The social base of the transformation programmes in Belarus

The research aims to give meaningful and quantitative description of the Belarusian society's attitudes to innovation and the scale of self-determination.

The main objectives of the study:

• Discovering the main characteristics of innovative behavior of Belarusians, susceptibility and attitudes towards innovation and social transformation;
• Description of the "loci of self-determination" of Belarusians: the boundaries of the world in which respondents feel themselves at home, as well as communities and groups with which they identify themselves;
• Analysis of links between susceptibility to innovations and way of life characteristics as a factor affecting the degree of susceptibility;
• Analysis of the potential and factors of Belarusians' participation in the transformation process through the description of world view and socio-political attitudes, as well as the experience of participation in political life and the perception of civil society organisation as an agent of transformation.