Public engagement

An article on the book dedicated to Croatian women philosophers –“Croatian Female Philosophers – A Reader“, whose co-author is Ana Maskalan.

Zrinka Ristić Dedić discussed the role and position of women in science, and reflected on gender stereotypes in the STEM.

Report on the final conference of the CSF project TeachWell - The role of personality, motivation and socio-emotional competences in early-career teachers’ occupational well-being (principal investigator Iris Marušić).

Nikola Petrović commented on Croatian citizens' discontent with the increase in food prices, and their willingness to protest.

Boris Jokić commented on the mental health and safety measures in schools.

Filip Fila analyses the causes of youth emigration from Croatia, based on data obtained in the Youth Study Southeastern Europe 2024 conducted by the Institute and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

Branko Ančić reflected on the phenomenon of disinformation and fake news, their influence on social processes, and the ways in which we as a society can resist their impact.

Zrinka Ristić Dedić commented on the Homeschooling Croatia Initiative.

Mirjana Adamović commented on the results of the FES Youth Study Croatia 2024.

Branko Ančić discussed the challenges of adaptation to climate changes in Croatian cities.

Boris Jokić addressed the mental health of youth in respect to the World Children's Day.

Marija Brajdić Vuković and Marita Grubišić-Čabo presented the first findings of the CSF project RESETH at the Croatian Radio Third Programme.

The central informative show of Nova TV – Dnevnik reported on the presentation of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Youth Study Croatia 2024.

Boris Jokić was a guest at the Croatian Radio First Programme where he discussed the 6th Days of Educational Sciences.

Nikola Petrović commented on Ursula von der Leyen's announcement of the appointment of EU's first defense commissioner.

Iva Odak and Zrinka Ristić Dedić were guests in the HRT4 show “Education and Science“. They discussed the current issues in education, and the forthcoming Days of Educational Sciences conference.

Boris Jokić was a guest in the central informative show of the Nova TV, where he commented on the results of this year's State Matura.

Anđelina Svirčić Gotovac was a guest at the HR3 programme, where she participated in a discussion on the quality of life in large housing estates in Croatia.

Boris Jokić was a guest at N1 Television show 'Novi dan', where he discussed the 'School and Community' project.

Anja Gvozdanović commented on the low interest for EU elections among youth.

Teo Matković and Josip Šabić commented for Jutarnji list on the low share of pupils enrolled in grammar school programmes in Croatia, in comparison to EU.

Mirjana Adamović commented for the reci.hr portal on the rise in the number of femicide cases in Croatia.

Nikola Petrović commented on protests in the Croatian society for t-portal.

Marija Brajdić Vuković talked about precarity of professional socialization of Croatian women scientists.

Boris Jokić commented on the post-electional situation in Croatia for the N1 Television TV show Novi dan.

Croatian Radio Television show Studio 4 brings a report on the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb.

Anđelina Svirčić Gotovac, PhD commented for Al jazeera Balkans on high prices of housing units, and suggested a model of public-private partership of the state and investors as one of the possible solutions.

Večernji list reports on results of the STEMFemme project.

Zrinka Ristić Dedić commented on organized preparations for the State Matura in the Croatian Radio Television show Studio 4.

Anja Gvozdanović and Marko Kovačić (Edward Bernays University of Applied Sciences) commented for N1 Croatia on the low participation of youth in the political life of Croatia.

Nikola Petrović, PhD analyses for Glas Slavonije the military-political situation in Europe two years after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Lana Peternel, PhD discussed the topic of uninhabited places in Croatia for the radio show 'Poveznice' on the Croatian Radio First Programme.

Prof. Ankica Marinović, PhD commented for the Telegram magazine on the relationship between the Catholic Church in Croatia and the Pope.

Nikola Baketa discussed for N1 why the voting age threshold should be lowered.

Iva Odak, PhD and Teo Matković, PhD were guests in the informative HRT4 show Studio 4.

They discussed the topic of higher education drop out, based on data collected within the TEMCO project - Thematic Network Lifelong Education Accessible to All (TEMCO).

Jana Šimon commented on the findings of the Institute’s research on attitudes regarding the ban on the use of mobile phones in Croatian elementary schools.

Teo Matković commented on the Croatian immigration policy and the increase in the number of issued working permits for foreign workers.

Anamaria Klasić and Boris Jokić participated in the round table discussion dedicated to the problems that assistants in the scientific research system are facing.

Nikolina Hazdovac Bajić commented on different attitudes of Croatian citizens regarding religious beliefs.

Boris Jokić talked about the influence of modern technologies on youth at the educational conference of the srednja.hr portal ‘Obrazovanje x AI’.

Dunja Potočnik discussed the problem of gambling addiction among youth in Croatia.

