University of Nova Gorica

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University of Nova Gorica - UNG (Slovene: Univerza v Novi Gorici), is the fourth university in Slovenia. The University of Nova Gorica grew out of the School of Environmental Sciences founded in 1995 by the urban municipality of Nova Gorica and the Jožef Stefan Institute. Later two more institutions joined as the founders: the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and... Arts and the municipality of Ajdovščina. In March 2006, the former Nova Gorica Polytechnic was renamed the University of Nova Gorica. Today the University has 7 schools and 9 research institutes.
The University of Nova Gorica participates in international cooperation with similar institutions around the world. It takes special care to promote multidisciplinary research and programmes designed to build partnerships between industry and academia, with the hope of creating a better society both at local and global levels.
UNG is a private university institution. The status enables the university a flexible organisation and modes of activities, and an easier adjustment to the demands of modern society.
UNG is a university with strong internal organisational links. Research and expert work is done in laboratories, centres and institutes. The University’s faculties are open educational and teaching units with researchers and experts coming from diverse research departments and external institutions. In the coming years UNG will aim to establish a harmonious link between experts and students from diverse research and professional disciplines. At the same time, the University will aim to transfer its entire activity to one place, i.e., one campus.
Also, common student and staff services operate on the level of university. The University’s operation aims to be more in line with that of a modern enterprise rather than that of a traditional academic institution.
At the University, research and expert work forms a basis for carrying out studying programmes. The University’s researchers should strongly aim to enter and participate in international research processes and projects.
Our researchers and teachers are expected to be highly educated scientists and experts with international experience. Candidates for full time employment are expected to have done their postdoctoral education abroad. UNG aims to be a high quality higher education institution with a competitive advantage in an international context.
Our university teachers can only be researchers or experts with a wider, i.e. international acclaim. The teaching and learning work with students should include research and practical work as much as possible both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Hence UNG will aim to have an optimal student – teacher ratio in all its study programmes as well as an optimal research – teaching ratio. In the long-term, all disciplines are expected to achieve a 1:1 research – teaching ratio.
The University will try to ensure a continual involvement of experts from the fields of economy and industry in the educational process.
A special care will be devoted to international links as well as to student and teacher exchange programmes. A choice of the language of study will be adapted to this aim, especially at the postgraduate level.
Notwithstanding its international trends, UNG will ensure to develop a specific research and teaching activity aiming to strongly support the position of Slovenes on their western state border.
The University of Nova Gorica aims to be a research, internationally established university, which will be recognised as a driving force of social development in the region and in a wider context. With its innovative teaching approaches in both Slovene and English, the university aims to develop teaching excellence at its contemporary study programmes, thereby securing a high level of employability to home and international students.
The university will endorse its motto Scientia vinces(“with knowledge to victory”) by providing a creative environment for researchers, professors and students, thereby enabling opportunities for top achievement results in the cutting-edge fields of science, technology and art.