských vedeckých výstupov a záverečných prác v spoločenských vedách

Duration: 1. 7. 2023 - 30. 6. 2026
Evidence number:APVV-22-0458
Program: APVV
Project leader: doc. Mgr. Martončik Marcel PhD.

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Communication in context: neurocognitive mechanisms of naturalistic communication in autistic adolescents

Duration: 1. 10. 2024 - 31. 7. 2026
Evidence number:09I03-03-V04-00740
Program: Plán obnovy EÚ
Project leader: Mgr. Bašnáková Jana PhD.

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Časové a priestorové zmeny rodinných domácností na Slovensku a ich možné faktory

Duration: 1. 1. 2023 - 31. 12. 2025
Evidence number:2/0064/23
Program: VEGA
Project leader: doc. RNDr. PhDr. Šprocha Branislav PhD.

Russo-Ukrainian war disinformation: the effect of debunking vs. prebunking

Dezinformácie o vojne na Ukrajine: odhaľovanie (debunk) vs. preventívne vyvracanie (prebunk)

Duration: 1. 1. 2024 - 31. 12. 2025
Evidence number:GV-2023-7-P12
Program: Nadácia NBS - Veda a výskum
Project leader: Ing. Lorko Matej PhD.
Annotation:Disinformation triggers various social conflicts and distrust in the democratic establishments. The aim of the project is to experimentally compare the effectiveness of debunking disinformation about the Russo-Ukrainian war with the effectiveness of its preemptive refutation (prebunking). The project will generate recommendations for effective communication about disinformation, which could reduce the trust in false information.

Environmental attitudes, pro-environmental behaviour and its promotion

Environmentálne postoje, pro-environmentálne správanie a jeho podpora

Duration: 1. 1. 2024 - 31. 12. 2026
Evidence number:VEGA č. 1/0764/24
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Mgr. Sáposová Zlatica PhD.
Annotation:In the context of the Green Transition, people need to feel a personal responsibility to act to limit climate change. The aim of the project is to explore environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior and to increase pro-environmental behavior in the workplace using behavioral interventions. The project will focus on the analysis of environmental factors with respect to selected demographic characteristics, psychological characteristics and politics. In relation to this, the researchers will study how organizations in the public and private sectors promote pro-environmental behavior in the work environment, both from an organizational and employee perspective. Based on the findings, our intent is to discuss recommendations for the design of behavioral interventions aimed at increasing pro-environmental behavior.

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From Blame Allocation to Human Perception: A New Approach to Understanding Conspiracy Theories

Duration: 1. 12. 2024 - 30. 6. 2026
Evidence number:09I03-03-V04-00585
Program: Plán obnovy EÚ
Project leader: Žilinský Ján PhD

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Hĺbková štúdia energetickej núdze (chudoby)

Duration: 1. 5. 2022 - 30. 4. 2028
Program: Iné projekty
Project leader: RNDr. Dokupilová Dušana PhD.

HOLOJUSLO - The Holocaust and its Aftermath in The Territory of Southern Slovakia, 1938 - 1948

Holokaust a jeho následky na území južného Slovenska, 1938 - 1948

Duration: 1. 7. 2024 - 30. 6. 2028
Evidence number: APVV-23-0418
Program: APVV
Project leader: Szeghy-Gayer Veronika PhD.
Annotation:The project aims to improve research on the Holocaust concerning the territory of daily Southern Slovakia in the period between 1938 and 1948. The geographic area under investigation is a specific border region that belonged to the Hungarian Kingdom between 1938 and 1945, and its social history is one of the most overlooked issues in modern Slovak historiography and educational programs. In the project, on the example of selected towns and localities, the research team consisting of scholars from Slovakia and abroad will carry out research with the aim of mapping the different patterns of the genocide during WWII in the Slovak-Hungarian border region (including anti-Jewish legislation, the process of Jewish deportations in 1941 and 1944, the Aryanization of Jewish property), as well as its aftermath (reintegration of Jews into the local societies, postwar antisemitism and property restitution) in the immediate post-WWII period. The research team established under the project would be the first group of scholars to investigate the wartime genocide in this particular region of daily Slovakia and in a Central European comparative context. The principal investigator of the project is Veronika Szeghy-Gayer, a highly experienced scholar whose research focuses on nationalism and minority issues, with particular attention to the inter-ethnic and genocide studies in the Southern Slovakia region. The main output of the project will be a workshop, a thematic issue in English in a high-impact scientific journal and an edited volume published in two language versions (Slovak and Hungarian).

