Egle Butkeviciene

Kaunas University of Technology · Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities

We are in a time of rapid change on multiple levels. Change can be seen as positive by one group and negative by another. As a result, different perspectives on any given change can draw completely different conclusions. In these proceedings we want to address different approaches to change from all kinds of perspectives within the realm of citizen...

This chapter explores the emigration and return migration of Lithuanian residents before and after the global pandemic. Lithuania, as a small European country, is also the one that has demonstrated high emigration numbers over the past two decades. However, in recent years, with the global pandemic, Brexit, and other turbulences the number of retur...

The MICS project has developed a platform, tools and resources for assessing the impact of citizen-science projects. Using both rule-based systems and neural networks, the MICS platform scores planned, current or past citizen-science projects on their anticipated or achieved impact across five “domains”: society, science, governance, the economy an...

The talk will highlight the citizen-science aspects of ProBleu, a European Commission--funded project that is promoting citizen science to mobilise and engage children, youth, teachers, and school communities in implementing the EU’s Mission Starfish, and restoring oceans and waters across 40 countries. By encouraging open schooling, which combines...

Citizen Social Science brings together social science researchers and citizens focusing on social issues, social phenomena and the social dimensions of the world, while applying and integrating social science methodologies and theories in their collaborative research efforts. These characteristics influence, for example, the focus and management of...

This deliverable is based on Work Package (WP) 3 in the EU YouCount project which includes a multiple case study of ten cases in nine countries across Europe. The social innovation analysis of this report is based on a case summary report from each case that focused on co-creative research with youths at risks for social exclusion. The report elabo...

Human activities continue to degrade oceanic, coastal and inland waters. The generational change in the role of society in actively looking after the health of water resources can be achieved through the expansion of ocean and water literacy in schools. The Network of European Blue Schools established under the EU4Ocean Coalition for Ocean Literacy...

Human activities continue to degrade oceanic, coastal and inland waters. The generational change in the role of society in actively looking after the health of water resources can be achieved through the expansion of ocean and water literacy in schools. The Network of European Blue Schools established under the EU4Ocean Coalition for Ocean Literacy...

Purpose: The paper proposes an alternative measure of the importance of prosocial values in the work motivation of public and private sector employees. Hitherto research measures the importance of values by taking them as autonomous entities or using a factorial design, asking employees whether they adhere to a certain value or not. Design/methodol...

This article takes a historical perspective to explain the development of the concept of social entrepreneurship, divergence between the forms of social enterprises (SEs) de jure and de facto in a post-Socialist society and approaches to typical tensions experienced by SEs as hybrid organisations. In this respect, the paper presents a framework of...

Social innovations are usually understood as new ideas, initiatives, or solutions that make it possible to meet the challenges of societies in fields such as social security, education, employment, culture, health, environment, housing, and economic development. On the one hand, many citizen science activities serve to achieve scientific as well as...

This article presents an overview of the ecosystem of citizen science development in Lithuania and its potential to address United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs). As citizen science is still in the early development stage in Lithuania, this case study is an example of ecosystem analysis in the period of early citizen science adoption....

The presented Research Topic explores the potential of citizen science to contribute to the development of social innovations. It sets the ground for analysis of mutual relations between two strong and embedded in the literature concepts: citizen science and social innovation. Simultaneously, the collection opens a discussion on how these two ideas...

This report describes the conceptual framework for youth involved citizen social science in the YouCount project. Moreover, the report presents the use of citizen social science as a mean for social innovation, highlights the dialogical framework for co-creative youth citizen social science, explores the conceptual and methodological framework for...

The paper investigates whether generalized trust in government varies among ethnic groups in a society. Theories on trust predominantly explain such institutional trust by the capabilities and intentions of the trusted actors and research into trust is mostly done at the individual level measuring whether individual characteristics of the trustee a...

Emigration and population shrinkage are challenges faced in countries and communities throughout the world. Based on a systematic literature analysis of approximately 600 articles, we examine voluntary emigration through the lens of non-economic factors, establishing a cohesive and coherent view of the literature landscape across disciplines and en...

Citizen science encompasses partnerships between professional scientists and society, opening opportunities for more active citizen engagement in co-creation of social change. Members of the scientific community and citizens are starting to experiment with digital and offline resources to collaborate with each other to solve societal problems. This...

This chapter explores the ways in which the roles of citizens and researchers play out in the social sciences. This is expressed by numerous overlapping and related terms, such as co-production and participatory action research, to name but two, and by the different social topics that citizen social science draws attention to. The key question this...

