General information
Code: P5-0181 Uršič
Period: 1.1.2020 - 31.12.2025
Range on year: 1.33 FTE | 2020
Project leader at FDV: prof.dr. Matjaž Uršič
External project leader: izr. prof. dr. Matjaž Uršič, Univerza v Ljubljani, Fakulteta za družbene vede
Co-financiers: ARIS
Research activity: Social sciences
Abstract
In the next period, the research programme will focus on analysing multi-level and integral sustainability, which includes the development of settlements, mobility, transport policy, migration, tourism, management of natural resources and human resource development. The research activities will be based on a unique tradition of researching spatio-environmental phenomena and human resource development that will yield an excellent combination of experience and knowledge for future research activities. We can divide the main research fields into five parts:
(1) Conceptually connecting the environmental and spatial concepts of socio-spatial development with the design of practical applications for strategic planning on various levels of territorial organisation (local, regional, national and supranational). We will draw on sociology’s capability as an inclusive, connective, and analytical scientific discipline to enable different science languages to be ‘translated’ for the purpose of making progress in the cross-disciplinarity of sustainability research.
(2) One research field will focus on researching the multi-directionality of communication between the subsystems while ensuring the tensions between the producers, planners, authority structures, and actual users of the space remain at a minimum. We will research the functional limits of including actors in spatial planning for it to still productively improve the quality of spatial interventions.
(3) Regarding sustainable urbanism, the goals are mostly connected to formulating a strategy for the first socio-spatial transformation of a sustainable neighbourhood in the CEE region, a region in which no larger sustainable settlements have so far been established. The result will be a tangible sustainable urbanistic strategy that includes innovative social perspectives on sustainable urbanism so as to improve the local inhabitants’ quality of life. (4) The goals of researching the ‘migrations–environment–digital’ junction call for an interconnected analysis of the local and global factors influencing the processes of diversified mobility. We will research the complexity of influences on migration movements (immigration and emigration) in Slovenia in light of EU policies on migrations and asylum that provide the crucial frameworks for integration practices on the local, national and European levels.
(5) The goals of human resource development are connected to the area of employability and graduates’ transition to the labour market. We are interested in the developmental dialectic between the concepts of employability and employment, and will thus follow the developmental context of the creation of ‘national modules for following graduate employability’ at home and abroad. In the area of the professionalisation of academic professions, we will research the challenges they face with regard to their institution, the wider institutional environment, and the professional networks.
The phases of the project and their realization
(1) Conceptual integration of environmental and spatial sustainable concepts of socio-spatial development with the design of practical applications for strategic planning at different levels of territorial organization (local, regional, national and supranational). We will start from the ability of sociology as an inclusive, connecting and analytical scientific discipline, which enables the "translatability" of different scientific languages with the aim of advancing the transdisciplinarity of sustainability research.
(2) One area of research will also focus on the study of the multidirectionality of communication between subsystems of spatial planning, in order to minimize tensions between producers, planners, authority structures and actual users of the space. We will investigate where are the functional limits of the involvement of stakeholders in spatial planning, so that it contributes productively to improving the quality of spatial interventions.
(3) The research goals in the field of sustainable urbanism are mainly related to the creation of a strategy for the first socio-spatial transformation of a sustainable neighborhood in the CEE region, where no major sustainable urban settlements have been implemented so far. The end result will be a concrete sustainable urban planning strategy that will include innovative social aspects of urbanism (settlement), which would improve the quality of life of the inhabitants.
(4) The objectives of the research on the intersection of "migration - environment - digitalisation" are aimed at the related treatment of local-global factors that influence the processes of diversified mobility. We will investigate the complexity of influences on migration movements in the Slovenian area in connection with EU policies in the field of migration and asylum, which crucially frame integration practices at the local, national and European levels.
(5) The objectives of the research on the development of human resources are linked to the field of study of employability or the transition of graduates from the sphere of education to the world of work, where we will be interested in the development dialectic between the concepts of employability and employment. We will monitor the development context of the creation of "national modules for monitoring the employability of graduates" here and internationally. In the field of studying the professionalization of the work of academic professions, we will study what challenges they face in relation to their institution, the wider institutional environment and professional networks.
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