Newsletter - Social Science in Eastern Europe 2002-1
UKRAINE
Mironositskaya 1
61002 Kharkov
Tel.: 45-75-55, 45-73-68
E-mail: sociology@univer.kharkov.ua
Internet: http://www.sociology.kharkiv.org/
Management: Navrotskij A.I., Dr. (director) the pro-rector of Kharkov
National University; Bakirov V.S., Prof. (president), rector of Kharkov National
University
Year of foundation: East Ukrainian Fund of Social research was
established in May 1996 upon the initiative of sociologists, political
scientists, economists, lawyers of the Kharkov National University as well as of
representatives of business communities, mass media and the municipal government
of Kharkov.
Financing: The Fund is a nongovernmental, non-profit organisation. Its
activity is financed by denotations and grants.
Main fields:
* scientific analysis, assessment and forecasting of social, economic,
ecological, ethnic and other problems of the Eastern Ukraine and modern
Ukrainian society as a whole;
* sociological and socio-cultural evaluation of administrative decisions, of
political, economic and social programs of regional management as well as of
management at the level of an enterprise;
* political marketing, consulting, organizational and informational support
of election campaigns;
* analysis of mass media's market and advertising service;
* studying social mechanisms of development of education, science and
culture;
* analysis of consumer's attitude towards food and goods market;
* informational support of financial, economic and investment activity;
* expertise and correction of social tension's level at the enterprises with
different forms of property; management consulting.
Research projects:
* Consumption Market in Ukraine: Present Conditions and Tendencies of
Development (1995-1999)
* (The Study of Information Space in Kharkov (monitoring of mass media, 1995
- 1999)
* Adaptation Mechanisms of Elderly (1999, grant of International Renaissance
Foundation);
* Optimisation of the Mechanisms of Labour Market Functioning in Contemporary
Ukraine (1999, grant of International Renaissance Foundation);
* International research project "Socio-Economic and Political
Mechanisms of Population Migration in the Republics of the Former Soviet
Union" (1999-2000, grant of RSS (Soros Foundation)
* City program "Dialogue": Insure rights of children and teenagers
for freedom of smoking" (1999-2000, grant of Kharkov Tobacco Factory)
* International research project "Living Conditions, Life Styles and
Health" (2000-2003, grant of Copernicus
Events: International Workshop "Peculiarities of Electoral
Behaviour of Population in Post-Communist Countries of Eastern Europe"
(1999, in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Berlin Scientific
Center for Social Research (FRG)).
Co-operations: The Fund cooperates with sociologists, political
scientists and other researchers in various regions of Ukraine and maintains a
regional and national network of interviewers.
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