Universities and Non-Governmental Organisations A Comparative European Study of the Potential for Civil Society Collaboration

Introduction

I.1. How Universities and NGOs Collaborate

I.2 How Universities and NGOs see each other. Review of literature on partnership concepts

Mateusz Lewandowski and Franciszek Czech

Part II. Stability, dynamics, imbalance – the realities of universities and the third sector in Poland

II.1 University as a collaborator – Universities, society and culture

Radosław Rybkowski

II.2 Third sector in Poland – legally defined but socially unfulfilled

Anna Jach

II.3 The power of cultural heritage. Civil society and UNI-NGO cooperation in the light of existing research

Renata Hołda

II.4 Culture and University’s third mission– NGOs as natural, but unappreciated partners?

Adam Żaliński

II.5 Bureaucratic ivory tower? Cooperation with NGO from the perspective of Polish HEIs

Franciszek Czech and Andrzej Porębski

Part III. European models of cross-sectoral cooperation in comparative perspective

III.1 Scientific institutions and civil society. A European Union perspective

Marta du Vall

III.2 Practical and efficient above all. Austria

Małgorzata Kołaczek

III.3 Multicultural mosaic as a strength. Portugal

Karolina Golemo

III.4 Heritage as a tool. Slovakia

Monika Banaś

III.5 The culture of NGO-HEI cooperation in the United Kingdom

Franciszek Czech

Part IV. The future of university-NGO cross-sectoral cooperation.

Conclusions with recommendations

Monika Banaś, Franciszek Czech, and Małgorzata Kołaczek

Biography

Monika Banas ́is Professor at the Faculty of International and Political Studies at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Her research focuses on culture, politics and their mutual dependencies. She has published on migration and integration policies, political culture and political symbolism. Her works include: Protest in Late Modern Societies. Dynamics, Forms, Futures (co-editor Ruslan Saduov), Routledge; Integration Policy as a Challenge for European Cohesion in Politicke Vedy, Swedish Migrant Integration Policy After 2015: A Revised Approach in the Shadow of the Migration Crisis in Fuori Luogo. She is the Chief Editor of the academic journal Intercultural Relations.

Franciszek Czech is a University Professor, sociologist and political scientist at the Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University, Cracow. His research interests include analysis of public discourses, political culture and civil society. He performs various administrative functions at the university, and in addition he has experience of collaboration with various non-governmental organisations. He is the author of two books, numerous articles and reports. He currently sits on the Advisory Board of the ERC-funded project “Populism and Conspiracy Theory (PACT)”. His most recent article is Links Between Conspiracy Thinking and Attitudes Toward Democracy and Religion: Survey Data From Poland ("Politics and Governance”).

Małorzata Kołczek, PhD, political scientist, is deputy director and Assistant Professor in the Institute of Intercultural Studies, Jagiellonian University. She is co-founder of Foundation Towards Dialogue and book review editor for Romani Studies. She is the author of Ethnic Mobilization of the Roma and the European Union. Poland, Slovakia, Hungary JUP 2014 and co-author of Direction: Future. 25 Years of Freedom and the Roma People JUP 2018 and Cooperation Between Universities and NGOs as Civil Society Animators Using the Potential of Cultural Heritage KA 2019. For 20 years, she has researched topics regarding the Roma community: ethnic mobilisation, socio-political situation and media coverage of Roma minority.