The University of Primorska has nine members: five faculties, one college, two research institutes and a student residence:

FAKULTETA ZA HUMANISTIČNE ŠTUDIJE KOPER
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES KOPER
Titov trg 5, 6000 Koper
Tel: +386 5 663 77 40
Fax: +386 5 663 77 42
e-mail: info@fhs.upr.si
website: www.fhs.upr.si
Dean: Prof. Vesna Mikolič

FAKULTETA ZA MATEMATIKO, NARAVOSLOVJE IN
INFORMACIJSKE TEHNOLOGIJE
FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS, NATURAL SCIENCES
AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
Glagoljaška ulica 8, 6000 Koper
Tel.: +386 5 611 75 70
Fax: +386 5 611 75 71
website: www.famnit.upr.si
e-mail: info@famnit.upr.si
Dean: Prof. Dragan Marušič

FAKULTETA ZA MANAGEMENT KOPER
FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT KOPER
Cankarjeva ulica 5, 6000 Koper
Tel.: +386 5 610 20 00
Fax: +386 5 610 20 15
website: www.fm-kp.si
e-mail: info@fm-kp.si

PEDAGOŠKA FAKULTETA KOPER
FACULTY OF EDUCATION KOPER
Cankarjeva ulica 5, 6000 Koper
Tel.: +386 5 663 12 60
Fax: +386 5 663 12 68
website: www.pef.upr.si
e-mail: info@pef.upr.si
Dean: Prof. Mara Cotič

FAKULTETA ZA TURISTIČNE ŠTUDIJE PORTOROŽ
– TURISTICA
FACULTY OF TOURISM STUDIES PORTOROŽ- TURISTICA
Obala 11a, 6320 Portorož
Tel.: +386 5 617 70 21
Fax: +386 5 617 70 20
website: www.turistica.upr.si
e-mail: info@turistica.upr.si
Dean: Prof. Aleksandra Brezovec

VISOKA ŠOLA ZA ZDRAVSTVO IZOLA
COLLEGE OF HEALTH CARE IZOLA
Polje 42,6310 Izola
Tel.: +386 5 662 64 60
Fax: +386 5 662 64 80
website: www.vszi.upr.si
e-mail: info@vszi.upr.si
Dean: Prof. Nadja Plazar

ZNANSTVENO RAZISKOVALNO SREDIŠČE KOPER
SCIENCE AND RESEARCH CENTRE OF KOPER
Garibaldijeva 1, 6000 Koper
Tel.: +386 5 663 77 00
Fax: +386 5 663 77 10
website: www.zrs.upr.si
e-mail: info@zrs.upr.si
Director: Prof. Darko Darovec

PRIMORSKI INŠTITUT ZA NARAVOSLOVNE IN
TEHNIČNE VEDE
PRIMORSKA INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES
AND TECHNOLOGY
Muzejski trg 2, 6000 Koper
Tel.: +386 5 611 75 91
Fax: +386 5 611 75 92
website: www.pint.upr.si
e-mail: pint@upr.si
Director: Prof. Andrej Brodnik

ŠTUDENTSKI DOMOVI
STUDENT RESIDENCES
Santorijeva ulica 7, 6000 Koper
Tel.: +386 5 611 75 07
Fax: +386 5 611 75 31
e-mail: info@sd.upr.si
website: www.sd.upr.si
Director: Leon Horvatič

University of Primorska strives to become a centre of excellence in knowledge formation and transmission, it aims for equal and partner cooperation in enriching academic and social sphere of the Mediterranean and beyond. To fulfill its purpose, the University of Primorska must attempt to support its credibility and autonomy with appropriate strategic goals, which will enable a long-term inclusive development policy. For that reason, a new mid-term plan is in preparation and is expected to be adopted by the Senate of UP by the end of 2008. The new mid-term plan for the following 5 years will present a joint responsibility, characterized by seven major objectives and a proper methodology. The University is making every effort to become a centre of excellence in knowledge formation and transmission. It aspires to creatively contribute to advances of knowledge-based society. This aspiration is founded on the following values:

• quality,
• autonomy,
• freedom,
• commitment,
• openness.
  

