Research Grants

Coordinated Grants

2025-2027: Assn.Dyn: Eastern-European associations facing contemporary challenges. A dynamic inspection of convergence and similarities, with a focus on Romania, UEFISCDI, grant PN-IV-P1-PCE-2023-0477

2024: Well-being in a Sustainable Economy Revisited (WISER), UEFISCDI grant PN-IV-P8-8.1-PRE-HE-ORG-2023-0085

2019-2021: Romanian Academy Grant Projecting social change and representation on redistribution. The effect of migration, working from home, and digitalization (RedMig)

2017-2019: RemOsm: Remitted Osmosis. Changing social values at origin due to emigration. UEFISCDI grant PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0245.

2011-2016: MigVaSo: Social change under the impact of international migration: value patterns, civic and political participation, life satisfaction. UEFISCDI grant PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0210

2007-2010: Social change across European societies, grant ID-56/2007 of the National Council for Scientific Research (CNCSIS)

2006-2007: Values and social development – Romania in European context, grant AT-102/2006 of the National Council for Scientific Research

2005-2006. World Values Survey. Principal investigator for Romania. (partnership with the Soros Foundation)

2005: Human capital and social development, grant from the National Council for University Scientific Research (86/2005)

2003: Social capital and community development, grant from the National Council for University Scientific Research

1997: Social Exchange and Social Change: the Case of Gifts, own empirical research, Foundation for Open Society research grant

1996: The Values and the Life-Styles of the Students in Bucharest, own empirical research realized in Bucharest, December 1996 (partially supported by the Social Observatory)

Membership in teams of research grants

2025-2029: vice-chair al Cost Action VISTA – Values in Turbulent Times, coordinated by Veronica Rinaldo, Universita Santa Cuore, Milano.

2025-2026: ASCRM - Promovarea coeziunii sociale în România și Moldova: revelarea tendințelor și cartografierea politicilor în contextul noului cadru de coeziune europeană [Promoting social cohesion in Romanian and Moldova], coordinated by Horațiu Rusu (Lucian Blaga University Sibiu) & Tatiana Spătaru (Moldova State University, Chișinău), grant UEFISCDI PN-IV-PCB-ROMD-2024-0171

2025-2026: AI-TRS-STD: Utilizarea AI pentru evaluarea obiceiurilor de somn și identificarea riscului de tulburări de respirație în timpul somnului la studenți, Nicolae Titulescu University grant PCI-191, coordinated by Mihaela Oros

2024-2026: MigraEdu: Understanding migratory realities: teaching with research on migration in diverse societies, coordinated by Monika Nowicka (Collegium Civitas, Warsaw – lead partner), and Alexandra Deliu (Research Institute for Quality of Life - partner), financed by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA)

2023-2026: WISER: Well-being in a Sustainable Economy Revisited, HORIZON-CL2-2022-TRANSFORMATIONS-01 GA 101094546, coordinated by Martijn Burger (Erasmus University of Rotterdam)

2023-2024: UNRF: Undisabling the refugee flow. Increasing the capacity of Polish and Romanian stakeholders to provide support to Ukrainian refugees with disabilities in the metropolitan areas of Warsaw and Bucharest (UNRF), coordinated by Monika Nowicka (Collegium Civitas, Warsaw), financed by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) from the Urgency Grants Programme under the agreement BPN/GIN/2022/1/00102/U/00001.

2016-2018: MIGLIFE: Migrants' life courses: dealing with uncertain, highly destandardized biographies in Romania, ERC-Like grant PN-III-P4-ID-ERC- 2016-0005, coordinated by Ionela Vlase (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu).

2011-2016: Change and Stability in Romanian Electoral Behaviour: 2009-2014 (coordinator: Mircea Comşa, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj), grant PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0669 of the National Council for Scientific Research (CNCS)

2009-2011: The study of the presidential elections 2009 (coordinator: Mircea Comşa, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj), grant ID-2174/2009 of the National Council for Scientific Research (CNCSIS)

2007: Social Capital and the Welfare State, grant FP6, 026142 RITA, ZA-EUROLAB 01-07-MV, coordinator Mălina Voicu (ICCV), January-February 2007

2006: Poverty, Inequality and Gender Values, grant IRISS – C/I Contact 026040 RITA, 16-13-mv, coordinator Mălina Voicu (ICCV), October-November 2006

2005–2007: The quality of life model from the durable development perspective, coordinator: Ioan Mărginean (ICCV), grant of the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research through the CERES „Excellence Research” program

2006 – 2007: EU, European integration and the Church, PHARE – Fondul Europa grant, coordinator: Horaţiu Rusu, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.

2003 – 2004: Precarious Housing in the Urban Area (coordinator Adrian Dan), contracted by RIQL for CASPIS (Anti-Poverty Commission) and granted by the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research through the AMTRANS program.

