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Social Sciences Research Institute

  • Development through research.

    We execute about 80 research projects annually, funded partly by the State and partly by contracts with other organizations or institutions.

News

How can we cool cities with lower emissions and ensure partial self-sufficiency in water and food?

The new project Resilient Green Urban Communities of the Future (ReGreenUrb) will develop complementary technological innovations that promote the sustainable transition of urban communities.

19. November 2025 | Research, Trajnostna FDV

Digital differences among older people: they use the internet, but each in their own way

The study examines how various factors shape older people's habits in using the internet, or avoiding it altogether.

17. November 2025 | Research

How can the European Union become more resilient to disinformation?

The European project Adria Digital Media Observatory (ADMO 2.0) will strengthen the European Union's efforts to combat disinformation through research, fact-checking, and media literacy programs.

7. November 2025 | Research

Assistant Professor Dr. Jasmina Šepetavc awarded prestigious ERC Starting Grant for QEAST project

Through an analysis of regional self-organised archives and festivals, the QEAST project sheds light on how queer communities have persistently developed their forms of memory activism and infrastructure, despite being erased from official histories.

4. September 2025 | Achievements, Research

The Social Sciences Research Institute is the largest research institute for Social Sciences in Slovenia. Research at the Institute is carried out within the framework of national and international research programmes. Intensive research is carried out within European Union research projects, but researchers and research centres are also involved in other international research.  

VICE-DEAN for Research: dr. Andreja Jaklič.

Catalogue of Research Centres of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana

 

National research projects

ERC TAP Aktiviranje in kuriranje kvir margin

Project leader at FDV: doc.dr. Jasmina Šepetavc | Duration: 1. January 2026 - 30. June 2026 | CPKR

Mlada raziskovalka Anja Jan

prof.dr. Valentina Hlebec | 1. November 2025 - 31. October 2029 | CJMMK

Šola Ustne zgodovine: razdeljeni spomin na drugo svetovno vojno na Slovenskem

prof.dr. Boštjan Udovič | 1. October 2025 - 31. December 2026 | CDEPŠ

Mlada raziskovalka Noemi Vegi

doc.dr. Jana Arbeiter | 1. October 2025 - 30. September 2029 | CDEPŠ

Mlada raziskovalka Čemas Nana

doc.dr. Jernej Kaluža | 1. October 2025 - 30. September 2029 | CDK

Mlada raziskovalka Vanesa Korže

prof.dr. Samo Uhan | 1. October 2025 - 30. September 2029 | CJMMK

Mlada raziskovalka Ana Kovač

izr.prof.dr. Marjan Smrke | 1. October 2025 - 30. September 2029 | CPKR

International research projects

EU Integration od the European youth policy into the higher education EU curriculum

prof.dr. Tomaž Deželan | 1. November 2025 - 31. October 2028 | CPR

EU More European Union through schools and connected libraries

prof.dr. Tomaž Deželan | 1. November 2025 - 31. October 2028 | CPR

Adria Digital Media Observatory 2.0.

prof.dr. Marko Milosavljević | 1. September 2025 - 29. February 2028 | CDTPR

Safer Internet Centre Slovenia 2025-2028

znan.sod.dr. Barbara Brečko | 1. September 2025 - 31. August 2028 | CDI

OUR VOICES

Project leader at FDV: prof.dr. Valentina Hlebec | Duration: 1. May 2025 - 30. April 2027 | CDB

EU BEYOND RAINBOW - Cooperation to explore youth intimacies through audio stories

doc.dr. Jernej Kaluža | 1. April 2025 - 28. February 2026 | CDK

EU LIFE4ADAPT Slovenia:s Strategic Integrated LIFE Project for Adaptation

izr.prof.dr. Andrej Lukšič | 1. February 2025 - 31. January 2032 | CPT