Social innovation brings social change and aims to address societal challenges and social needs in a novel way. We therefore consider citizen science as both (1) social innovation in research and (2) an innovative way to develop and foster social innovation. In this chapter, we discuss how citizen science contributes to society’s goals and the deve...

In this chapter, we explore the landscape of citizen science across Europe, how networks have developed, and how the science of citizen science has evolved. In addition to carrying out a literature review, we analysed publicly available data from the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service (Cordis). We also extr...

Šioje monografijoje autoriai tiria piliečių mokslo potencialą, leidžiantį piliečiams ir bendruomenėms patiems spęsti socialines problemas. Piliečių mokslas yra suprantamas kaip mokslinė veikla, kurioje neprofesionalūs mokslininkai savanoriškai dalyvauja renkant duomenis, analizuojant ir viešinant mokslinių tyrimų rezultatus. Tokie tyrimų projektai...

This working paper presents the findings of quantitave and qualititave research into populist communication on Facebook. Specifically, we look at how populist politicians from all across Europe used Facebook in their campaigns for the European Parliamentary elections in May 2019 and compared this with a posts from July 2019. We start the paper with...

Šiuolaikiniame viešajame valdyme nevyriausybinės organizacijos yra reikšmingos ir lygiavertės dalyvės, įtakingai prisidedančios kuriant visuomenės pažangą ir bendruomenės plėtrą. Ši tema vadovėlyje pristatoma glaustai, skaitytojai supažindinami su nevyriausybinių organizacijų teorija ir praktika tiek pasaulyje, tiek Lietuvoje. Knygoje aptariama nev...

This working paper presents the findings of quantitave and qualititave research into populist communication on Facebook. Specifically, we look at how populist politicians from all across Europe used Facebook in their campaigns for the European Parliamentary elections in May 2019 and compared this with a posts from July 2019. We start the paper with...

Citizen science evolved through multiple disciplinary manifestations into a new field of study and a participatory method of enquiry. While most citizen science projects take place within problem-focused natural sciences, social sciences and humanities help understanding the human dimension and open a broad methodological spectrum for enriching sci...

In this article, we consider the status of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in relation to government and public administration practice. For this purpose, we present and discuss a framework composed of three alignments. In the first alignment, social entrepreneurial practices and supportive policies, to the extent they exist, are full...

New social media such as Facebook and Google+ are web-based communication platforms that enable socially meaningful interactions between contacts in the virtual space (Ellison et al. 2014). Studies show that new social media are particularly conducive to social capital development, as they offer its users the possibility of creating heterogeneous,...

The debates on how to foster civic participation have intensified in current years, especially with the coming of digital era. New electronic social networks and other digital platforms promising the unseen possibilities for variety of activities including civic participation, has been emphasized as a factor facilitating civic engagement (Smith, 20...

This article investigates pro-environmental behaviours and activism focusing on the patterns of environmentally-oriented public behaviours (e.g. civic activities such as signing a petition about an environmental issue, giving money to an environmental group, or taking part in a protest or demonstration about an environmental issue, being a member o...

Straipsnio tikslas – aptarti nuotolinio darbo sampratos problematiką, apžvelgti nuotolinio darbo specifiką Lietuvoje, nustatyti privalumus ir iššūkius, su kuriais susiduria nuotoliniu būdu dirbantys darbuotojai. Iki šiol egzistuojanti nuotolinio darbo sampratų įvairovė sudaro nemažai keblumų kuriant tinkamą nuotolinio darbo tyrimo metodologiją ir l...

The governmental promotion of culture philanthropy as a significant issue in culture policy is widely discussed in scientific literature. Many authors (Sulek 2010, Payton, 2000, etc.) argue that, though philanthropy concept has antique origins, at present still there is no comprehensive perception of its full meaning and no well-thought-out definit...

The aim of this article is to discuss the concept of telework, analyze the trends of telework in Lithuania as well as benefits and challenges to the employees. The diversity of existing telework concepts leads to a number of difficulties in developing an appropriate research methodology on telework and comparing the results of different studies. Th...

The paper identifies stress-related health symptoms and work environment characteristics that older employees face in Lithuania. The data set consisted of 119 respondents of 50 years and older. Health symptoms were evaluated using 20 items derived from the Bristol stress and health work study (Smith et al., 2000). The work environment characteristi...

