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January 31, 2026January 31, 2026

Challenges for Digital Citizenship and Ethics: Social Media, Deep Fakes, and Virtual Communities

Authors: Maja Pucelj (EMUNI University, Slovenia) and Rado Bohinc (EMUNI University, Piran, Slovenia) Release Date: October, 2024

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The integration of human rights, social responsibility, and technical innovation acquires significant importance in the current era of digital transformation. As technology rapidly evolves, it profoundly influences societal structures, economic systems, and individual lives. It is essential to examine the impact of digital transformation on human rights and social responsibility, and emphasize the importance of striking a balance that upholds individual rights while leveraging technological advances for the benefit of society as a whole.

Challenges for Digital Citizenship and Ethics: Social Media, Deep Fakes, and Virtual Communities analyzes the implications of digitalization on human rights and social responsibility. By adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this research combines perspectives from the fields of digital ethics, information technology, law, and social sciences. It examines the impact of digital technologies on privacy and data rights, assess the strategies utilized by corporations in the digital age to uphold human rights, and explore the policy and legal frameworks required to assure the ethical adoption of technology. Covering topics such as cybercrimes, digital literacy, and societal dynamics, this book is an excellent resource for policymakers, sociologists, researchers, academicians, educators, students, and more.

January 30, 2026January 30, 2026

University Articles

BOHINC, Rado, PRIMEC, Andreja and HRAST, Anita (eds.), 2023,

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Green and Digital Transition: Legal and Sustainability Issues : scientific conference [online]. Other monographs and other completed works. Koper : Znanstveno-razizkavalno središče Koper, Annales ZRS. [Accessed 30 January 2026]. ISBN 978-961-7195-22-4. Retrieved from: https://dirros.openscience.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=slv&id=17503

Bohinc, Rado (2023). Predlogi za prenovo organizacije in upravljanja javne zdravstvene dejavnosti. Podjetje in delo, letnik 49, številka 6/7, str. 906-921. URN:NBN:SI:doc-Y8CGNH6Q from http://www.dlib.si

January 30, 2026January 30, 2026

The Role of Higher Education in Shaping the Future of Euro–Southern Mediterranean Relations

Excellencies, distinguished guests, colleagues, students, dear friends of the Mediterranean,

It is a great honour to welcome you to the European Parliament for this high-level conference dedicated to the role of higher education in shaping the future of Euro–Southern Mediterranean relations.

A special welcome is extended to the representatives of the Ministry of Higher Education and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia; to Member of the European Parliament Vladimir Prebilič; to representatives of the European Commission and the Union for the Mediterranean; to representatives of European and Arab higher-education institutions; to rectors, professors, and researchers; and, in particular, to the students. Ultimately, every policy discussed at this conference is designed for them.

This conference takes place in Brussels, at the heart of European decision-making, with a clear and deliberate purpose: to affirm that education, research, and innovation are the strongest bridges that can be built across the Mediterranean. Education represents Europe’s most powerful form of soft power, and at a time of profound transformation and uncertainty, the Mediterranean requires this soft power more than ever.

The organisers wish to express sincere appreciation to the conference co-organisers: the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes, under the leadership of its President, Dr. Bousmina, and the Slovenian Business and Research Association, led by its President, Dr. Veselinovič.

1. A Turning Point for the Mediterranean

The Mediterranean region is characterised by one of the strongest demographic contrasts in the world. On its southern shores, a rapidly growing and increasingly educated youth population is emerging. On its northern shores, Europe faces demographic ageing and an acute need for talent.

This contrast carries both risk and opportunity. Without strategic cooperation, it may generate instability, unregulated migration, and social frustration. With courage, vision, and sustained cooperation, however, it can become one of the most significant opportunities for shared prosperity of the present generation.

At this critical juncture, higher education must not be viewed as a sectoral policy. It constitutes a geopolitical priority. Higher education shapes values, contributes to social stability, creates economic opportunity, and builds bridges in contexts where traditional diplomacy may encounter limitations.

2. Contributing to the Action Plan of the Pact for the Mediterranean

This conference is not a symbolic event. It is conceived as a working meeting of institutions that possess both the capacity to influence policy and the responsibility to deliver tangible outcomes.

The central objective is to contribute substantively to the development of a strong, realistic, and actionable Action Plan for the Pact for the Mediterranean. Participants are encouraged to propose concrete policy instruments and operational measures.

