Projects
Creation
of an effective system of protected areas in Slovenia
Ethics
in education for sustainable development
Religion
and sexisem: The image of Women in the Judaeo-Christian
Tradition
"We
called for work-force then people came"analysis of the
social structure and integration strategies of foreign workers
in Slovenia
Democratic
Eksperimentalism: pragmatic and intercultural approach
Opera
Audience in Slovenia: An Anthropological Research of the
Nation's Cultural Capital
Contested
spatial practices, spatial meanings and social relations in
the protected area in the Bovec region
Development
opportunities of Slovenian border areas after the entrance of
the Republic of Slovenia into the Schengen space
Fertility
behavior in
Slovenia, 1840 - 2002: economic, social and cultural factors of
regional, social and ethnic differences of fertility in ethnic
Slovenian territory
The
analysis of shared intercultural values as a factor in
democratic governance and decision-making
Integration
policies – establishing an evaluation model and longitudinal
monitoring instruments
Formation of a common Slovene cultural
space and cross-border integrations within the framework of
European consolidation
Alcohol
abuse among Slovene youth
Minorities
and border social realities as factors in integration
processes
Southeast
Europe and Republic of Slovenia in the Light of Actual
European Territorial Processes
The
Formulation of Controversial Themes in Public: A
Methodological Corrective of Longitudinal Survey Research
Based on the Use of Text Analysis and Process Theory of Public
Opinion
The
Analysis of Domestic Violence in Slovenia – Proposals for
Preventive Actions and Measures
Women
in Slovene Armed Forces – The Development of Strategies for
an Enhanced Integration and Better Working Conditions
Chronological
Survey of Monotheistic Religions in the Northeast Adriatic
Region
The
Understanding of the Identities of the Cultural World as a
Basis of the Humanitarian Study
Socialnointegracijska
vloga šole v območjih kulturnega stika in družbenega
povezovanja na primeru slovensko-italijanske meje
Narodna
in kulturna identiteta na območju slovensko-italijanskega
kulturnega stika v procesih evropske integracije
Identity
and the ethnic structure of Slovene Istra
Basic
criteria and methods of the protection and sustainable
planning of the coastal region of Slovenia
The function of border and ethnically mixed areas and the
process of cross-border integration in Slovenia - the case of
the Slovenian Istria
Project:
Creation
of an effective system of protected areas in
Slovenia
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Target
Oriented Research Project
Project
Manager: dr. Anton
GOSAR, Ph.D.
Duration:
1.9.2008
– 28.02.2010
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The
project will analyze the efficiency of the existing
protected areas management system in Slovenia (taking into
account environmental, social and economic factors) by using
a comparable standardized method (RAPPAM or European Site
Consolidated Scorecard); the operation of individual
protected areas management entities in Slovenia (public
institutes, concessionaires, private protection entities),
with the analysis including proposals to cooperate with
other management entities and a comparison of the Slovene
system with foreign management systems; the existing
materials for the conception of methodology used in
preparation of management plans. It will also prepare
guidelines for the completion of methodology conception,
conceive the vision of a future protected areas management
system, and provide practical guidelines, recommendations
and proposals for the expansion of the protected areas
network, its management and financing (legal and financial
aspects), analyze the existing financial sources and suggest
alternative ones, and propose legal amendments in order to
make the implementation of the new protected areas
management system feasible.
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Project:
Ethics
in education for sustainable development
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Target
Oriented Research Project
Project
Manager: dr. Anton
MLINAR, Ph.D.
Duration:
1.9.2008
– 30.08.2010
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Education
for sustainable development includes the development of new
teaching and learning methods and the introduction of
improvements in schools and other educational institutions,
related in particular to their autonomy and constructive
communication, cooperation, conflict management and decision-taking.
Its aim is to sensitize young people – the future decision-makers
– to the quality of the (human) environment and programme
feasibility. The project encourages educational institutions
to add ecological topics, such as sustainable development
and its ethical dimension, to their curricula, which in turn
gives rise to new teaching culture. As a result, school
autonomy gains a new practical meaning, while educational
institutions are given the possibility of establishing
direct in-house cooperation (communication and partnership),
as well as collaboration with their immediate environment.
Last but not least, education for sustainable development
will allow us to approach the highest international
standards enabling us to experience our immediate
environment at individual level, to perceive it as a subject,
to incorporate it into society as an important factor and
“partner in dialogue”, and to see it as an opportunity
to act responsibly.
