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Danijela Dolenec has been awarded the 2020 Danubius Mid Career Award for research excellence by the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBFW).

At this year's annual conference of the Croatian Political Science Association we presented three papers related to the Disobedient Democracy project. The event took place via Zoom, on November 7, 2020, and it was attended by around 35 people, mostly faculty and students from the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb and other academic institutions in Croatia.

As part of this research collaboration, Danijela Dolenec and Daniela Širinić published a chapter entitled Mobilizing Against Change: Veteran Organizations as Pivotal Political Actors.

Ana's thesis chapter presented at II Barcelona PhD Workshop on Empirical Political Science

We participated in the Joint Symposium 'Has Eastern Europe really turned away from liberal democracy?' on 9 and 10 March 2020 in London.

The Swiss National Science Foundation's pilot programme PROMYS is funding seven young researchers in Eastern Europe.

We also presented the Right to the City paper on Urban Struggles in Serbia and Croatia at the bi-annual conference of the European Sociological Association that was held in Manchester, 20-23 August, 2019.

The main topics of the meeting were updates on project milestones, upcoming activities and events in years 4 and 5, and defining joint activities on further research collaboration.

The first big presentation of the project to a global academic audience was at the CES in Madrid

We presented new data on Right to the City and Housing Struggles in Croatia and Serbia at the Social Movements pre-conference of the 2019 CES in Madrid.

The first showcase of our dataset at the annual conference of the Mobilization journal in San Diego.

Danijela's text 'Disobedient democracies on Europe’s periphery: why are these crucial for rebuilding the left?' on the cover page of Open Democracy.

Project team members participated in this year's course 'The Diversity of Human Rights: Human Rights and Resistance' held at the IUC Dubrovnik.

The workshop Who is An Activist primarily set out to analyse biographical and transformative effects of protest. The sessions were organized around several themes, focusing on Old and New Actors, Discoursive Structures in Protest, Biographical Effects of Activism and the Ethical Register of Activism.

Thanks to funding from the Croatian Science Foundation, we will soon be hiring another PhD student to join our Disobedient Democracy team.

Have a look at the programme of the workshop and register to attend!

We are inviting papers for a workshop on biographical and transformative aspects of activism that will be held on June 13, 2018. Deadline for paper proposals is April 30, 2018.

The Disobedient Democracy project is dedicated to making its data freely accessible to the academic and wider interested community.

Established institutional cooperation in Lisbon and Belgrade.

How should we go about implementing Protest Event Anaysis data collection in four countries? Are we clear about our definition of protest event? How should we deal with missing data, description bias and conflicting reports?

18 students from the University of Zagreb are currently coding data for Croatia.

In July 2017 we established cooperation between the Faculty of Political Science and the Complutense University of Madrid.

Our research assistant Karlo Kralj has participated in this year's edition of the 'Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences – linking theory and empirical research', co-organized by Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) at Humboldt University and Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB).

After we recruited 18 coders, between June 26 – 30 we implemented test coding at the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb and the city library Božidar Adžija, which hosts the media archive.

At the Closing workshop of the FRINGE politics research network on citizen-led mobilization in Southeastern Europe Danijela Dolenec presented some throughts orienting future work on her project Disobedient Democracy.