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…
An Expert Network for Global Strategic Trends Analysis
STRAT:FORS will link social scientific expertise with application potential of leading academic institutions in Czechia for the purpose of strategic analysis of external trends, risks and opportunities. The objective will…
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…
Survey of Short-Term and Long-Term Inflation Expectations of Czech Households
The aim of the project is to use a survey of Czech households to obtain data and then to model households’ inflation expectations adjusted for idiosyncratic and systematic deviations. Current…
Automated system for critical infrastructure protection using cyber-physical technologies
The project focuses on innovative methods for improvement of critical infrastructure (CI) security using digital models, IoT sensors, automated robots and data fusion and decision support systems. The structure of…
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…