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Project:
Religion
and sexisem: The image of Women in the Judaeo-Christian
Tradition
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Postdoc
Basic Research Project
Project
Manager: dr. Nadja FURLAN,
Ph.D.
Duration:
1.2.2008
– 31.1.2010
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Research
project deals with culture's theology of european-slovene
religious space and women's comparative religious studies (comparative
religious study will attempt some comparisons of the
treatment of women in two major world religions: Judaism and
Christianity) and more precisely with analysis of models
which allow a modern understanding of place and role of
multircultural phenomenon of feminist theology within the
framework of interreligious women's studies (judeo-christian).
The research with help of hermeneutic key of feminist
theology pose on recognizing different negative gender
stereotypes and prejudices and also suppressing mechanisms
which have formed through the past and marked personal
relations and individual gender.
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Project:
"We called for
work-force then people came"analysis of the social
structure and integration strategies of foreign workers in
Slovenia
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Basic Research Project
Project
Manager: dr. Milan
BUFON, Ph.D.
Duration:
1.2.2008
– 31.1.2011
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The
research project aims at identifying the present population
of foreign workers in
Slovenia
by distinguishing among ‘traditional immigrants’ (from
the regions of the former
Yugoslavia
) and the ‘new immigrants’ (from other “third state”
countries). Since the data concerning the social
circumstances and the level on integration into Slovenian
society is very scarce the study is intended to provide
insights on the social structure
of the population of foreign workers and further knowledge
on values, expectations and needs that characterize this
population. Moreover the study is intended to compare the
two groups of immigrants and observe the differences
existing among groups and individuals who arrived in
Slovenia
in different periods.
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Project:
Democratic
Eksperimentalism: pragmatic and intercultural approach
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Basic Research Project
Project
Manager:dr. Lenart
Škof, Ph.D.
Duration:
1.2.2008
– 31.1.2011
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After
the standard western model of liberal and social democracy
faced its crisis, its consequence being social problems and
poverty in the less developed or so called big marginalized
countries (Brasil, Russia, India, China, Indonesia), the
question of how cultural and value differences of various
civilization circles will provide their answers and
proposals for reshaping and enrichment of the basic
democratic institutions of the modern world steps to the
forefront. Pondering upon this answers and proposals, which
will according to the Ch. Taylor be one of the most pressing
issues of the 21st century, represents one of the most
important tasks of contemporary pragmatist philosophy, which
derives its importance from the central notion of the
practical difference, i.e. the difference within our future
experience, which was for the first time mentioned by
William James and further expanded by John Dewey, who was
one of the first scholars to use it within the intercultural
context and thereby anticipated democratic experimentalism
of R.M. Unger, i.e. restoring the social space, which could
help creating better conditions of democratic life through
alternative ideas and visions about democratic society. On
this theoretic background, which opens up the question of
the possibility of new social hope, the project Democratic
experimentalism: pragmatist and intercultural approach will
try to connect this thought to intercultural context and
raise a question about intercultural potential of islamic,
indian and chinese visions of the democratic mode of human
coexistence for the western model of progressive alternative
to democracy. At the same time, the project will examine the
birth and ideal of western idea of universal human rights
and in a similar way try to reconsider the alternative
suggestions for understanding human rights inside different
cultural and civilisation circles.
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Project:
Opera Audience in Slovenia: An Anthropological Research of the
Nation's Cultural Capital
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Postdoc
Basic Research Project
Project Manager:
dr.
Vlado
KOTNIK, Ph.D.
Duration:
1. 1. 2007 – 31.12.2008
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The
proposed project deals with the social and cultural history
of opera audiences and with the reception history of
specific cultural goods, particularly focusing on the
significance, the structure, the frequency and the social
recruitments of opera audiences and opera goers as visible
phenomenon with the important role in constituting and
accompanying some identity processes of Slovenian cultural
and ethnical territory from the middle of the 19th
century till today. In selective thematic parts, the
research will necessarily employ the understanding of
general national art and music history as well as local,
regional and national political and economical sharing
histories. The project will in its final instance also show
some interregional and multicultural aspects and contacts
between different national environments (for instance, the
significance of neighbouring opera centres like Austria’s
Graz, Klagenfurt or even Vienna, then Italy’s Trieste and
Venice as world-famous opera metropolises, also near
Croatia’s Rijeka and Zagreb) and their impact on Slovenian
opera houses’ functioning as well as on Slovenian
audiences’ recruitments and opera entering practices. This
project will employ a set of anthropological methods
(fieldwork, making ethnography), work with archives as well
as with other analytical procedures from different social
sciences and humanities (semiotic analysis, discourse
analysis, statistics).