These values carry the strategic goals for the future:

• to become a constitutive part of the national structure of knowledge with excellence in learning and teaching;
• to become a referential university for the Mediterranean geographical area and South Eastern Europe;
• to establish an effective model of asymmetrically integrated university;
• to become an excellent research institution;
• to become a recognized factor in local development;
• to become a recognized university in Slovenia, the Mediterranean and broader environment;
• to achieve the material standards, comparable
• to University of Ljubljana and to University of Maribor.
  

The common and/or all-encompassing objective of the agreed guidelines is a position among the 1000 world-class Universities, according to Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities, by 2013.

This mission is challenging, but realistically attainable. The University will monitor the progress continually by keeping an eye on results in all areas and especially by monitoring the markers of quality. The new mid-term plan will be undertaken as a common obligation for the future of our University.

The University of Primorska’s quest for excellence requires:

• development of education for economy and local community projects;
• development of shared or interdisciplinary postgraduate programmes in addition to disciplinary oriented specialist and master’s programmes;
• development of special study- and research-oriented units or Centres within the University’s Postgraduate School;
• development of the central University library;
• development of scientific journal(s) and University publishing house;
• development of student and academic mobility as well as e-studies;
• development of the University Centre for International Cooperation;
• formation of Quality Monitoring Board of UP in 2009 for monitoring the quality of study and education processes and their accordance with the ascertained markers of quality.

Therefore, the UP adopted a series of legal acts, regulating the study field in the academic year 2007/08:

• Students with Special Needs of UP Rule;
• Execution of Student Surveys of UP Rule;
• Erasmus Mobility Rule of UP;
• Scholarship Fund of UP Rule;
• Preparation and Defense of Doctoral
• Dissertation Amendment Rule;
• Guidelines for Implementation of Study
• Programmes in Foreign Languages;
• Guidelines for Reforming Study Progammes and for the Procedure of Forwarding Information on Adjustments of Study Programmes Implementation;
• Guidelines for Part-time Study Implementation at UP;
• Guidelines of UP for Courses with Consultations;
• Guidelines for Preparation and Implementation Procedures of Study Programmes, Formed and/or Implemented by Different Members of UP;
• Guidelines of UP for Preparation of Shared Study Programmes with International and Local Universities;
• Guidelines for Procedures of Discussion and Adoption of Study Programmes at UP;
• Guidelines for Procedures of Discussion and Adoption of Study Programmes at UP Amendment Rule.

University of Primorska has drastically enhanced the effectiveness of study programmes implementation and has for that reason established a special permanent working body of the Senate. Detection of certain irregularities in application and enrolment procedures as well as in procedures of switching between study programmes represents another motivation for this decision.

How Bologna Process is being implemented at University of Primorska

All members of UP will start the academic year 2009/10 with reformed and new Bologna programmes in all three cycles of higher education. Higher Education Act determined that the process of Bologna reform should be finalized by academic year 2009/10. The Council for Higher Education of the Republic of Slovenia has confirmed 45 University of Primorska’s Bologna programmes up until 2008. At University of Primorska we began implementation of the following study programmes in academic year 2008/09:

• academic study programme (1st cycle) Media Studies (UP Faculty of Humanities Koper),
• academic study programme (1st cycle) Mediterranean Agriculture and Biodiversity (UP FAMNIT),
• master study programme (2nd cycle) Nursing Care (UP College of Health Care Izola).

The transformation of Turistica – College of Tourism into Faculty of Tourism Studies Portorož – Turistica.

In the forthcoming years the University will aspire to extend its educational activities in the subject areas of technical programmes
and natural sciences, especially in renewable energy, materials and healthcare. For that reason new programmes from the subject area of natural sciences are in the process of accreditation, such as Civil Engineering and Urbanism and Mechatronic and Adaptronic Systems and Technologies. The two programmes will be available in the academic year 2009/10. Resolutions on founding a new Faculty of Urbanism and Civil Engineering as well as the University Library have already been adopted. A series of interdisciplinary study programmes, which involve virtually all members of the University, are in preparation. The planned interdisciplinary programmes are:

• Management of Sustainable Development (2nd cycle),
• Cross Cultural Studies (2nd cycle),
• International Studies (2nd cycle),
• Management of Heritage in Tourism (1st, 2nd and 3rd cycle),
• Mechatronic and Adaptronic Systems and Technologies (1st and 2nd cycle).