Target Oriented Research Project
Project promoter: dr. Jože Pirjevec, Science and Research Centre of Koper (University of Primorska)
Project performer: Science and Research Centre of Koper (University of Primorska), Slori-Slovene Research Institute
Project implementation period: 2006-2008
The aim of this markedly interdisciplinary project, which is to involve lawyers, historians, sociologists, geographers and other experts, is a scientific analysis of the degree of protection of the Slovene minority in Italy since the passing of the so called protection law no. 38, in 2001, till the present day. The protection of the Slovene minority in Italy , in fact, continues to be an unresolved issue. Since 1866, when the first Slovenes (from Venetian Slovenia) came under the rule of the Italian state, the Italian governments and state institutions have been pursuing a policy which, rather than protecting the Slovenes as a minority, subjected them to discrimination.
Based on the historical context, the project will study the present status of protection of the Slovene minority from the legal, political and social points of view, with the aim of offering concrete expert and developmental solutions for the actualisation of such protection. In the analyses of the status and in the solutions proposed the research activities will be taking place in the framework of several problem groups, which will determine the mode of research and work in the field. The results of the projects are published in the volume Pre-misliti manjšino. [Zv. 1], Pogledi reprezentativnih predstavnikov Slovencev v Italiji in pravno-politični okvir edited by the Science and Research Centre of Koper (University of Primorska) and Slori-Slovene Research Institute.