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Project:
Contested
spatial practices, spatial meanings and social relations in
the protected area in the Bovec region
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Postdoc
Basic Research Project
Project Manager:
dr. Matej
VRANJEŠ, Ph.D.
Duration:
1.
1. 2007 – 31.12.2008
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The
purpose of the project is to use ethnographic fieldwork
methods to study various contested spatial practices, spatial
meanings, values and the associated social relations in the
Bovec region. The research will focus mainly on the alpine
Trenta valley, i.e. an area inside the Triglav National Park
(TNP). Attention will be focused especially on issues of the
preservation and changing of the cultural landscape and the
related spatial practices. The emphasis will be on the
relationship between traditional uses of land for subsistence
and more recent practices which various land users and/or
managers have brought to the valley. The role, practices and
representations of three key groups of social actors will be
highlighted: locals, seasonal residents (“weekenders”) and
TriglavNational Park. The main purpose of the research is to point out potential
conflicts of interest with regard to the use of the local
physical environment and at the same time to research the
social boundaries, relations and relationships between the
abovementioned groups. The research will be conducted in the
context of the current public debates about the new law on the
TNP in
Slovenia. Information technology will be used to document the current
condition and the changing of the cultural landscape and
different types of spatial practices in representative
regions.
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Project: Development
opportunities of Slovenian border areas after the entrance of
the Republic of Slovenia into the Schengen space
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Target
Oriented Research Project
Project Manager:
dr. Milan
BUFON, Ph.D.
Duration:
1.
1. 2007 – 31.12.2009
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The
project wishes to contribute to the development of an integral
and lasting concept of the arrangement and planning of the
Slovenian border areas in conditions of crossborder
integrations and stemming from social and spatial processes
that are to be initiated by
Slovenia’s entry into the Schengen territory. The project wishes to
study and offer actual expert and developmental solutions in
view of the three main complex issue frameworks:
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development opportunities of Slovenian border areas after
Slovenia’s entry into the Schengen
territory;
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solving of the problems of the peripheral character in an
economic-spatial sense and of marginality in a socio-cultural sense;
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synergic and optimal use of means allocated for the
development of border areas by the
Republic
ofSlovenia, the neighbouring countries and various European institutions
for the development of border
areas.
Namely,
the newEurope
will be in the first place tested in its very numerous border
and ethnically mixed areas. This of course offers new
opportunities to Slovene border areas, as well as new
challenges, mainly in the reorganisation of traditional forms
of activities and their adaptation to the new functions.
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Project: Fertility
behavior in
Slovenia, 1840 - 2002: economic, social and cultural factors of
regional, social and ethnic differences of fertility in ethnic
Slovenian territory
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Basic
Research Project
Project Manager:
dr. Irena
ROŽMAN, Ph.D.
Duration:
1.
1. 2007 – 31.12.2009
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Fertility
decline in
Sloveniabegan as a consequence of conscious and planned birth
limitations at the end of the 19th century, but its start and
extent depended on the regional, social, professional and
ethnic circumstances prevailing. This trend cannot be
dependent on modernization processes of industrialization,
urbanization and secularisation alone. Big regional
differences in fertility prove that it is not only influenced
by demographic processes (mortality, number of weddings) and
modernization processes, but were also created and maintained
through a conflux of various economic, social and cultural
levers, stationed between the macro and micro social
environments. Among them are the marriage and inheritance
customs, forms of family organization connected to the mode of
production, religious and moral doctrines, education, living
level, consumption capabilities, possibilities for social and
political activity of women, costs of care and treatment for
children, social mobility, birth customs, (in) effectiveness
of contraceptive methods, etc.
The
above mentioned reveals that the general theory of fertility
behaviour, i.e. the theory of demographic transition, which
could satisfactorily describe the fertility behaviour in all
societies no matter the time or the place, is neither
justifiable nor possible. It should be based on specific
contexts, including the historical, social, cultural and other
aspects, which can be attained only through micro research.
