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Current research projects
The most important current research projects carried out by researchers at the Institute of Sociology include:
The international project LYMAS: " Life strategies of Young Labour Migrants in Ageing Societies ", funded by the Volkswagen Foundation within the programme “Challenges and Poten-tials for Europe: The Greying Continent”. The consortium leader is the Deutsches Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (DeZIM) in Berlin; partners: Universität Neuchâtel in Switzerland and MCI Die Unternehmerische Hochschule in Austria. Project duration 36 m (1.01.2023-31.12.2025), Project budget: € 1,198,000 (UWr budget: € 172,400). Project team at the University of Wrocław: Prof. UWr dr hab. Elżbieta Opiłowska (PI), dr Mateusz Karolak, Prof. UWr dr hab. Iwona Taranowicz, and a PhD student recruited on a competitive basis.
From 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2026 the Centre for Regional- and Borderlands Studies at the Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław will carry out the research project B-SHAPES (no. 101095186) within the framework of the HORIZON-CL2-2022-HERITAGE-01 programme. Project budget €3 million (including €177 375 for UWr); funding institution: European Commission - European Research Executive Agency. Project partners: Syddanks University, Sønderborg (DK) (coordinator), Brunel University London (UK), European Academy Bozen (IT), Oulu University (FI), Eötvös Loránd University Budapest (HU), Halmstad University (SE), Technical University of Liberec (CZ), and Université de Strasbourg (FR). Further participants are: National Museum of History (BG), Association of European Border Regions (DE), Foundation European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (PL), Kreatus Consultancy (PL) and Lungomare Art Collective (IT). The Wrocław team: Prof. UWr dr hab. Elżbieta Opiłowska (PI), Dr Łukasz Moll and a PhD student (to be recruited).
International project Horizon Europe INCA INcrease Corporate political responsibility and Accountability (project number 101061653) running from 1.10.2022-31.03.2026 under the HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01 programme, amount of funding: EUR 156 405, funding body: European Commission - European Research Executive Agency, partners: Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita Di Bologna (coordinator), Universitat De Barcelona, Associação Laboratório Colaborativo Para O Trabalho, Emprego E Proteção Social, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Tartu Ulikool, Alexander von Humboldt-Institut Fur Internet und Gesellschaft Ggmbh, Stichting Katholieke Universiteit Brabant, Fondazione Per L'innovazione Urbana, Fundacio Barcelona Institute of Technology dor the Habitat Bit Habitat, Urbasofia Srl, Elhuyar Fundazioa, Scuola Universitaria Professionale Della Svizzera Italiana. At the University of Wrocław, the team leader is dr hab. Adam Mrozowicki, prof. UWr, and the member is Szymon Pilch. It is planned to employ two people as research assistants. www: inca-project.eu (under construction)
- International project PNFN: „ Resilience of cross-border cooperation in Europe - comparative analysis of the German-Polish and German-French borderland ” (nr 2022-05), project leader: dr hab. Elżbieta Opiłowska, prof. UWr. Project partner: University of the Saarland in Saarbrücken, Jun. Prof. Dr. Florian Weber. Budget: 78 600 EUR Duration: 1.07.2022-31.12.2023 Financing: German-Polish Science Foundation
- NCN Preludium Bis "Just leave everything and go to live in Bieszczady mountains"? A life-course approach to new residential mobility to non-metropolitan areas in (post)pandemic Poland Principal investigator: dr hab. prof. UWr Katarzyna Kajdanek. Budget: 531 778 PLN. Duration: 2022-2026 financing: National Science Centre, Poland
NAWA Urgency Grant „SOR-WAR Project. Social Order Resilience During the War in Ukraine. Ukrainian and Polish Experiences.” Project leader: dr hab. Mateusz Błaszczyk prof. UWr. Team members: dr Piotr Pieńkowski, mgr Małgorzata Felińska. Partner: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Budget: 236 286 PLN. Duration: IX 2022-VIII 2023
IDUB (The Initiative of Excellence - Research University) internal grant, project: „From a bridge in a twin town to a border between states. The Polish-German border in the consciousness of the inhabitants of divided cities in the light of memoirs” , 2nd edition of the competition, amount of funding: PLN 39 600, project leader: dr hab. Natalia Niedźwiecka-Iwańczak
- NCN Preludium " IT specialists in outsourcing centers for business services in Poland. Sociological study of experience of work ", principal investigator: mgr Szymon Pilch, project supervisor: dr hab. Adam Mrozowicki, prof. UWr, amount of funding: 151 607 PLN, duration of research: 26.11.2021 - 25. 11. 2024, funding: National Science Centre, No. DEC-2021/41/N/HS6/00557.557.
Project NCN OPUS " COV-WORK: Socio-economic consciousness work experiences and coping strategies of Poles in the context of the post-pandemic crisis ", principal investigator: dr. hab. assoc. prof. Adam Mrozowicki, funding : PLN 1,207,277 (including PLN 793,986 for UWr), consortium with the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) - Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Economic Sociology of the Warsaw School of Economics (project leader at the SGH: dr Jan Czarzasty), implementation period: 11.01.2021-10.01.2025, financing: National Science Centre, Poland, contract UMO-2020/37/B/HS6/00479. Website: www.covwork.uni.wroc.pl
- Project NCN OPUS „ Project NCN OPUS „(De/Re)Constructing borders – narratives and imaginaries on divided towns in Central Europe in comparative perspective” ”, Contract No. UMO-2018/29/B/HS6/00258, Principal Investigator: dr hab. Elżbieta Opiłowska, Co-Investigators: dr hab. Marcin Dębicki, dr Kamilla Dolińska, dr hab. Julita Makaro i dr Natalia Niedźwiecka-Iwańczak, Budget: 697 088 PLN, Duration: 24.01.2019 – 23.01.2022. Project's website: https://granice.uni.wroc.pl/en
- Project " Multidimensional dynamics of bilateral relations - Poland and Germany in the European Union ", Project leader dr hab. Elżbieta Opiłowska, prof. UWr, in cooperation with the Hertie School in Berlin, Prof. Monika Sus, Duration: 01.01.2021 do 31.12.2021, Funding: Polish-German Science Foundation, budget: 28.900 euro.
