Research

Current research

Public Policy during the Crisis: Reforms and Decision-making Process.
1/2018 – 12/2019 - Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy. DIRPOLIS Institute (Institute of Law, Politics and Development).

The Development of Slovenian Business in Italy.
1/2018 – 12/2019 - SLORI Slovene Research Institute, Trieste, Italy.

Past research

Post Crisis Social Dialogue – Best and Innovative Practices in the EU-28.
5/2015 – 12/2016 - International Labour Organization - Industrial and Employment Relations Department, Geneva, Switzerland, and ILO International Training Centre, Turin, Italy.

Pensions in the European Union: An Overhauled Institutional Configuration.
6–12/2016 - Programme ‘Reforming the Welfare State Institutions’ at the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark, Odense.


Portability of Supplementary Pension Rights in Europe.
6–12/2014 - Programme ‘Reforming the Welfare State Institutions’ at the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark, Odense.

Promoting a Balanced and Inclusive Recovery from Crisis in Europe through Sound Industrial Relations and Social Dialogue. Stock Taking Exercise: Best Practices of Social Dialogue and Crisis Recovery in New EU Member States.
4–12/2012 - International Labour Organization - Industrial and Employment Relations Department, Geneva, Switzerland, and ILO International Training Centre, Turin, Italy.

The New Pension Mix: Supplementary Schemes in Europe. Chapters on Poland and the EU influence on pensions.
3–9/2011 - Observatoire social européen and European Trade Union Institute, Brussels, Belgium. 

Tender ‘Scope of the co-ordination system in the pension field’ (VT/2010/104) won and co-ordinated by the Observatoire social européen.
12/2010 – 6/2011 - European Commission - Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities DG, EMPL/E.3, Brussels, Belgium.

Research project: ILO Survey on Social Dialogue and Pension Reform in Times of Crisis and Beyond. Case study: Slovenia.
11/2010 – 1/2011 - International Labour Organization - Industrial and Employment Relations Department and Social Security Department, Geneva, Switzerland.

Welfare States in Transition. The Development of the Welfare States of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Macedonia, after the disintegration of Yugoslavia up to present date. Slovenian Social Policy in a Consensual Political System: The Dilemmas of a Delayed Transition.
3/2010 – 10/2010 - Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Call: 

Towards a Multi-Level Social Citizenship Space? Dilemmas and Perspectives of Social Europe. Research projects for Prof. Maurizio Ferrera: pan-European pension funds and the Fonds de Pensions Nestlé OFP.
7/2009 – 1/2010 - Università degli Studi di Milano – Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Milan, Italy. Programma di ricerca scientifica di rilevante interesse nazionale (PRIN), Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca 11/2008 – 10/2009 

ERSTE Foundation Social Research Fellowship “Generations in Dialogue”.
1-9/2009 - Research project: Distributive Recalibration and Pension Reforms in Eastern Europe: The Uncertain Future of Socially Endangered Groups. 

Projet de recherché, 1er août 2009 – 31 juillet 2009, Réponse à l’appel d’offre «Assurer un pension adéquat dans un contexte européen» du SPF Sécurité Sociale. 
10/2009 – 9/2010 - Observatoire social européen, Brussels, Belgium. 

EU Social Policies – Monitoring and Analysis: Private Pensions.
10/2009 – 9/2010 - Observatoire social européen, Brussels, Belgium.