The
purpose of the interdisciplinary research of fertility
behaviour is to show: 1. How and through which social
mechanisms and micro-cultural systems the fertility behaviour
changed, 2. When and 3. Why does the need to limit births
develop.
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Project: The
analysis of shared intercultural values as a factor in
democratic governance and decision-making
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Applied
Research Project
Project Manager:
dr. JanBEDNARICH, Ph.D.
Duration:
1.
1. 2007 – 31.12.2009
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Globalisation
as a world-wide phenomenon represents a major challenge for
the structuring of the societies of the beginning of the new
millennium. As recently testified by a number of events on the
international, national and local level, the emergence of a
globalized society is not risk free, even in the case of
allegedly unproblematic micro-societies and communities. In
this context, the constitution of a set of common values, as
already established in the sense of universal human rights,
has to be integrated by a thorough philosophical analysis of
shared intercultural values in order to set up a pragmatic
framework for governance and decision-making. More in general,
understanding the intercultural dimensions of the contemporary
societies and how national cultural identity interacts with
other identities, with aspecific
view on European diversity and the globalized world, is
essential to develop a civic competence based on knowledge.
Achieving
a sense of democratic “ownership” of these values and an
active democratic participation by the citizens is an
important milestone in building a shared understanding and
respect for Europe’s diversities and commonalities in terms
of culture, institutions, history, languages and values.
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Project:
Integration
policies – establishing an evaluation model and longitudinal
monitoring instruments
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Target Oriented Research Project
Project Manager:
dr. Simona ZAVRATNIK,
Ph.D.
Duration:
1. 10. 2006 – 30. 9. 2008
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The
goal of the proposed research projects is multi-layered and
consists of an analysis of the existing Slovene integration
policy (covering the fields of economic, cultural, political
and social integration) by means of a detailed review of
individual sector policies (education, employment, housing,
language, culture, minority/ethnic policies, etc.). In
accordance with the recommendations and strategic guidelines
of the European Union, and based on comparable studies carried
out in other European countries, special attention will be
dedicated to the following topics: right of reuniting of
family members, work access, equal treatment in the work
place, civil citizenship and ensuring the rights of
non-naturalised immigrants, prevention of discrimination and
xenophobia. Of key importance in the evaluation of integration
policies is a systematic monitoring and survey of public
opinion, as it provides feedback on the effects and degree of
success of integration processes from the entire society. A
focused public opinion survey will be designed as a
specialised measuring instrument enabling a longitudinal
survey of opinions, which will allow us to obtain
representative opinions in
Slovenia. The purpose of the public opinion research will thus be to
obtain a systematic set of opinions and estimates on
migrations within
Slovenia, on the integration of immigrants, on multiculturality,
solidarity, social distance, degree of discrimination and
xenophobia, etc.
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Project:
Formation of a common Slovene cultural space and cross-border
integrations within the framework of European consolidation
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Target Oriented Research Project
Project Manager:
dr. Millan BUFON,
Ph.D.
Duration:
1. 10. 2006 – 30. 9. 2008
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The
aim of the project is, firstly, to contribute to the
development of a comprehensive and permanent concept of the
formation and organisation of a common cultural space within
cross-border integrations, and secondly, to study and offer
concrete professional and developmental solutions to problems
related to three main subject areas:
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development possibilities for Slovene minorities in
neighbouring countries
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solving problems of peripherality in the economic and
spatial sense, and those of marginality in the
socio-cultural sense
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synergistic and optimal use of the funds allocated for the
development of border regions by the
Republic
ofSlovenia, neighbouring countries and European institutions
A
comprehensive consideration of these subjects will enable
Sloveniato intervene effectively to the benefit of its minority
communities, as well as employ an active and planned use of
the instruments for the development of border regions and
cross-border cooperation in accordance with its interests in
actualising the concept of a common Slovene cultural space.
The Slovene border and ‘contact’ areas could, taking into
account the indicated specifics and the encouraging
socio-cultural and economic-spatial potential, and with the
support of the Republic of Slovenia, interested neighbouring
countries and various European programmes, develop into a very
interesting ‘laboratory’ for the introduction of new
models for the consolidation of different institutional and
everyday forms of interethnic integration at the south-eastern
‘margin’ of the European Union.
