Assistant Professor
Fakuleta Za Uporabne Družbene Študije
Nova Gorica, Slovenia
The School of Advanced Social Studies in Nova Gorica (SASS) was established as an independent private higher education institution on 15 June 2006.In 2007, the teaching process started at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In the academic year 2007/08, SASS began implementing full-time study programmes, namely the undergraduate study programme Advanced Social Studies, which is renamed into (academic) study programme Social Management, and the master’s study programme Intercultural Management. In 2008, the School obtained accreditation for a doctoral programme of Sociology, thus vertically completing the system of study programmes, i.e. at the postgraduate, master’s and doctoral levels.A year later, we started creating an additional vertical line vertical in the field of social management, where we obtained accreditation for the undergraduate (BA) study programme and a master’s study programme titled Social Management (currently inactive). In the academic year 2012/13, bachelor of arts study programme and master’s study programme Psychosocial Counselling were added to the existing programmes.n their productive research work, our research staff and higher education teachers with high orientation towards applicability (in accordance with the name of the School) address issues that are extremely important from both the economic and the wider social point of view. Social problems and challenges never cease and never run out.Functioning of democratic societies, rule of law, knowledge society, migrations, cultural diversity, discrimination, stereotyping, poverty, hunger, unemployment, right to work, harassment, mobbing, sexual harassment, domestic violence, abuse, online safety, addictions, environmental pollution, health management and healthcare … are just a few examples from the long list of challenges that modern people and societies are facing. The School has been awarded the title of Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence.
