INVITATIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROJECTS:

1. PUBLIC GOVERNANCE AND SOCIAL COHESION

Contemporary local communities are more and more often oriented towards the implementation of the principle of partnership between public authorities and social entities, representing the interests of citizens. These activities have their specific manifestations in the sphere of governance. Emphasis is placed on shaping the interaction between participants of different status representing different spheres (economy and labor market, culture, social policy, social support, education, renewal, housing, health care and others), which allow communication and participation in decision-making processes. One of the important consequences of these is expected: the increase the social cohesion of local communities and the well-being of their inhabitants. In this context, local communities can be seen as a challenge to reformulate their functioning in order to engage in co-decision-making the partners from all sectors. The aim of the project to which we would like to invite you is to diagnose the conditions (causes, consequences, factors, barriers) of developing social cohesion of local communities with regard to the principles of inclusion in decision-making processes and collective actions on their behalf.

2. LIVING BRIDGES IN A DIVIDED SOCIETY

In today’s society, we observe numerous, sometimes deep, intergroup divisions. In this situation, some individuals undertake activities for contact, reconciliation, dialogue, understanding, intergroup cooperation. They play the role of „living bridges” between divided parties. We invite you to participate in an international, interdisciplinary research project. Its purpose is to describe, compare and interpret the activities of people who play the role of living bridges in various cultural, social and political contexts.

3. MEDIA SPACE AS AN AREA OF SHAPING SOCIAL COMPETENCES

The widespread presence of all kinds of media has led to the social life of a large part of contemporary individuals being parallel in two worlds – real and virtual. Undertaken decisions and processes taking place in one of these worlds have a direct impact on the course of events in the other. These realities can no longer be separated because they interpenetrate each other and establish an augmented reality that has completely new properties and is governed by new values Augmented reality requires its participants (users) to have new competences and to follow the rules existing in it. We invite you to participate in the project, which aims to establish the relationship between digital and social competences and ways of shaping them in this new reality.