The Institute for Civilization and Culture is a think tank, a non-governmental, non-profit, and non-partisan organization performing research and consultancy in the fields of civil society, culture, democracy, social science, and humanities. It was founded in 1997 as an independent research organization with the legal status of an independent institute for research, education, and counselling in social science and humanities. The Institute is listed in the register of research institutions at the Slovene Ministry of education, science and sport (registration number: 1636).
The Institute's research activities narrow down from the broad areas of civilization and culture to the social, civil, urban and cultural aspects of human existence (historical demographics; social stratification; migrations/transitional demographics; cultural policy, national-supernational, language issues, national education and science policies and their roles as constituting parts of the world development, social impact of new technologies and information society as such). In its seventh year of existence, with its expertise and working team, ICK has become an important thinktank in matters of media, cultural policies, democratic developments, transitions and EU integrations.
For the above reasons and because of the wide variety of research and other activities, the Institute requires flexibility in its staffing policy - research groups are thus formed according to the goals of individual tasks, which allows bringing in a lot of young collaborators, research assistants, senior and graduate students. Other extra-institutional collaborators come from similar domestic and foreign research organizations, with which permanent institutional contact has been established, or else specific contact is initiated for the purpose of an individual task.
Beethovnova 2
Prešernova 11
SLV-1000 Ljubjlana
Slovenia
Tel: 0038614250475
Fax: 0038614250360
E-mail: info@ick.si