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Integrácia preživších holokaustu na území južného Slovenska v rokoch 1945-1948

Duration: 1. 7. 2024 - 31. 12. 2025
Evidence number:APD0033
Program: PostdokGrant
Project leader: Mgr. Fogelová Patrícia PhD.

Commentary on the Book of Canticles

Komentár ku Knihe Pieseň piesní

Duration: 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2025
Evidence number:2/0118/22
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Varšo Miroslav Dr. theol.

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Koncepty a naratívy dôchodku: ich implikácie v rôznych fázach procesu adaptácie na dôchodok

Duration: 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2025
Evidence number:VEGA č. 2/0091/22
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Prof. Mgr. Halama Peter PhD.

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Konšpiračné presvedčenia a ich vplyv na medziľudské vzťahy

Duration: 1. 1. 2025 - 31. 12. 2025
Program: DoktoGrant
Project leader: Mgr. Godžáková Dana

EVIQUA - The quality of empirical evidence in psychology and education

Kvalita empirických dôkazov v psychológii a pedagogike

Duration: 1. 9. 2024 - 31. 8. 2027
Evidence number:APVV-23-0421
Program: APVV
Project leader: Mgr. Adamkovič Matúš PhD.
Annotation:Evidence-based interventions and policy decisions assume and require the integrity and empirical robustness of published research. This holds particularly true in psychology and education, where interventions can profoundly alter individual trajectories and broader social structures. When policies are based on flawed or biased evidence, the consequences can be dire, leading to ineffective interventions, waste of resources, and potentially causing harm. Among all types of scientific evidence, it is causal evidence that is foundational for explaining the complex mechanisms at play within educational systems and psychological processes. Randomized experiments and meta- analyses have emerged as the gold-standard tools in this endeavor, guiding both policy and future research. However, recent research across social sciences revealed that many key findings lack the assumed empirical robustness, urging a comprehensive reevaluation of what constitutes sound evidence. The present project proposes an integrated research program to study the quality of evidence in education and psychology. By scrutinizing the data underlying experiments and meta-analyses, we aim to gain a nuanced understanding of their strengths and weaknesses, fostering more realistic expectations about the informativeness and applicability of findings from these studies. We plan to study specific indications of questionable integrity and empirical robustness of the reported evidence. We will also study, develop, and showcase specific methodological solutions for drawing more robust causal inferences from various research designs, increasing the informativeness and generalizability of randomized experiments, and adjusting for publication bias in meta-analytic syntheses. Lastly, we intend to develop and pilot a prompting architecture for a Large Language Model to automate certain tasks, thus enhancing the scalability of meta-research.

MaRoCoHazard - Marginalized Roma concentrations in the context of natural threats and social inequity

Marginalizované rómske koncentrácie v kontexte prírodných hrozieb a sociálnej nerovnosti

Duration: 1. 7. 2023 - 30. 6. 2027
Evidence number:APVV-22-0428
Program: APVV
Project leader: Mgr. Polačková Zuzana M.A., PhD.
Annotation:Marginalized Roma concentrations in environmentally unstable areas (floods, landslides, contamination) together with their social status and population trend represent a very current research challenge in the context of increasing society's resilience, especially to flood risk. The present project responds to this challenge and the research focuses mainly on the analysis of: i) flood exposure of Roma settlements, whether due to the impact of morphological changes in river channels or evolution trends of segregated Roma settlements, ii) vulnerability of marginalized Roma concentrations to flood risk due to their social status, iii) public policies in terms of their effectiveness to help Roma communities in settlements to cope with the negative consequences of flood hazard, iv) the natural environment around Roma settlements in the context of its impact on flood risk compared to the rest /majority population. Research will be carried out at national, regional and local levels. Methodologically, the project is based on data obtained by multitemporal analysis of remote sensing data, morphometric analysis of georelief, data on socio-economic and spatial-functional relationships and data obtained from field research.

Distrust mindset and non-normative behaviour: From perceptions of social reality to violations of social norms

Nedôverčivá mentalita a nenormatívne správanie: Od vnímania sociálnej reality k porušovaniu sociálnych noriem

Duration: 1. 1. 2024 - 31. 12. 2027
Evidence number:VEGA 2/0030/24
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Mgr. Grežo Matúš PhD.

POSPO - Polarized society: From political orientation to protecting moral values

Polarizovaná spoločnosť: Od politickej orientácie k ochrane morálnych hodnôt

Duration: 1. 7. 2024 - 30. 6. 2028
Evidence number:APVV-23-0127
Program: APVV
Project leader: Mgr. Grežo Matúš PhD.

