Venue


The 23rd Annual Workshop Transitions in Youth will be held in Room U32 of the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Joštova 10, 60200 Brno. The Workshop is organized by Office for Population Studies at Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University.

The venue is located within walking distance to the hotel (10 minutes maximum). See the route from the hotel to the venue on maps below or here.

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How to get there:

From the hotel, follow Kounicova street back to the city centre (towards the park on Moravian Square/ Moravské náměstí). After crossing the street, follow along the large yellow building of Masaryk University Rector's Office (with the park on your left). Reaching the end of the building (small gated garden), turn right to Brandlova street, cross the road (but watch out for upcoming trolleybuses) and head towards a beige-brownish building of the Constitutional Court (Česká street). At the left corner of the Court building turn right and continue straight ahead on Joštova street for about 200 m, passing red-brick Komenský church (on your right) before reaching light green building which is the Faculty of Social Studies. The short walk should take maximum 10 minutes.

See the photo guide here

 


Brief history

Masaryk University (MU) was established in 1919 (at that time comprising faculties of law, medicine, science, and arts) and functioned until the end of the 1930s. During the Nazi occupation, the university was closed and lost many of its employees (including professors) due to Nazi persecution. University’s renewal after the WWII was terminated by the events of 1948 (Communist coup) which brought about purges concerning both staff and students, reduction in number of faculties, and a name change to “Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Brno”. Improvements to the situation taking place in the 1960s were once again halted, this time by the “Normalization” period of the 1970s. The university returned to its original name after the fall of Communism in 1989 (renamed to Masaryk University in 1990). Since then it has been flourishing, seeing the establishment of new faculties, expansions in research activities, and international inter-university cooperation.

Faculty of Social Studies (FSS) was among these the new additions. Established in 1997, it originally included study programmes previously taught at the Faculty of Arts. Nowadays, the Faculty of Social Studies has seven departments (Environmental Studies, Media Studies and Journalism, International Relations and European Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Social Policy and Social Work, and Sociology) and four research institutes (Institute for Public Policy and Social Work, Institute for Research off Children, Youth and Family, International Institute of Political Science, and the Office for Population Studies). 

Office for Population Studies (UPS) is a relatively new research centre which is grounded in research tradition of the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Studies MU. Its main research themes are: changes in reproductive behaviour, population ageing, international migration, sexuality, values, and social stratification. Emphasized is hypothesis and theory testing based on empirical data analysis and applied are quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method techniques

  

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Faculty of Social Studies, click on image to enlarge

 


 

Where to find us


Masaryk University

Faculty of Social Studies

Joštova 10

602 00 Brno, Czech Republic