Katarina Jaklin commented on the findings of the ISRZ Survey on working conditions in Croatia's non-profit sector.

Prof. Ankica Marinović discussed for Večernji list the mobilization power of religion and its role in the shaping of populist political discourses.

Marija Brajdić Vuković participated in the Kulturpunkt podcast.
The topic that she talked about were the visions of the future in the context of contemporary social crises, with an emphasis on the ways in which they are approached and interpreted by the academic community and artistic practices.

Index reported on private tutoring and preparatory courses for enrolment into higher education programmes, which is a topic that was investigated in several occasions by Boris Jokić, PhD and Zrinka Ristić Dedić, PhD.

Večernji list brought a story, along with plenty of other Croatian media outlets, on the results of the study conducted by Boris Jokić, Zrinka Ristić Dedić and Jana Šimon, in which they explored attitudes of teachers and pupils towards the ban on the use of mobile phones in Croatia.

Zrinka Ristić Dedić commented for N1 Television the introduction of the whole day school model in primary schools in Croatia.

Nikola Petrović commented for Večernji list on Putin’s rhetoric.

Anđelina Svirčić Gotovac commented for N1 on the Government's proposal of the national plan for housing policy until 2030.

Anđelina Svirčić Gotovac and Ratko Đokić investigated the quality of life in socialist and post-socialist estates, whereby covering also the so-called POS estates, i.e. the estates subsidised by the state.

Nikola Baketa commented for RTL Direkt on the research pointing to youth's distrust in state institutions and their belief that professional advancement cannot be achieved without membership in a political party.

Teo Matković commented on the introduction of the Government's ban on the working of retail stores on Sundays.

The zgradonačelnik.hr portal brings results of a study on the quality of life and housing in socialist and post-socialist estates in Croatia and Slovenia. The authors of the study are Anđelina Svirčić Gotovac and Ratko Đokić.

Nikola Baketa and Kosta Bovan analysed the rhetorics that is used by opponents of civic education, as well as the underlying ideology.

Večernji list brought an article about the book “Nestala naselja u Republici Hrvatskoj”, whose authors are Vlatka Dugački, Lana Peternel and Filip Škiljan.

The authors are exploring the topic of depopulation of smaller settlements in the Republic of Croatia. They approached the topic interdisciplinary in an attempt to investigate the causes and the context of leaving once populated places.

Nikola Petrović commented for “Across the Balkans” (TRT World) on 10 years of Croatian membership in the European Union.

Večernji list reports on the research on risky behaviours of youth in Croatia, conducted by Mirjana Adamović, Anja Gvozdanović and Dunja Potočnik.

Index brings an analysis of prejudice among youth in Croatia based on findings of the research conducted by Nikola Baketa, Kosta Bovan and Jelena Matić Bojić in 2021. The study revealed that the majority of youth is today much more tolerant than five years ago.

Novi list reports on the round table discussion on equity and inclusiveness of higher education in Croatia, at which Iva Odak, Teo Matković and Saša Puzić presented results of the research on reasons behind students' dropping out from higer education.

Jutarnji List brings a report on results encompassed in the study on the quality of housing and life satisfaction in selected housing estates in Slovenia and Croatia. The authors of the study are Anđelina Svirčić Gotovac and Ratko Đokić.

Nikola Petrović commented on the political situation in Slovakia.

Jutarnji list brings results of a research on family relations from the perspective of youth, which was prepared by Boris Jokić and Zrinka Ristić Dedić.

Boris Jokić commented on the influence of the earthquake and the pandemic on the mental state of youth.

Večernji list brings a story about the research on factors contributing to youth higher education choices in Croatia, conducted by Ivana Pikić Jugović and Branislava Baranović. The research titled “How do Students Choose Their Study Courses? Qualitative Research on Motivational, Gender and Contextual Factors” was published in “Sociology and Space”, 60 (3).

Anja Gvozdanović was guest in the podcast Život uživo #2 of the Human Rights House Zagreb. She talked about her youth research with a special focus on their attitude towards the past, which was conducted with the aim of gaining insight into the phase in which facing the past is at the level of the whole society.

Boris Jokić was a guest of the RTL Direkt tv show in which he commented on youth and their increasingly frequent and prolonged use of mobile devices, while also referring to other topics related to youth well-being.

Večernji list reported on the final conference of the Croatian Science Foundation project “Regulation of Prostitution in Croatia”. The research was conducted by the project principal investigator Ivana Radačić (Institute Ivo Pilar) and the members of the research team Marija Antić, Mirjana Adamović, Nikola Baketa, Rašeljka Krnić, Josip Šipić and Tihana Štojs Brajković.

Zrinka Ristić Dedić commented for the srednja.hr portal on the beginning of the implementation of national exams for all eight-grade pupils in Croatia.