PostdokGrant: Navigating Complexity - Enhancing Integration Pathways for Ukrainian Refugees in the CEE Region

PostdokGrant: Navigácia komplexity - Zlepšovanie integračných ciest ukrajinských utečencov a utečenkýň v strednej a východnej Európe

Duration: 1. 7. 2024 - 31. 12. 2025
Evidence number:APD00613
Program: PostdokGrant
Project leader: Mgr. Papcunová Jana PhD.

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Priestorové diferenciácie prirodzeného pohybu obyvateľstva na Slovensku od konca 19. storočia do konca 20. rokov 20. storočia

Duration: 1. 1. 2023 - 31. 12. 2025
Evidence number:1/0231/23
Program: VEGA
Project leader: doc. RNDr. PhDr. Šprocha Branislav PhD.

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Psychologické konštrukty a kontextové rámce determinujúce zámer dievčat a žien študovať odbory informačných a komunikačných technológií (IKT)

Duration: 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2025
Evidence number:2/0146/22
Program: VEGA
Project leader: PhDr. Pethö Tatiana PhD.
Annotation:Despite the same objective performance results in ICT, girls do not reach a long-term or 15% representation at university in Slovakia. Girls' decision to study ICT arises gradually and is influenced by many psychological constructs. The Expectancy- value theory (EVT) has been successfully applied in recent decades to explore the choice of a particular course of study however i) in the field of ICT, even abroad, it has been studied only in a partial way, ii) it has not been studied in Slovakia at all, iii) at the same time newer, hitherto empirically unverified approaches appear. The aim of the interdisciplinary project is to examine psychological constructs in Slovak girls and women as determinants of the intention to study ICT: i) empirically verify and compare new theoretical approaches, (ii) test the effect and relationships of previously unexplored psychological constructs. At the same time, the historical context of the study of women at secondary schools and universities in Slovakia will be analysed.

PSYCOVID - Psychological context of unfounded information and beliefs related to the COVID-19 pandemic

Psychologické súvislosti nepodložených informácií a presvedčení súvisiacich s pandémiou COVID-19.

Duration: 1. 7. 2021 - 30. 6. 2025
Evidence number:APVV-20-0387
Program: APVV
Project leader: Prof. Mgr. Halama Peter PhD.

RedDesInfo - Reducing the spread of disinformation, psuedoscience and bullshit

Redukovanie šírenia dezinformácií a nepodložených presvedčení

Duration: 1. 7. 2021 - 30. 6. 2025
Evidence number:APVV-20-0335
Program: APVV
Project leader: doc. PaedDr. Kurincová Čavojová Vladimíra PhD.
Annotation:Disinformation and epistemically suspect beliefs (ESBs) are no longer a domain of few obscure websites, but they increasingly become part of the mainstream discourse, as the number of people endorsing them is growing. To address these challenges the project will focus on the identification of cognitive, personality and social factors that underlie endorsing and spreading of disinformation and ESBs with the aim to verify several possibilities how to reduce these unfounded beliefs and disinformation stemming from them. The project will test four main intervention approaches aiming at reducing disinformation and ESBs: (1) increasing scientific thinking, (2) inoculation by counter-arguments, (3) information intervention increasing analytical thinking, and (4) manipulation of situational variables affecting the willingness to share bullshit. Ambition of the project is to expand the focus from the correlational studies to experimental verification of causal influences of the identified predictors, and from the understanding why people believe in ESBs to verification of possibilities how to reduce the spread of disinformation. Previous universal intervention efforts failed, which emphasize the importance of targeting the specific intervention depending on the characteristics of the target groups of people, therefore, one of the project's aims is to explore also the moderators of the efficacy of the tested interventions. Another related aim of the project is identification of the most vulnerable groups not only in terms of their inclination to ESBs, but also in terms of the health and economic consequences, or political radicalization. Results of the project will contribute to psychological knowledge of this rapidly growing field of study, and they will also lead to practical recommendations in the form of best-practices how to effectively reduce the spread of disinformation.

Roma in late socialism - socialism in the memory of Roma

Rómovia v neskorom socializme - socializmus v pamäti Rómov

Duration: 1. 1. 2023 - 31. 12. 2026
Evidence number:2/0117/23
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Mgr. Žuk Klara PhD.
Annotation:The project presents basic historical and oral-historical research focused on the everyday life of Roma between 1968–1989. The aim of the project is to fill the knowledge gap in the form of life stories and to present the defined period through the eyes of members of the Roma minority. During research on Roma history, researchers encounter a number of barriers specific to this area of research. In the past, the absence of written documents was compensated by the Roma themselves with the spoken word. Archival materials on Roma history do exist, but they often lie unprocessed in archives. While some historical events relating to Roma history have been researched, information on everyday life during the period of socialism in Czechoslovakia is incomplete and systematic research from the perspective of the Roma minority is completely absent. The project will focus on field-based oral history research that will present what images of everyday life during the socialist period are communicated in the memories of the narrators, as well as how their attitudes are influenced by the fact that they lived part of their lives under socialism. In addition to oral history, the project will also devote space to archival research that will focus on mapping the policies of the state socialist regime aimed at the cultural and social integration of Roma into mainstream society.

