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New publication of the institute associates

Darka Podmenik, PhD, external associate at the IRSA institute and Maruša Gorišek, young researcher, published an article in the journal Research in Social Change titled Is youth unemployment in EU countries structural?

Geopolitical, socio-economic and cultural aspects of Covid-19

The following contribution was written during the research on socio-economic, geopolitical and cultural aspects of the current pandemic.

Why is Eastern (Central) Europe less affected by the pandemic?

Dr. Frane Adam published a new book

Dr. Frane Adam published a new book at the Institute for developmental and strategic analysis, titled

Between meritocracy and populism

On the cacophony of data in the postfactual society

(Second, edited edition)

Workshop on (highly educated) youth unemployment

Institute IRSA organized a workshop titled: Long-term unemplyoment of (higher educated) young people - an indicator of social crisis?

The even was prepared and moderated by dr. Darka Podmenik, external associate of IRSA

IRSA workshop

In the time from November, 28. to November 30, the workshop for the members of program and project gruop at iRSA took place in Ljubljana. The main topic was Globalisation and Meritocracy, with the accent on four cases China, Sweden, Romania and Slovenia, a detailed workshop program can be viewed here.

Current

1. Research project: Meritocracy and the knowledge society: between simulation and reality

Time frame: 2019-2021

Funded by: Slovenian Research Agency

Program group leader: Frane Adam PhD ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Program members (in 2020): Igor Bahovec, PhD, Hans Westlund, PhD, Tea Golob, PhD, Petra Kleindienst, PhD, Mateja Rek, PhD, Maruša Gorišek

2. Public order: Qualitative research on pension gap between men and women

Funded by: Ministry of work, family, social affairs and equal opportunities in the framework of the European project My Work.My Pension

Cooperating: Frane Adam, PhD, Igor Bahovec, PhD, Darka Podmenik, PhD, Emanuela Kristan, Maruša Gorišek, Dane Podmenik

3. Research programme: Socio-cultural and organisational aspects of knowledge and technology transfer

Time frame: 2015 - 2020

Funded by: Slovenian Research Agency

Program group leader: Frane Adam PhD ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Program members (in 2020): Igor Bahovec PhD, Hans Westlund PhD, Angela Ivančič PhD, Matej Makarovič, PhD, Victor Cepoi, PhD, Maruša Gorišek and Dane Podmenik.