Nikola Baketa was a guest in the Croatian Radiotelevision show 'Indeks' in which he commented on political literacy of Croatian pupils and the 'School and Community' programme.

Boris Jokić was a guest in the central informative show of Nova TV - Dnevnik, in which he commented on the findings of the research conducted within the EWAchange project. More than 40,000 Croatian pupils and 10,000 educational professionals from 167 schools participated in the research.

Filip Fila and Josip Bilić were guests in the OTV show ‘Svakodnevica’. They presented the project ‘Integration and disintegration of the European Union: Dynamics of Europeanism and Euroscepticism (IDEU)’, and the topics of their doctoral theses.

Nikola Baketa participated in a public debate on the voices of pupils for a better quality of civic education and their dialogue with decision makers, organized by the GOOD Initiative. He presented results of a research on teachers' experiences with implementing civic education in Croatian schools as a cross-curricular topic.

Nikola Petrović commented for the Turkish public broadcast service TRT World on the socio-political situation in the Balkans, with a particular analysis of possible future scenarios with regard to the moving of the Western Balkans closer to the European Union.
The show can be viewed at the link.

Adrijana Šuljok gave an interview for the 'Nismo same' portal on the effects of the pandemic on the deepening of social inequalities, especially with regard to women. She commented on the polarisation and division among social groups around the question of trust in science.

Anja Gvozdanović gave an interview for the 'Novosti' portal in which she addressed the topic of Croatian youth and their war traumas.

Teo Matković gave an interview in which he discussed results of the research report on secondary school education in Croatia, which was delivered upon request of the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education. The report was written in collaboration with Josip Šabić.

Mako Kovačić commented for Dnevnik.hr on the possibility of lowering the age threshold for voting in Croatian elections to the age of 16. He pointed to both the positive and negative sides of introducing such a practice.

Anđelina Svirčić Gotovac participated in a round table discussion on spatial and urban planning organized by the Urban Planning Committee of the Croatian Chamber of Architects and the Split Society of Architects. The news was reported by Dalmatinski portal.

Iva Odak gave an interview for Nacional (printed edition nr. 1278 of 18 October 2022) in which she pointed to the importance of the school, family and social setting for the well-being and identity formation of youth. She also emphasized the importance of raising the status of the teaching profession in Croatia.

Jelena Zlatar Gamberožić was a guest in the radio show “Okrugli stol ponedjeljkom“ on the Croatian Radio Third Programme. The topic of the show was touristification of cities. Besides Jelena, architect Maroje Mrduljaš also participated in the discussion. The editor of the show is Filip Majetić.

Nikola Petrović commented for the TRT World television on the challenges of the process of Western Balkans' accession to the EU.

Teo Matković commented on results of the Croatian Population Census 2021 for Jutarnji list.

Jutarnji list brings a story on the published Report Summary consisting of the most relevant data from the research report “A Lost Decade”, previously published by the Society For Sustainable Development Design (DOOR). The authors of the Summary are Tomislav Cik and Sandra Vlašić, with a contribution by Željka Jurlina.

Nikola Petrović, Filip Fila and Marko Mrakovčić (Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka) are the authors of the scientific paper “Yugoslavs and Europeans Compared: Supranational Polities and Supranational Identification”, published in “Politička misao”, Vol. 59, No. 2. Multiple media services in Croatia and the neighbouring countries brought a review of this study, in which the authors compared the social and political contexts of European and Yugoslavian self-identification, along with the share of citizens who identify, or identified, themselves with the mentioned supranational identities.

Selection from the Croatian media:

Istraživanja: U EU mali broj nacionalnih Europljana, kao u SFRJ Jugoslavena - N1 (n1info.com)

https://www.rtl.hr/.../kao-sto-se-rijetko-tko-u-jugi...

https://www.index.hr/.../istrazivanje-eu-ima.../2394265.aspx

Selection from the media in BiH and Serbia:

https://www.danas.rs/.../koliko-se-ljudi-u-eu-i-u-kojm.../

https://www.dnevnik.ba/.../istrazivanje-eu-ima-mali-broj...

Boris Jokić commented for the central informative show of Nova TV (Dnevnik Nove TV) on the introduction of the new curriculum “School and Community“ in secondary schools in the City of Zagreb, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County and Krapina-Zagorje County.

Branko Ančić commented for the RTL Direkt TV show on the expected rise of the human population to 8 billion. He also commented on the problem of overexploitation of natural resources and overconsumption of meat in comparison to previous generations.

Nikola Petrović gave an interview for Glas Slavonije in which he talked about the influence of the war in Ukraine on the strengthening or weakening of pro-European or eurosceptic attitudes among European citizens and political actors.

