The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) has over 4,000 students and more than 20 undergraduate and graduate programmes in political science, sociology, communication, and cultural studies. The staff consists of 55 teachers, who are part-time researchers, and 56 full-time researchers. 

The Faculty provides courses that aim at increasing intercultural understanding and international co-operation. Through teaching and research, national and international issues are addressed at a time when globalisation requires new perspectives and it is in this spirit that the Institute of Social Sciences conducts international and multidisciplinary research programmes. There are 16 research centres at the Institute that undertake basic applied and developmental research projects in the social sciences that execute about 80 research projects annually, funded partly by the State and partly by contracts with national and international entities.

 The Centre for Welfare Studies was founded in 1984, its first task being a longitudinal study of the quality of life in Slovenia. Since then, research has addressed social policy, welfare, social protection, civil society, non-profit organisations, quality of social services, housing policy, vulnerable groups, migration, and mobility, and most recently social inclusion and quality. In addition to basic theoretical research, it conducts policy oriented research and provides evaluations. It is represented in working groups of the Council of Europe and in the Co-ordination Committee of the European Network for Housing Research. Members of the Centre teach at the University of Ljubljana and participate in the European post-graduate programme in European Social Policy Analysis.

Contact Details 

Address:

University of Ljublana

Faculty of Social Sciences

Institute of Social Sciences

P.O. Box 2547

Kongresni Trg. 12

1000 Ljubljana

SLOVENIA

Tel.:

+386 1/5805-100

Fax.:

+386 1/5805-101

E-mail:

fdv.faculty@fdv.uni-lj.si

Web-page:

http://www.fdv.uni-lj.si/

About Zinka Kolarič, National Co-ordinator CINEFOGO, Slovenia

from University of Ljublana

Zinka Kolarič is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Her fields of research include social policy, private non-profit/voluntary organizations, civil society, welfare systems, changes in the welfare systems, post-socialist social policy and social protection.

She has authored and co-authored publications on non-profit organisations, both in a national and a international  perspective, and with regard to the question of welfare and service provision.  Zinka Kolarič has also contributed with theoretical approaches  to the analysis of non-profit organisations.

About Mojka Novak 

from University of Ljublana

Mojka Novak is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana and Head of the Social Protection Institute of the Republic of Slovenia. Her main research fields are social policy, welfare state development, welfare mix, modernisation and industrialisation at the European periphery, living standards, poverty, social inclusion, pension reforms, social indicators and social cohesion.

In recent years, Mojka Novak has contributed to publications about European pension schemes, the socialist welfare model, social systems and poverty. 

About Matej Kovačič

from University of Ljublana

Matej Kovačič, PhD is a  researcher at Centre for Public Opinion Research at Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana and assistant professor in area of social informatics and methodology. He is collaborating in several projects of Centre for Public Opinion
Research, including European Value Survey, International Social Survey
Programme and European Social Survey. He was also collaborating in
Research of the Internet in Slovenia project. His research areas are also privacy, surveillance and cybercrime in cyberspace. He published a book Privacy On the Internet in 2003. His
work was presented in many expert and scientific conferences in Slovenia
and worldwide.

About Tatjana Rakar

from University of Ljublana

Tatjana Rakar, PhD, is a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana. Her fields of research involve studies of nonprofit organisations, the role of the church as a social service provider, the development of private and denominational education and changes in the post-socialist welfare systems. Recently she has published an article The Role of the Roman Catholic Church in the Service Provision of Education in Slovenia and Hungary (Social Compass, 2005).