2003: Migration and migrants’ values (coordinator: Mălina Voicu), grant from the National Council for University Scientific Research

1999 -2000: Social Policy Dictionary (coordinator: Luana Pop, ICCV), financed by SOCO, Vienna

1999-2000: Dictionary of Poverty, grant by the National Council for University Scientific Research, coordinator: prof. Cătălin Zamfir, ICCV

1999-2000: National Value Profiles in Comparative Perspective, grant by the National Council for University Scientific Research and additional funding by EVS Foundation, coordinator: Lucian Pop, ICCV

1997-1999: Social Perceptions of Social Policy, grant by the National Council for University Scientific Research, coordinator: Marian Preda, ICCV

1999: Poverty in Romania, grant by the National Council for University Scientific Research, coordinator: prof. Cătălin Zamfir, ICCV

1998: Social Policy in Romania: 1990-1998, grant by the National Council for University Scientific Research, coordinator: prof. Cătălin Zamfir, ICCV

1997: Traditionalism and Modernity, grant by the National Council for University Scientific Research, coordinator: prof. Dumitru Sandu, University of Bucharest

1994-1997: community studies in rural localities (Crăsani-Ialomiţa, Voineşti-Dâmboviţa, Cristian-Sibiu) with the Social Observatory (O.S., University of Bucharest), coordinator: prof. Vintilă Mihăilescu

Mobility, publishing and conference grants (coordinated)

2016: „ERA Fellowships” grant from German Ministry of Education and research, including a visiting stage at the Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung Regensburg (September-October 2016)

2010: ESS grant to participate in the 10th ESS training (Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), from 14th to 16th December in Mannheim, Germany

2009: ZA-EUROLAB, GESIS mobility grant to participate in the 38th Spring Seminar and to work at ZA-EUROLAB, financed by the FP6 „Structuring the European Research Area – Research Infrastructures Action” of the European Community, March 2009.

2008: CNCSIS MC-14/2008 mobility grant, Social trust in Europe: Is modernity a real threat to confidence in people? A quantitative approach, IIS Conference, Budapest, June 2008.

2007: CNCSIS MC-7/2007 mobility grant, Housework and gender inequality across Europe, ESA Conference, September 2007

2004-2005: EU Integration Process from EAST to EAST: Civil Society and Ethnic Minorities in a Changing World, coordinated with cu Anita Kalnina (Letonia) and Horaţu Rusu (România), grant B‑603-04-10089 from the Open Society Foundation, the program East – East Parteners Beyond Borders

2004: European Integration and Social Development in Postcommunist Societies; coordinated with Horaţiu Rusu, grant ULBS 140M/30.07.2004 from the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research

2004: joint Romanian Academy & Slovak Academy grant: Short research and documentation stage in the Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy, Bratislava, 7-14 October 2004

2003: Globalization, integration and social development in Central and Eastern Europe, coordinated with Horaţiu Rusu (România), grant B‑602-03-13513 from the Open Society Foundation, the programme East – East Parteners Beyond Borders.

2002-2003: coordonator al grantului Annual English Electronic Edition of the Sociologie Românească journal, susţinut prin programul „Grants for Open Access Journals” al Open Society Institute (Budapest) (2002-2003)

2001: ZA-EUROLAB, GESIS mobility grant to participate in the 30th Spring Seminar and to work at ZA-EUROLAB, financed by the 5th Framework Programme of the European Community, March 2001.

2000: University of Bucharest grant: research and study stage at Department of Sociology, Umeå University, Sweden, April-September 2000

2000: University of Bucharest grant: research and study stage at Kyonggi University, Suwon, South Korea: study of the Korean capitalist welfare pattern, May-June 1999

2000: University of Bucharest grant for a doctoral research stage at the Umeå University, Sweden, April-September 2000

1999: University of Bucharest grant for a doctoral research stage at the Kyonggi University, Suwon, Coreea de Sud: the Korean welfare state, May-June 1999

1997: Soros Foundation mobility grant to participate at ICPSR Summer School in Social Statistics, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June-August 1997.

Mentored post-doctoral projects:

2018-2020: Alin Croitoru, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu: Abilities and Innovative Knowledge in the case of return migrants: becoming entrepreneur through migration experience, CNCS grant PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2016-0659.

2011-2013, Romanian Academy, Research Institute for Quality of Life: Marian Vasile, with a research on Different ways to better life. International comparisons of life-satisfaction determinants over time, CNCS grant no. PN-II-RU-PD-2011-3-0117.

2011-2013, Romanian Academy, The Institute of Sociology: Ozana Oancea-Cucu, with a research on The celebration of Christmas. A qualitative analysis of the festive feeling from the longitudinal sociological perspective, CNCS grant no. PN-II-RU-PD-2011-3-0131.

2011-2013, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Department of Sociology: Horaţiu Rusu, with a research on What builds social solidarity in Europe? Exploring values and social practices though the identity lenses, CNCS grant no. PN-II-RU-PD-2011-3-0132.