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Research Station ZRC SAZU in Nova Gorica

The Research Station ZRC SAZU in Nova Gorica is a dislocated unit of the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), which is considered the central scientific research institution in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and selected areas of natural sciences. The station was established in 2004 and hosts researchers from five institutes.

The Scientific Research Centre SAZU is a network of independent research groups, established by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts on 19 November 1981. In 1994, ZRC SAZU obtained the rights and duties of a public research institute. It comprises 18 institutes and has its own publishing house.

In 1987, ZRC SAZU first established in Nova Gorica a research unit of the Milko Kos Historical Institute, within which the historian Dr Branko Marušič worked. At the request of the heirs, the unit was joined by the library and archive of Dr Henrik Tuma, a Slovenian politician, publicist, and mountaineer. Dr Marušič carried out his work within the framework of the research tasks of the Historical Institute, while also taking care of the activities of the Slovenian community in Italy and local historical research among Italians in the Gorizia region and the Friulian area.

In addition to the Gorizia branch of the Trieste-based SLORI, which on the Slovenian side is the only institution primarily dedicated to research, Dr Marušič maintained contacts with the Institute for Religious and Social History (Istituto per la storia sociale e religiosa), the Institute for Central European Cultural Encounters (Istituto per incontri culturali mitteleuropei), and the Institute of International Sociology (Istituto di sociologia internazionale), and in the field of higher education with the Gorizia branches of the Universities of Trieste and Udine.

In 2004, the research unit expanded into the Research Station ZRC SAZU. Researchers work within individual institutes of ZRC SAZU on tasks related to the entire Slovene ethnic territory and beyond, and are also united by the joint research project The Western Slovene National Border in the Light of Changing Times. Due to its location, Nova Gorica is the most suitable place for in-depth research of the history, language, ethnology, bibliography, and art history of the Gorizia and wider Primorska region, which also includes Slovenes in the Gorizia and Udine provinces.

The station was also established in close connection with undergraduate studies in Slovene studies and cultural history at the University of Nova Gorica, Faculty of Humanities.

Although the central orientation of research is devoted to the fundamental study of life in the Primorska region in the past and present, researchers are aware that the acquired knowledge can also serve as a basis for shaping development strategies that promote sustainable development and strengthen regional and local identity. Therefore, they also direct their work towards applied projects and cooperation with various institutions across the Primorska region.

In their research work, they cross disciplinary and institutional boundaries, connect their research interests with the needs of the community, and realise them together in national, cross-border, and international projects. They publish their results in monographs, scientific and professional journals, digital collections, documentary films, and other printed and virtual media.

In this way, the work of the Research Station ZRC SAZU remains faithful to the vision on which the foundations of Nova Gorica rest – a vision of community, modernity, solidarity, and orientation towards the future.

Avtor: Jasna Fakin Bajec

Kraj: Nova Gorica

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