Mokslo studijoje analizuojama Europos Sąjungos (ES) piliečių požiūriai ir patirtys, susijusios su jų teisių įgyvendinimu, pristatomos ES pilietybės nuostatos ir teisės, nagrinėjama pilietybė ir žmogaus teisė, pilietiškumas, problemos, su kuriomis susiduria ES piliečiai, kai siekiama užtikrinti jų, kaip privačių asmenų, darbuotojų, studentų, vartoto...

Šiame straipsnyje analizuojama ideologijos reikšmė partijų veikloje. Praktinė Lietuvos partijų veikla rodo, kad jos nekelia sau tikslo savo veiklą grįsti aiškiai apibrėžtomis ideologinėmis vertybėmis. Lietuvos partijų organizacijos tyrimas atskleidė, kad partijų lyderiai turi institucionalizuotų galimybių vyrauti partijos organizacinėje hierarchijo...

The new challenges for health care system Keywords: health care system (HCS), welfare state, trust in healthcare system, ISSP (International Social Survey Program) The continuous shifts of the modern society are the causes and should account for changes in all the ways society operates. Risk related to socioeconomic changes, economic crisis, demono...

This article describes an investigation into public perceptions of food-related risks and food purchasing behavior in Lithuania. Study results reveal that food-related concerns are prevailing in Lithuanian society over concerns about many environmental, health and technological risks such as global climate change, nuclear power or genetic engineeri...

Taking over western social policy model, contemporary Lithuanian health care system (HCS) faces not only with the low trust in institutions but also with the changing biomedical position in the healing process. The increasing spectrum of chronic diseases and lay knowledge of patients, shifting doctor-patient relationship and all other indicators pr...

This article discusses increasingly heterogeneous nature of social policy in contemporary societies, focusing on the analysis of public attitudes towards the role of state, individual and family in the social provision. Existing literature does not present one answer what institutions should have a central role in creating social welfare as liberal...

Genetically modified products and food additives are the new biotechnology that could be understood as one of the symbols of modern society representing a controversial nature. The use of genetically modified products and food additives in food production can help solving the food shortage in the world, improve food taste, but at the same time they...

This article discusses interest, opportunities and preconditions for citizen participation in virtual discussions on political issues. It may be noticed that citizen participation in public discussions on political issues is not high, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. Thus, the analysis of opportunities and preconditions for political virtu...

The article is focused on a discussion of civil servants' managerial and leadership competences. By presenting empirical evidence from a research on leadership in the Lithuanian Civil Service, funded by Civil Service Department under the Ministry of the Interior, the article discusses the concept of civil servant-leader. The discussion leads to the...

The paper is focused on the discussion about the role of civil society in local governance and attempts to provide the answers to the questions: who is responsible for and should initiate the partnership between civil society organizations and local government? What are possible partnership models? How are public administrators affected by or do th...

This article presents a methodological framework that can be applied for analysing social innovations and explores character of social innovations in rural communities . The article focuses on several dimensions: the first dimension is ontological and refers to the concept of social innovation; the second one is epistemological and explores how soc...

The authors explore public attitudes towards genetically modified organisms (GMO) and GMO representation in the Lithuanian media. Thes paper is based on the results of an empirical research conducted in the framework of the RINOVA project (Risk Perceptions, Public Communication and Innovative Governance in Knowledge Society) funded by the Lithuania...

The aim of this paper is to explore public attitudes towards technological and environmental risk issues in Lithuania. These risk issues are analyzed in the broader context of other economic and social problems. The focus in this paper is on the perception of risks concerning nuclear power, climate change, and genetically modified organisms. The pa...

The article offers a discussion of the main consumption patterns by Lithuanian students. The theoretical analysis focuses on various aspects of consumption, presented by T. Veblen, P. Bourdieu, M. Marcuse, J. Baudrillard, M. Douglas and B. Isherwood. Theoretical assumptions have been tested in an empirical research based on an original methodology....

General methodological framework that can be applied for assessment of social impact(-s) of a technological innovation is presented in the paper. Methodological framework supposes a three-step analysis: (1) the description of a technological innovation under focus; (2) the character of the influence (the scope, timing, localization, etc.); (3) asse...

Nowadays, distance learning (DL) is run to meet important national and international needs based on economical, political, geographical and demographical conditions. It's the conditions of local and global societies that motivate utilization of DL, not only the strained economical conditions of the individual student [1]. Integral development of Li...