UNWEAVING THE NARRATIVES RELATED TO THE COUNCIL OF FLORENCE

ROZPLIETANIE NARATÍVOV O FLORENTSKOM KONCILE

Duration: 1. 1. 2023 - 31. 12. 2026
Evidence number:VEGA 2/0056/23
Program: VEGA
Project leader: PhDr. Hlaváčová Anna CSc.
Annotation:In order to understand the Russian history narrative, it is necessary to focus on the political situation between the Union of Florence (1439) and the fall of Constantinople (1453). Therefore, the aim of the project is to examine the corpus of 15th century Cyrillic documents, written directly by the members of metropolitan Isidore's delegation that travelled to the Council of Florence. In our examination of the Cyrillic travelogue it turned out that this primary, pro-union oriented source had a direct impact on several other documents, including the document opposing the union. On the basis of this discovery, we propose further, more systematic literary and historical analysis of all these documents – with the perspective of establishing a time order between them. This will help us to date more precisely the emergence of the first anti-union oriented Cyrillic text and to focus the view on the changed historical circumstances in which the Russian seclusionist narrative began to take shape.

Slovakia 2030

Slovensko 2030

Duration: 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2025
Evidence number:2/0001/22
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Ing. Nemcová Edita PhD.
Annotation:The project explores selected economic, social and environmental development set in the Agenda 2030 for the Slovak Republic. The last decade was typical with slowdown in global economic growth. The slowdown was caused by deglobalisation trends and increasing environmental costs. Slowdown in global economic growth currently is amplified by pandemic The project will concentrate on those goals, where the project team has a long-term expertise in analysis and policy formations (Goal 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth and Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure). The key target of the research include: (i) providing deeper theoretical understanding for Goals 8 and 9 of the Agenda 2030; (ii) delivering complex analyses needed for upgrade of the Agenda 2030 in the post-pandemic period and era of profound technology and social change; (iii) proposing mix of social and economic policies for long-tern economic and social sustainability of the Slovak Republic.

Strategies, resources and consequences of emotion regulation in the provision of health care

Stratégie, zdroje a dôsledky regulácie emócií pri poskytovaní zdravotnej starostlivosti

Duration: 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2025
Evidence number:2/0083/22
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Mgr. Gurňáková Jitka PhD.
Annotation:The project is focused on available resources and consequences of various forms of emotion regulation on well-being and mental health of healthcare professionals. Its scope is a direct continuation of previous activities of the project VEGA 2/0070/18 research team, during which a longitudinal observation of these concepts in the time period following the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia was introduced. It is part of an international collaboration of researchers from more than 30 countries, which can explain how mental health of healthcare professionals is associated with variables such as COVID-19 incidence among population, healthcare system capacity, and implemented political measures. Further qualitative and quantitative comparisons between healthcare workers based on how their well-being and mental health were affected by elevated stress levels, specific for this project, can shed more light on individual and situational factors which mediate this effect.

SOS_CS_ROD - Current Images of Socialism in the Czech Republic and Slovakia - Family Memory

Súčasné obrazy socializmu v Čechách a na Slovensku - rodinná pamäť

Duration: 1. 7. 2023 - 30. 6. 2027
Evidence number:APVV-22-0083
Program: APVV
Project leader: Mgr. Žuk Klara PhD.
Annotation:The project represents the first Czechoslovak qualitative research on family memory. It creates a space for cooperation between Czech and Slovak experts. It focuses on the memories of the oldest generation in the family (people born in 1950 and earlier) and the younger generation (born around 1970 and later) in selected families. Significant is the focus on the content communicated in contemporary families (in the Czech Republic and Slovakia) about the non-democratic period after 1948 and the socio-political change that took place in the last decade of the 20th century. The planned research project is a basic and, to a large extent, a rescue (due to the age of some of the respondents) qualitative research aimed at mapping the phenomenon of remembering in contemporary society. The importance of this qualitative research lies not in the factual plausibility of the information obtained, but in how the past is portrayed in the present.

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Štandardné nestačí: Kto a prečo vyhľadáva alternatívnu medicínu a psychoterapiu?

