Biodiversity protection through offset mechanisms
The project focuses on designing public policy measures to protect biodiversity using offset mechanisms. These mechanisms, based on a market-oriented approach, allow society to prevent the decline of current biodiversity…
Beneficent Multi-Agent AI Avatar in a Small Democratic Society (CZDEMOS4AI)
Bringing together legal, ethical, educational, media, security and psychological studies, the interdisciplinary project CZDEMOS4AI aims to explore the societal implications of the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the context…
The Poverty Line: Regional Dimensions of the Absolute Poverty Definition
The project is focused on the research of constitutional conventions in Central Europe (the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary). The research integrates the approaches of political science and constitutional…
Cognitive biases and fallacies in information handling and strategies to prevent them, the field of education
The aim of the project is to implement organizational improvements and learning processes that will reduce the use of unverified, misleading or false information and practices among employees of the…
Foreign information influence, countermeasures against it and communication of its existence: Identification and analysis of Czech public opinion
The proposed project aims to map the public’s attitudes towards foreign information influence, including its perceived (il)legitimacy, the legitimacy of possible countermeasures against such influence, and the impact of communication…
Newsroom AI: public service in the era of automated journalism
The aim of the interdisciplinary Newsroom AI project, linking journalism and computer science, is to explore the social impacts of implementing artificial intelligence (AI) elements for generation and distribution of…
Authorship Verifier
So-called contract cheating, where a student submits an assignment or a thesis elaborated by someone else, is one of the most pressing ethical problems of contemporary higher education. Contract cheating…
STRAT-SEC: System for Strategic Security Research Management
The project is aimed at creating and implementing a system for providing strategic information about the existing potential of security research in the Czech Republic and emerging opportunities in relation to new…
Center for Socio-Economic Research on Environmental Policy Impact Assessment (SEEPIA)
The project aims to establish an interdisciplinary research center, providing long-term expert capacity for socioeconomic environmental research. The center will develop methods for policy impact evaluation, foresight, and behavioral research…