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Project:
Alcohol abuse among Slovene youth
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Target Oriented Research Project
Project Manager:
dr. Anja ZALTA, Ph.D.
Duration:
1. 10. 2006 – 30. 9. 2008
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The
main goal of this research project is to complete a
comprehensive analysis of alcohol use and abuse among the
young in
Slovenia, with the purpose of eliciting expert suggestions and
strategies for its efficient prevention. The project will thus
attempt to establish for Slovene youth: the range of alcohol
use/abuse, the percentage of alcohol consumers under 15 years
of age (one of the segments most at risk), basic reasons for
alcohol use/abuse, perception of the problem of alcohol abuse,
value orientations in correlation with alcohol use and abuse,
ways of spending leisure time, needs and desires for active
ways of spending leisure time, motor activities within the
framework of leisure time activities, differences in the
answers related to the above sections of the project according
to demographic characteristics of the pattern included in the
study (gender, age, place of residence, religious affiliation,
etc.), differences in answers according to regions,
differences in alcohol abuse according to individual groups of
migrants, etc.
Mladi
in alkohol v Sloveniji
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Project:
Minorities
and border social realities as factors in integration
processes
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Applied
Research Project
Project Manager:
dr. Mateja SEDMAK, Ph.D.
Duration:
1. 9. 2005 – 31. 8. 2008
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The
project represents an integrated examination of the minority
issues and the border social reality in the Slovene-Italian
cultural contact area. Within this framework, the project will
provide a complex comparative analysis of the Slovene and
Italian minorities, cross-border contacts, and reveal the
importance as well as the role of the minorities in the
formation of the common Slovene cultural space and within
integration processes. In relation to the research of these
issues, emphasis will be laid on the (inter)personal and
(inter)group levels of the research of minority issues.
Furthermore, the project will include a detailed analysis of
(cross-border) migrations as a central phenomenon inherent to
border areas, with special emphasis laid on cross-border
economic migrations and migrations of vulnerable groups
(irregular migrants, unaccompanied children, women, etc.).
Another important factor is the changes to the examined area
caused by globalisation and European integration processes,
particularly in reference to the dynamics that apply to
increasingly mobile populations. The next section analyses the
(potentially common) media space consisting of the minority
media in relation to the national media space, and the media
discourse in relation to minority issues, national culture,
and minority and national vitality. Last but not least, the
project includes, based on the foundations of modern
philosophy, an analysis of the question of multicultural
education, or, education for intercultural coexistence and
symbiosis that will have practically applicable value at all
levels of the educational process, from kindergartens to the
tertiary level institutions.
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Project:
Southeast
Europe and Republic of Slovenia in the Light of Actual
European Territorial Processes
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Basic Research Project
Project Manager:
dr.
Milan BUFON, Ph.D.
Duration:
1.7.2004-30.6.2007
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The
purpose of this applied research is to discuss some of
politico-geographic questions concerning the regionality
of Southeast Europe and the perspectives of Republic of
Slovenia in the context of the creation of the New
European Geopolitical Structure. The research will
embrace a knot of geographical, historical, cultural,
demographical extensions and viewpoints of stability and
security. The actual European processes - integration
and disintegration, regionalisation and
individualization, europeisation and balkanisation -
already quite clear design the geopolitical specialitis
and characteristics typical for the Europe as for the
region called Southeast Europe. These characteristic are
Europe's core and geopolitical and geostratgical
faultlines, frontier areas, system of pseudo-states and
quasi-states (limitrophs). Slovenia will by its
accession to European Union structure become its edge
state facing to the new geopolitical construct named
"Western Balkans". As the state with elements
of Centraleuropean and Mediterranean, Southeuropean and
South-Slavic identity, Slovenia will be fallen into
position of Gateway state between European union and the
questionable region "Western Balkans", and
will simultaneously become the edge-state of the
frontier area, precisely, at the convergence space of
the three religious-civilizations - Western
Christianity, Easter Christianity and Islamic
Mohammedanism. In this context a very important element
is the functioning of the new territorial border of the
European Union, the future Schengen external border, and
its impacts on the social environment. In these
frameworks we need to identify and scientifically seek
good and bad sides of the new position, role and
possibility of the Republic of Slovenia, and to offer
the findings to social and political practice.
