Investigated projects

Investigated projects

On this webpage, you can find all the projects that our researchers are currently working on.

Here is the list of the grant providers we cooperate with:

  • ERC MICROCODE
  • HORIZON EUROPE
  • NATIONAL RECOVERY PLAN
  • JEAN MONNET
  • ERASMUS+
  • DAAD (GERMAN ACADEMIC EXCHANGE SERVICE)
  • GRANT AGENCY OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
  • TECHNOLOGICAL AGENCY OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
  • MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
  • MŠMT - MOBILITY
  • PRIMUS
  • UNCE (UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTRE)
  • CHARLES UNIVERSITY GRANT AGENCY
  • CENTRAL
  • US FOUNDATIONS
  • STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP
  • TANDEM
  • GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES
  • 4EU+ ALLIANCE
  • PERSONAL GRANTS

ERC Microcode

Project Number Project Name Main Investigator Duration
101160767

Microfoundations of Collective Defence (MICROCODE)

doc. PhDr. Michal Smetana, Ph.D.

 2025-2029

 

You can also find out more about the project on its website.

Horizon Europe

Project Number Project Name Main Investigator Duration
  Sociology of Authoritarian Law: Insights from Central Asia (SOCIAL) doc. PhDr. Slavomír Horák, Ph.D. 2026-2029
  The Political Economy of Legal and Governance Reform in Non-Western Societies: Insights from Central Asia (POLCA) doc. PhDr. Slavomír Horák, Ph.D. 2026-2029
101178061

Strengthening Democratic Resilience Through Digital Twins (TWIN4DEM)

You can also find out more about the project on its website.

doc. PhDr. Michal Smetana, Ph.D.

 2025-2027
101085855 Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia - MOCCA PhDr. Slavomír Horák, Ph.D. 2022-2026

EU OPERATIONAL PROGRAMMES

Project Number Project Name Main Investigator Duration
  National Recovery Plan - Syri Exceles Charles University 2022-2025
  National Recovery Plan - Core Charles University 2023-2026
  National Recovery Plan - Green Deal Charles University 2024-2025

 

ERASMUS+

Project Number Project Name Main Investigator Duration
KA203 Mapping & Organizing Research on Dictatorships – Open Access Repository PhDr. Slavomír Horák, Ph.D. 2021-2024
2019-1509/001-001-EMJMD European Politics and Society: Václav Havel Joint Master Programme Mgr. Eliška Tomalová, Ph.D. a Mgr. Martin Mejstřík 2019-2025

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)

Project Number Project Name Main Investigator Duration
  Deutschsprachige Studiengänge in Mittel- und Osteuropa PhDr. Zuzana Lizcová, Ph.D. 2019-2027

GRANT AGENCY OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Project Number

Project Name

Main Investigator

Duration
25-15472S Negotiating ‘Serbhood’: Layers of memories among the Serbs in the post-Yugoslav and postwar space PhDr. Ondřej Žíla, Ph.D. 2025-2027
24-11424L Linking Arms: Central Europe´s Weapons Sector, 1954-1994 doc. PhDr. Tomáš Nigrin, Ph.D. 2024-2026
23-04833S Specialisation in EU small states’ foreign and security policy prof. Mgr. Tomáš Weiss, M.A., Ph.D. 2023-2025
22-19382S Domestic Violence in Postwar Reconstruction. The Czech Lands, 1945-53 doc. PhDr. Ota Konrád, Ph.D. 2022-2025

TECHNOLOGICAL AGENCY OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Project Number Project Name Main Investigator Duration
TQ01000204 Network of experts to analyse strategic global trends PhDr. Jan Hornát, PhD. 2023–2025
TQ01000354 Foreign information influence, countermeasures against it and its communication: findings and analysis of Czech public opinion

Mgr. Vojtěch Bahenský, Ph.D.