Nikola Petrović, Josip Bilić and Filip Fila are the authors of the paper „Kulturno-civilizacijske i geopolitičke orijentacije hrvatskih stranaka i građana“ [Cultural-civilisational and geopolitical orientations of Croatian parties and citizens]. The article was presented in more detail in Index, Glas Slavonije, Telegram and on PLUSportal.hr.

Ankica Marinović analyzed the Opus Dei organization for Jutarnji list.

Boris Jokić was a guest in the RTL Direkt show, where he recommended various measures for the improvement of the system of evaluation and grading, elimination of the grade point average, and improvement of the quality of external evaluation exams.

Boris Jokić gave an interview for the “Novosti“ portal on recently published results of the research on private tutoring and on organized preparations for the State Matura and admission exams. The research was carried out in collaboration with Zrinka Ristić Dedić.

Adrijana Šuljok commented for Jutarnji list on the findings of the research pointing to a decline of trust in science among Croatian citizens.

Boris Jokić was a guest in the Novi dan show, in which he commented on the newest results of national exams, according to which Croatia has an unrealistically high number of straight A pupils.

Nikola Baketa and Kosta Bovan (Faculty of Political Science) are the authors of the paper titled “Stability and/or change? Institutional trust in Croatia in 1999–2020“. The Paper was published in the journal “Croatian Sociological Review“ in March 2022 and attracted great interest of the public and media.

Jutarnji list brings a comment on the professional paper titled “Cultural-civilisational and geopolitical orientations of Croatian parties and citizens“ written by Nikola Petrović, Josip Bilić and Filip Fila. The paper is published in the journal “Političke analize“.

Katarina Jaklin commented on working on Sunday in a report broadcasted on the Croatian Radiotelevision.

Marko Kovačić, Nikola Baketa and Boris Jokić participated at the conference on civic education, organized by the GOOD initiative. Marko Kovačić and Nikola Baketa presented the findings of Institute's research on the implementation of civic education as an intercurricular subject in schools and provided insights into youth political literacy, while Boris Jokić participated in a discussion within which he discussed the experience of the implementation of civic education in Croatian schools and reflected on the new curriculum “School and Community“.

Teo Matković commented for Večernji list on youth unemployment in Croatia and cost-effectiveness of government's measures for stimulating employers to conclude indefinite-term employment contracts with youth.

Teo Matković commented for Zimo.hr the influence of new technologies on the labour market.

Katarina Jaklin and Jelena Ostojić gave an interview for Novosti discussing the research findings on the experience of seasonal work, gathered within the „Work Fit for People“ project.

Filip Fila commented for the Magazin section of Jutarnji list the developments within the Visegrád Group. In the article he reflected on the question of how these developments impact the meaning of the Visegrád Group as a symbol of 'resistance to Brussels' and the newly-created gap between Hungarian and Polish authorities.

Nacional and other media bring a story about the results of the research conducted by Kosta Bovan, PhD and Nikola Baketa, PhD on institutional trust of Croatian citizens in the period between 1999 and 2020.

Nikola Petrović participated in a discussion on the integration and disintegration processes in the EU.

Jutarnji list brings the third article with the results of the survey into Croatian citizens' attitudes titled “Lost Decade: Attitudes and opinions on environmental protection, climate changes and energy transition in the Republic of Croatia“. The authors of the article are Tomislav Cik (ISRZ and DOOR), Željka Jurlin (Eko-Zadar) and Sandra Vlašić (Terra Hub Croatia).

Nikola Petrović held a lecture addressing the possible influence of the war in Ukraine for the positioning of Croatian economy.

Anđelina Svirčić Gotovac participated in the presentation of the Programme of comprehensive renewal of the historical centre of Zagreb in the City Assembly.

Katarina Jaklin commented for the RTL TV show Potraga on the results of the research on the experience of fixed-term employment in Croatia. The research was carried out within the project “Work Fit for People“.

Boris Jokić presented the results of the research on the influence of the pandemic on school children in Osijek, within the 21st Brain Awareness Week.

Adrijana Šuljok and Željko Pavić (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Osijek) conducted a research confirming that persons with higher scientific literacy are less prone to conspiracy theories.

Branko Ančić participated in the presentation of the research within the CSF project 'Sustainable fishery' - SOCFISH.

Dunja Potočnik talked about the challenges that young people face.

Teo Matković commented on the current changes on the labour market, reflecting on the question of working from home.

Nacional published again an interview with Iva Odak, which was originally held in April 2020, and in which she emphasised the importance of solidarity among people, as the way of overcoming the crisis.

Adrijana Šuljok commented on the reasons behind the low numbers of vaccinated people in Croatia, compared to other EU countries, in an article by Tanja Rudež in Jutarnji list.