Dr. Damian Liszka

Adjunct professor in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Pedagogical University of Krakow (Poland), trainer, developer and manager of innovative and transnational B+R, research and implementation projects. As a researcher and an expert, he is responsible for supporting young people, including those who remain outside the sphere of employment and education, i.e. those who are not learning and do not work at the same time (”NEET” – not in employment, education or training). Research areas (selected): youth, labor and education market, social and professional exclusion, European Union.

Projects (selected):

• „Identification of barriers hindering the Ukrainian and Polish students’ return to schools” (from: 2021-07-01 to: 2022-08-01). NAWA Urgency Grants
• „Preventing post-COVID Social Exclusion Together” (from: 2021-06-01 to: 2022-11-30). Visegrad Fund Strategic Grants
• „Mentoring NEETs. An innovative form of counseling supporting the educational and professional activation of NEET youth”(from: 2019-01-01 to: 2021-11-30). POWER 4.3. Social innovations and transnational cooperation
• „DUAL. Transnational cooperation towards supporting dual education in vocational training and education institutions „(from: 2019-02-18 to: 2020-04-30). POWER 4.3. Social innovations and transnational cooperation

 

Publications (selected):

• Liszka D., Walawender P. (2021). Cooperation towards supporting dual education systems (vocational education). HSS, Research Journal 28, No. 2 (2021), pp. 43-55
• Liszka D., Walawender P. (2021). The NEET youth program in the Subcarpathian voivodeship in the light of new research. HSS, Research Journal 28, No. 1 (2021), pp. 57-71
• Liszka D., Walawender P. (2019). Cross-Sectoral Cooperation Toward a Work-Life Balance. HSS, Vol. XXIV, 26 (1/2019), pp. 57-66
• Liszka D., Walawender P. (2018). Neet Youth – the Concept’s Presence in the European Union’s Youth Employment Policy and Why It Is So Problematic. HSS, Vol. XXIII, 25 (4/2018), pp. 179-193