 2023–2026

 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

Project Number Project Name Main Investigator Duration
112173/2025 Activity of the Czech Section of the Czech-German Historians' Commission (2025) doc. PhDr. Tomáš Nigrin, Ph.D. 2025

MŠMT - MOBILITY

Project Number Project Name Main Investigator Duration
8J25FR004

Exploring Personal History: War, Violence, Occupation, and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in 20th and 21st Century Europe

 Prof. PhDr. Ota Konrád, Ph.D. 2025-2026

PRIMUS

Project Number Project Name Main Investigator Duration
Primus/22/HUM/011 The Past is Present: The Use and Misuse of Traumatic Historical Events in Foreign Policy Dr. Irena Kalhousová 2022-2026
Primus/22/HUM/005 Experimental Lab for International Security Studies (ELISS) doc. PhDr. Michal Smetana, Ph.D. 2022-2025

UNCE (University Research Center)

Project Number Project Name Main Investigator Duration
UNCE24/SSH/018 Peace Research Center Prague II

prof. Mgr. Tomáš Weiss, M.A., Ph.D.

 2024-2029

Charles University GRANT AGENCY

Project Number Project Name Main Investigator Duration
252757 Gender Perceptions of Nuclear Weapons Issues in India Sharma Shreya 2024-2026
252749 The Narrative of the ‘Drone Revolution’: A Comparison of Public, Expert and Media Perspectives on the Use of Drones in Modern Warfare Zakir Rzazade  2024-2026
252743 The Making of a Cultural Leader in Buchenwald Concentration Camp Markéta Kroupová 2024-2026
252708 The Role of the Orthodox Churches in the Formation of an Independent Montenegro in 2000-2006 Olga Švepešová Blaťáková 2024-2025
290125 Praxe psychologie na socialistické periferii: psychologie práce v Československu a na Kubě v době studené války Alicia García Cabaleiro 2025-2027
394325 Uprchlíci z bulharské okupační zóny v Soluni za druhé světové války Alexios Ntetorakis Exarchou 2025-2027
418525 Russian Youth in Georgia: Life Strategies and Cultural Changes Marina Perglová 2025-2026
498525 The legacy of the Kosovo war in collective memory: Serbian victimhood discourses in digital spaces Hans Zdravko Harmens 2025-2027
218323

The Concept of Territorial Autonomy in the Context of the Versailles Peace Negotiations

 Veronika Homolová 2023-2025
274723 The Impact of Science and Technology Cooperation on Russo-Chinese Strategic Alignment post-1991 Roman Kolodii 2023-2025
176123

Anschluss 1938. The railway upheaval and its impact on social and economic structures in Austria as a case study on the history of transport in the context of Nazi expansion in Central Europe.

 Ondřej Kukan 2023-2025
99323 Comparison of commemorations of historical anniversaries in Czechoslovakia in the 1980s and 1990s Ondřej Matějka 2023-2025

CENTRAL

Project Number Project Name Main Investigator Duration
  Mobility of People, Goods, and Ideas Valeriya Korablyova, Ph.D. 2024-2025
  Towards a Central European doctoral school in modern history

prof. PhDr. Ota Konrád, Ph.D.

 2022-2024
  Memory policy in theoretical and practical dimensions prof. PhDr. Kateřina Králová, Ph.D., M.A. 2022-2024

US FOUNDATIONS

Project Number Project Name Main Investigator Duration
 

Claims Conference University Partnership Program in Holocaust Studies

 prof. PhDr. Kateřina Králová, Ph.D., M.A. 2022-2025

TANDEM

Project Number Project Name Main Investigator Duration
TANDEM/2024 A Subaltern That Sings: From Sound Resistance to Musical Diplomacy in Wartime Ukraine Valeriya Korablyova, Ph.D. 2024-2025

German Marshall Fund of the United States

Project Number Project Name Main Investigator Duration
ReThink.CEE Fellowship Sino-European Relations: What Agency for Central Europe? Zuzana Krulichová 2024-2025

Paedagogium grant

Project Number Project Name Main Investigator Duration
  Certificate in Digital Humanities Jiří Kocián    2025

 

4EU+ ALLIANCE

Project Number Project Name Main Investigator Duration
MS/25/F0/0/028 Decolonial Approaches and Fieldwork: Theory and Practice Kateřina Fuksová    2025

Personal grants

Project Number Project Name Main Investigator Duration
  Neuron Nataliia Ivchyk 2022
  COST Kateřina Králová  
  Humboldt fellowship Kateřina Králová  
  BTHA Anežka Brožová  
  BTHA Kateřina Králová  
  EUNDPC Michal Smetana