Glocal Challenges Lab (Global social, economic and cultural challenges. Globality and localness) is a community of ambitious scholars, focused on issues that constitute challenges for an evolving society in the geographical space.

GCL is concentrated on – but not restricted to – challenges shaping the contemporary geographical space, such as:

• economic challenges (digitalisation and virtualisation in business, new types of business activities and their influence on society and economy; low-emission transport);

• demographic and social challenges (social and economic implications of ageing societies; changes in social relations and their influence on economy; activisation and social participation in the process of creating inventive workplaces and leisure areas; migration crisis);

• spatial challenges (the processes of space management; metropolitan spaces and suburbanisation; territorial systems; sustainable development of cities; conflicts stemming from the coexistence of various functions of varied degrees in the geographical space);

• leisure challenges (unification and individualisation of consumption patterns; responsible consumption; virtual reality and singular or collective usage of free time; expectations, motivations, experiences, satisfaction linked to travels in the context of new forms and trends in travelling).

• cultural challenges (today's society and old, preserved cultural landscapes; multiculturalism and various degrees of political actions).

First edition of the call for mini-grant proposals for academic teachers under action 2 (Incentives) of the PRA Society of the Future of the strategic programme Excellence Initiative at the Jagiellonian University

We invite researchers from the Jagiellonian University to sumbit applications in our minigrant calls.

We kindly ask all applicants to familiarize themselves with:

• announcements of calls,
• terms and conditions,
• information on how to apply (to be translated).

The application forms will be open from December 8, 2020, to January 5, 2021.