Duration: 1. 7. 2024 - 31. 12. 2025
Program: PostdokGrant
Project leader: Mgr. Sunyík Viktória PhD.

Structural antecedents of conspiracy beliefs: how precarity, inequality and low institutional trust contribute to the endorsement of conspiracy beliefs

Štrukturálne faktory súvisiace s konšpiračných presvedčení: ako neistota, nerovnosť a nízka inštitucionálna dôvera prispievajú k podpore konšpiračných presvedčení

Duration: 1. 1. 2024 - 31. 12. 2027
Evidence number:VEGA 2/0035/24
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Mgr. Adamus Magdalena PhD.

TransferNem - Transfer of Germans from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War in period propaganda

Transfer Nemcov z Československa po druhej svetovej vojne v dobovej propagande

Duration: 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2025
Evidence number:2/0110/22
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Mgr. Heldáková Lucia PhD.
Annotation:The aim of the project is basic research focused on the propaganda of the transfer of the German minority after the Second World War from the Czechoslovak Republic. Many historical contexts related to transfer have been examined in detail since 1989, but the cultural area (propaganda) of the elaborated phenomenon still remains a white spot of research. As part of the research, we will focus on distorted historical facts and deliberately suppressed problems related to the transfer of the German minority via contemporary propaganda. The originality and benefits of the project lie in four areas: a) filling the white space in previous historical research, (b) research of sources which have been marginalized in the examination of the transfer so far (in particular periodicals and radio recordings); c) the use of a modern historical-methodological approach to the study of history (CDA and propaganda research); d) publication of a summary work, which will map the sketched phenomenon and which is absent in historiography.

Civil Servants Under Changing Regimes in the Territory of Slovakia, 1900 - 1950

Verejní zamestnanci v meniacich sa režimoch na území Slovenska, 1900 - 1950

Duration: 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2025
Evidence number:2/0077/22
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Szeghy-Gayer Veronika PhD.

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Vnímané normy a efekt falošného konsenzu v súvislosti s dôverou konšpiračným teóriám

Duration: 1. 7. 2024 - 31. 12. 2025
Program: PostdokGrant
Project leader: Mgr. Šrol Jakub PhD.
Project web page:https://psychologia.sav.sk/projekt/vnimane-normy-a-efekt-falosneho-konsenzu-v-suvislosti-s-doverou-konspiracnym-teoriam/

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Vyhľadanie, prijímanie, odmietanie psychologickej pomoci - facilitátory, bariéry a postoje

Duration: 1. 1. 2024 - 31. 12. 2027
Evidence number:VEGA 2/0142/24
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Mgr. Loziak Alexander PhD.

The wellbeing of Teachers of Marginalised Roma Communities

Wellbeing učiteľov marginalizovaných rómskych komunít

Duration: 1. 1. 2023 - 31. 1. 2026
Evidence number:2/0067/23
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Mgr. Ďurkovská Mária PhD.
Annotation:The school success of pupils from the marginalized Roma communities (MRC) depends to a large extent on the teacher. Its significant role in the context of education is confirmed by the results of research carried out in this field. Teachers' wellbeing (TWB) is an important factor determining not only the effectiveness of teaching but also pupils' performance. The main aim of the project is to investigate the level of wellbeing of MRC teachers as well as individual aspects of wellbeing (work demands, work resources, self-efficacy, engagement, coping, stress). At the same time, the project aims to compare the wellbeing of MRC teachers with that of teachers in the majority population as well as to examine the variables that characterize the teachers. The identification of these variables could be a starting point for the design of targeted interventions aimed at increasing wellbeing.

Woman and the world of work: Changes in the education and employment of women in Slovakia between 1918 and 1960

Žena a svet práce. Zmeny vo vzdelávaní a zamestnanosti žien na Slovensku v rokoch 1918 - 1960

Duration: 1. 1. 2023 - 31. 12. 2026
Evidence number:2/0089/23
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Mgr. Gallová Miroslava PhD.
Annotation:The aim of the project is to explore how the major historical events of the 1918-1960 period and the changes associated with them have been able to affect the status of women and their employment. In this context, the researchers will focus on mapping the opportunities, limits and changes in the secondary, vocational and higher education for girls. Following this, they will investigate how women have been able to make use of their education in the area of work. They will focus on the analysis of women's employment in different sectors of the economy and examine the employment of women in the selected institutions and enterprises. In doing so, they will focus on examining horizontal and vertical gender segregation. In addition, they will look at the attitude of society towards the issue, the contemporary propaganda, the issue of education and employment of girls and women in the programmes of political parties, and an examination of the fate of individual women and their own experience of the past.

Projects total: 45