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Project:
The
Formulation of Controversial Themes in Public: A
Methodological Corrective of Longitudinal Survey Research
Based on the Use of Text Analysis and Process Theory of Public
Opinion
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Target Oriented Research Project
Project Manager:
dr.
Andrej PINTER, Ph.D.
Duration:
1.9.2004-31.8.2005
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Subject of the research are complex factors on the basis of which
controversial themes are formulated in public. Attention is
primarily focused on factors that derive from (a) the
presentation of individual themes in mass media and (b) the
publication of results yielded by public opinion research
thereon. The ultimate objective is to identify the key factors
underlining this process and convert them into known forms of
longitudinal survey research. Text analysis will be used for
investigating the occurrence of individual themes in media,
while publishing of results yielded by public opinion research
will be employed for the purposes of classifying their
dynamics. In the methodological sense, this objective is
conceptualised as a corrective of the dominant measurement
method, i.e. longitudinal survey research.
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Project:
The Analysis of
Domestic Violence in Slovenia – Proposals for Preventive
Actions and Measures
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Target Oriented Research Project
Project Manager:
dr.
Mateja SEDMAK, Ph.D.
Duration:
1.9.2004-31.8.2006
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Project: Women in Slovene Armed Forces – The Development of Strategies for an
Enhanced Integration and Better Working Conditions
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Target Oriented Research Project
Project Manager:
dr.
Mateja SEDMAK, Ph.D.
Duration:
15.8. 2004-15.8.2006
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Project:
Chronological Survey of Monotheistic Religions in the
Northeast Adriatic Region
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Basic Research Project
Project Manager:
dr.
Milan BUFON, Ph.D.
Duration:
1.7.2004-30.6.2006
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The
research project explores a rather current issue concerning
the survey of three monotheistic religions - Judaism,
Christianity and Islam - in the northeast Adriatic region.
Apart from historical tracing of migrations from different
geopolitical locations and observation of changes resulting
from migrations of peoples to or over this territory, the
research also investigates into the history of ideas of the
three religions, their cultural intertwining and personal
relations as well as the images of the "Other" in
time and space. Such approach demands knowledge of each of the
three traditions, tracing of historical relations among the
three monotheistic religions and analysis of personal
relations in the past and in the present.
The project intends to study and evaluate the current state of
research and interpretations as well as questions from the
fields of contemporary history, religiology, sociology etc.;
consult the existing material with and emphasis on what has so
far not been studied, and provide a critical analysis and
application of key concepts and theoretical paradigms of the
field, thus making an impact on further understanding of the
European cultural history development and contribute to the
very understanding of European Jewish, Christian and Muslim
tradition at the geographical location of northeast Adriatic.
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Project:
The
Understanding of the Identities of the Cultural World as a
Basis of the Humanitarian Study
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Applied Research Project
Project Manager:
dr.
Andrina TONKLI KOMEL, Ph.D.
Duration:
1.
1. 2003 – 31. 12. 2005
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The
proposed research The Understanding of the Identities of the
Cultural World as a Basis of the humanitarian Study integrate
a philosophical Analysis of cultural experience and a
constitution of humanitarian study. The focus of the research
is the relation between tradition and modernity, scientific
and artistic experience of culture, religious and personal
understanding of life, multicultural identity and tolerance.
This indicates basic complexity of the humanitarian study
today, possible methods of the research and a possibility of
the application of humanitarian knowledge in the pedagogical
process.
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Project:
Social Integrational Role of School
in the Areas of Cultural Contact and Social Cooperation in the
Case of the Slovene-Italian Border
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Target Oriented Research Project
Project Manager:
dr. Milan BUFON, Ph.D.
Duration:
20. 10. 2001 – 20.
10. 2004
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The project will examine some fundamental problems concerning education,
language communication and social interaction as factors of
human resources development and social cohesion in a specific
ethnically mixed border area under conditions of international
integration.
The objective of the project is to highlight various models of
communication and social interaction in kindergartens and
compulsory schools in the Slovene-Italian border area, with a
special emphasis on kindergartens and schools within
ethnically mixed environments in Slovenia and Italy, where
there are “majority schools” with the Slovene teaching
language and “minority schools” with the Italian teaching
language, on the one hand, and “majority schools” with the
Italian teaching language and “minority schools” with the
Slovene teaching language, on the other. The project will thus
examine various language communication models applied in
pedagogical process and school/parents relationships, as well
as broader aspects of social interaction between different
school structures and their respective social environments
involved in cultural, i.e. language contact, increasingly
interlaced interethnic relations and growing cross-border
integration.