Research project: "Right-wing populism among young Germans and Poles: Analysis of the biographical motives for supporting right-wing parties and organizations." Grant from the Polish-German Science Foundation. Contract No. 2019-13. Team: dr Mateusz Karolak, dr Justyna Kajta and Prof. Adam Mrozowicki. Partner universities: Freie Universität Berlin, (prof. Katharina Bluhm), Leeds Business School (Prof. Vera Trappmann). Budget: 69 000 Euros.
- Project Evaluation of the European Capital of Culture Wroclaw 2016 , financially supported by the City of Wrocław, the research team: dr Jacek Pluta (the project's leader), dr hab. Mateusz Błaszczyk, dr Ewa Banaszak , prof. dr hab. Katarzyna Kajdanek, dr Justyna Kajta, dr Kamilla Dolińska, dr Natalia Niedźwiedzka, dr Dawid Krysiński. Project's duration: 30.03.2016 – 20.12.2017.
- Project Social Diagnosis of Wroclaw 2017 , financially supported by the City of Wroclaw, the research team: dr Jacek Pluta (the project's leader), dr hab. Mateusz Błaszczyk, dr Iwona Borowik, dr Kamilla Dolińska, prof. dr hab. Katarzyna Kajdanek, prof. dr hab. Stanisław W. Kłopot, dr Grzegorz Kozdraś, dr Dawid Krysiński , dr hab. Julita Makaro. Project's duration: 30.05.2017 – 15.12.2017.
Project “ Poland and Germany in the European Union - new forms and models of bilateral relations in foreign policy and the cross-border cooperation ”, financially supported by the German-Polish Science Foundation in Frankfurt (Oder), dr hab. Elżbieta Opiłowska (Project leader from the University of Wrocław), dr Monika Sus (Project leader from the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin), Funding period: 1 September 2017 - 30 June 2020, funding amount: 90 000 euro, of which 29789 euro for the University of Wrocław
- Project NCN SONATA, Project NCN SONATA „Social structure networks and consumption tastes and practices” (Contract No. UMO-2016/21/D/HS6/02424, Principal Investigator: dr Michał Cebula; Co-Investigator: dr hab. Przemysław Sadura (University of Warsaw), mgr Aleksandra Drabina - Różewicz (University of Wrocław); duration: 26.01.2017-25.01.2021)
- Project FP7-PEOPLE-Initial Training Network-2012 CHANGING EMPLOYMENT (Marie Curie Actions) ("The changing nature of employment in Europe in the context of challenges, threats and opportunities for employees and employers"). Duration: 1 December 2012 till 30 November 2016, budget: 4,5 million EUR. Programme coordinator: Prof. Paul Stewart (University of Strathclyde); project leader at the Institute of Sociology: dr Adam Mrozowicki; More: www.changingemployment.eu/
- Project "The Memory of Vanished Population Groups in Today's East- and Central European Urban Environment. Memory Treatment and Urban Planning in L'viv, Cernivci, Chisinau and Wrocław", project leader at the Institute of Sociology: dr Barbara Pabjan, Duration: 2011-2014, Budget: 120 000 EUR, founded by The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation
- Project: "Leipzig and Wroclaw in the processes of transformation, Europeanisation and globalisation", project leader: Prof. Zbigniew Kurcz, Zentrum für Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen. Universität Leipzig, project duration: 2012-2013, German-Polish Science Foundation.
- WROCŁAW FASHION PROJECT: CODING AND MODELLING DAILY LIFE DRESS
- International project NCN/DFG Beethoven „PREWORK: „Young precarious workers in Poland and Germany: a comparative sociological study on working and living conditions, social consciousness and civic engagement”, contract no. UMO-2014/15/G/HS4/04476, scientific consortium with the Warsaw School of Economics (prof. dr hab. Juliusz Gardawski (leader), dr Jan Czarzasty), German partner: Freie Universität Berlin, period: March 2016-February 2019, members of the IS UWr research team: dr hab. Adam Mrozowicki (head), dr Agata Krasowska, mgr Mateusz Karolak. Student co-researchers: Katarzyna Jarguz, Karolina Szczepaniak. More: www.prework.uni.wroc.pl
- International project PRECARIR: „The rise of the dual labour market: fighting precarious employment in the new member states through industrial relations” (“Rozwój dualnego rynku pracy: przeciwdziałanie prekaryjnemu zatrudnieniu w nowych krajach członkowskich poprzez stosunki przemysłowe”), project VS/2014/0534, period: 1.12.2014 - 30.09.2016, financed by the European Commission’s DG for Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion. The IS UWR team: dr hab. Adam Mrozowicki (head), dr Małgorzata Maciejewska.
- International project NCN/DFG Beethoven "Jews and Germans in Polish collective memory. Two case studies of memory formation after WWII", project number: 2014/15/G/HS6/04836, duration: 20.01.2016-19.01.2017, leader: dr Barbara Pabjan, German patner: Universitaet Hamburg.
- Project NCN ETIUDA, "Return migrants inclusion and employment: the case of return migration from the UK to Poland", project no: UMO-2016/20/T/HS6/00479, mgr Mateusz Karolak,duration: 06.09.2016-30.09.2018.