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VIS-DA-VIA
Virtues and strengths of children and adolescents at primary school age – VIS-DA-VIA (Project code: UFZG-NPOO-25-275)
The aim of the project is to examine the character strengths and virtues of primary school students in Croatian context by developing and validating a measuring instrument, and to examine their association with personal and contextual factors, and psychological and educational outcomes.
Project leader: Associate Professor Lana Jurčec, PhD
Project duration: 2025 – 2029
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TRIO
Tradition, Region, Identity, Education – strengthening identity discourse in Croatian education system – TRIO (Project code: UFZG-NPOO-25-60)
The aim of the project is to strengthen student identity awareness by developing innovative teaching materials and by empowering teachers to implement new, modern teaching methods and approaches.
Project leader: Professor Zdenko Braičić, PhD
Project duration: 2025 – 2029
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TEACH
Teaching: Exploring Aspirations, Choices, and Happiness – TEACH (Project code: UFZG-NPOO-25-478)
The aim of the research is to examine the perceptions of the teaching profession from three different perspectives: senior high-school students, final-year classroom teacher and teacher education students, and in-service classroom and subject teachers in primary schools.
Project leader: Assistant Professor Tomislava Vidić, PhD
Project duration: 2025 – 2029
Project website: https://sites.google.com/view/teachprojekt
SPDIP
Support strategies for children with challenging behaviour: Inclusive approach in early childhood and preschool education institutions, schools, and families – SPDIP (Project code: UFZG-NPOO-25-077)
The aim of the project is to examine the frequency and nature of challenging behaviour of children in early childhood and preschool education institutions and in lower grades (1st – 4th grade) of primary school, and their association with the characteristics and competencies of preschool and primary teachers and family factors. At the same time, the impact of syncretic and multimodal approach in the context of prevention will be tested.
Project leader: Professor Siniša Opić, PhD
Project duration: 2025 – 2029
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RAST
Transforming educational practice to promote active participation – RAST (Project code: UFZG-NPOO-25-530)
Within the project, research will be carried out with the aim to determine the level of civic education competencies of students in early childhood and teacher education studies, and in-service preschool and primary school teachers. The research will comprise desk research and empirical research.
Project leader: Associate Professor Višnja Rajić, PhD
Project duration a: 2025 – 2029
Project website: https://rast.ufzg.hr
PROFON
Prosodic and phonetic structures in bilingual processing – PROFON (Project code: UFZG-NPOO-25-28)
The project explores bilingual processing from the aspect of phonetic and phonological linguistic analysis level, with emphasis placed on the segmental phonetic and prosodic components.
It is divided into three parts, that is, three separate experiments based on the eye-tracking methodology.
Project leader: Associate Professor Kristina Cergol, PhD
Project duration: 2025 – 2029
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ODRED
Determinants of physical activity in children at preschool and primary school age – ODRED (Project code: UFZG-NPOO-25-91)
The aim of this project is to identify and describe the determinants of physical activity in children at preschool and primary schol age based on a multidimensional assessment.
Project leader: Associate Professor Ivan Šerbetar, PhD
Project duration: 2025 – 2029
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MUDIM
Multimodal artistic discoursees for children and young people: a correlation between literary, visual arts, and film language– MUDIM (Project code: UFZG-NPOO-25-476)
The project explores multimodal artistic discourses designed for children and teenagers. The research focuses on the correlation between literary, visual arts, and film language, especially on the transmediation processes implemented through various types of contact, interference, and transformation.
Project leader: Professor Andrijana Kos Lajtman, PhD
Project duration: 2025 – 2029
Project website: https://mudim.ufzg.hr
MetaTeach
Metaphor in first and foreign language teaching – MetaTeach (Project code: UFZG-NPOO-25-388)
The aim of the project is to explore the correlation between metaphoric competence and metalinguistic awareness in Croatian as the first language and English as a foreign language in young learners.
Project leader: Assistant Professor Jelena Parizoska, PhD
Project duration: 2025 – 2029
Project website: https://metateach.ufzg.hr/
KURS
Competencies of preschool teachers and classroom teachers for early foreign language teaching – KURS (Project code: UFZG-NPOO-25-277)
The KURS project is focused on improving the quality of early childhood and primary education (ISCED 0 and ISCED 1) by strengthening professional competencies of preschool teachers and classroom teachers.
Project leader: Associate Professor Željka Knežević, D.A.
Project duration: 2025 – 2029
Project website: https://kurs.ufzg.hr