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Project:
National and Cultural Identity in the Area of Slovene-Italian
Cultural Contact in European Integration Processes
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Target Oriented Research Project
Project Manager:
dr.
Mateja SEDMAK, Ph.D.
Duration:
20.
10. 2001 – 20. 10. 2003
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The principal objective of the project is to study the national and
cultural identity of Slovene Istria, with a special emphasis
on the issues of Slovenia’s integration in a united Europe
and world-wide globalisation trends, in order to obtain the
knowledge necessary to create an integral (local, regional and
national) development policy of national/cultural identity.
The newly gained knowledge based on the study of the Slovene
Istrian territory will be applied for the entire
Slovene-Italian border area, whereby the case study of Slovene
Istria should be understood as a model of the Slovene-Italian
cultural contact. In this framework, we shall focus our
attention on the discussion of the following four substantial
clusters:
- “Language and National Awareness, and Multicultural Identity of
Slovene Istria”,
- “Ethnically Mixed Marriages within the Context of National
(Auto-)Identification and Interethnic Proximity”,
- “Views on Slovene and Italian as Languages of Slovene Istria and
Views on Bilingualism within the Processes of Integration in
the United Europe”, and
- “Globalisation Processes and Processes of Integration in the United
Europe
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Project:
Identity and the ethnic structure of Slovene Istra
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Applied Research Project
Project Manager:
dr.
Mateja SEDMAK, Ph.D.
Duration:
1.
7. 2001 – 30. 6. 2004
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The
basic objective of the project is to study, in the
widest sense of the word, the ethnic complexity and
interethnic relations in Slovene Istra. A special
attention within this framework will be dedicated to the
ethnic awareness and its connectedness with linguistic
communicational capability in the first and second
languages (Slovene and Italian), as well as to the
location of the attitude towards one's own (and common)
ethnic identity in the members of ethnically mixed
families, where we shall also follow the accompanying
phenomena of "mixed conjugality", such as
split loyalties and the excluding identifications of
descendants of the ethnically mixed parents. Within the
framework of the study of ethnically mixed marriages or
families, the attitude of different ethnic groups
towards marital heterogamy of their members will be also
ascertained, as well as the degree of the interethnic
distance. The aim of the project is therefore to define
the complex nature of ethnic identity of the people
living in the dealt with area and of the multi-cultural
identity of Slovene Istra, to locate the degrees of
intergroup distance, the individual and group ethnic
identification and differentiation, as well as to
analyse the nature and structure of interethnic
relations.
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Project:
Basic criteria and
methods of the protection and sustainable planning of the
coastal region of Slovenia
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Applied Research Project
Project Manager:
dr.
Peter FISTER, Ph.D.
Duration:
1.
1. 1997 – 31. 12. 1999
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The
research evaluates the possibilities of a homogenous
sustainable development and protection of the coastal region
as a geographical, economical and cultural entity. With
detailed documentation, analysis and evaluation of the
existing plans and researches, which until now they have been
prepared and used rather confused, this material should be
directed in a new approach and use within the common
sustainable use of space, and at the same time the common
regional strategy and expertise should be elaborated. As the
postinformational system the common data base will be founded,
common monitoring of the space and common strategic planning
methods will be introduced, the expert services will be
connected and special experts will be employed. The final
result will be the ?Regional Agenda? as the stimulation for a
regional and sustainable use of space, for the connection of
the region with the neighbouring regions and countries, for
the specialization of experts. The research will be presented
to the public and to experts.
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Project:
The
function of border and ethnically mixed areas and the process
of cross-border integration in Slovenia - the case of the
Slovenian Istria
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Basic Research Project
Project Manager:
dr. Milan BUFON, Ph.D.
Duration:
1. 1.
1996 – 30. 6. 2001
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The
project aims to give both theoretical and methodological bases
for studying border landscapes and cultural contact areas,
explore past geopolitical developments and current social and
spatial aspects of the selected region and its relations with
the rest of Slovenia, neighbouring regions and other European
border areas. Research results will give the basis for
preparing some proposal of both content and method, concerning
the elaboration of common social development plans for the
studied cross-border Euro-region, and the maintenance of
cultural diversity in a perspective of international
integration.
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