The discussions focus on:

strengthening university alliances across the Mediterranean;
ensuring that academic mobility becomes more inclusive and more equitable;
facilitating a transition from brain drain to brain circulation;
linking research and innovation more effectively to societal needs;
empowering youth and women as key agents of change;
establishing structured and mutually beneficial cooperation between Europe, the Southern Mediterranean, and the Gulf; and
in the longer term, building a Euro-Mediterranean Higher Education Area from the bottom up.

These objectives extend beyond universities alone. They form part of a broader project aimed at regional stability, economic development, and long-term peace.

3. Towards a New Chapter of the Barcelona Process

Nearly three decades ago, the Barcelona Process articulated a vision of partnership and shared development across the Mediterranean. Since then, the Barcelona Process and the Union for the Mediterranean have advanced political dialogue, economic cooperation, and cultural exchange.

However, higher education and research—despite their central role in developing skills, fostering mutual understanding, and expanding opportunity—remain underutilised instruments within this framework. The Mediterranean region requires a renewed chapter characterised by long-term, structured, and institutionalised cooperation.

The Pact for the Mediterranean should represent this next stage: an evolution of the Barcelona Process grounded in knowledge, people-to-people engagement, and institutional partnerships.

4. EMUNI University as a Living Pillar of Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation

The Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI) was established as a living pillar of this vision: a bridge built not of physical infrastructure, but of partnerships.

Its mission is to connect the Mediterranean through knowledge and to translate ideas into action. EMUNI brings together universities, researchers, and students from both shores of the Mediterranean, fostering alliances, joint programmes, and shared research initiatives. In doing so, it converts political ambition into practical academic cooperation.

EMUNI stands ready to strengthen its role as a potential entrusted partner of the European Commission in implementing the higher-education dimension of the Pact for the Mediterranean. With its networks, institutional experience, and regional presence, EMUNI is prepared to contribute actively to transforming the Pact into concrete outcomes.

5. Proposals to the European Commission

To ensure that today’s discussions lead to tangible results, two proposals are advanced.

First, a long-term institutional partnership between the European Commission and university networks such as EMUNI, EUROMED, UNIMED, and others is proposed. This partnership could be formalised through a Multiannual Framework Agreement for the period 2025–2032, providing stability, predictability, and strategic continuity beyond short-term project cycles.

Second, it is proposed that the European Commission formally entrust EMUNI and other networks with specific tasks related to the Pact for the Mediterranean. These tasks could include:

coordinating university alliances and institutional partnerships across the Mediterranean;
managing regional mobility schemes in both North–South and South–North directions, ensuring that mobility functions as opportunity rather than forced migration;
launching pilot research and innovation calls for Southern Mediterranean universities and research centres, with a focus on climate action, water management, digital transformation, renewable energy, entrepreneurship and employment, and societal and climate resilience.

Through such arrangements, Euro-Mediterranean university networks could serve as the European Union’s principal implementing platform for the development of a shared Euro-Mediterranean Knowledge Space.

6. A Message to University Partners

Universities constitute the core of this process. Their students, professors, researchers, and institutional creativity give substance to cooperation.

Universities are invited to join EMUNI in developing new alliances, joint study programmes, and shared research initiatives. Academic mobility should be understood not as migration, but as knowledge in motion—returning skills, partnerships, and mutual understanding that strengthen societies on both shores of the Mediterranean.

Collaboration in innovation, digitalisation, green technologies, and cultural dialogue can transform the Mediterranean into a laboratory for cooperation and sustainable growth. The recommendations emerging from this conference will contribute to the people-to-people dimension of the Action Plan guiding the Pact for the Mediterranean from 2026 onwards.

Conclusion

The Mediterranean has long been described as the place where continents meet. It should also be recognised as the place where knowledge meets—where talent circulates, research connects societies, alliances create opportunity, and education serves as a foundation for peace.

The Pact for the Mediterranean provides a strategic framework, but its success will depend on people: policymakers, researchers, professors, and students. EMUNI stands ready to contribute to this collective effort with ambition, responsibility, and partnership.

The next thirty years of Euro–Mediterranean cooperation can become a story defined by knowledge, innovation, and shared prosperity. The Mediterranean should not be perceived as a dividing sea, but as a common space of learning, creativity, and peace.

May 24, 2021May 24, 2021

Corporations and Partnerships in Slovenia, Second edition

Author: dr. Rado Bohinc, Published by: Kluwer Law International, 2020

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Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of the law of business formations in Slovenia provides quick and easy guidance on a variety of corporate and partnership considerations such as mergers, rights and duties of interested parties, stock exchange rules, labour laws, and takeovers. Lawyers who handle transnational business will appreciate the explanation of local variations in terminology and the distinctive concepts that determine practice and procedure.

A general introduction covering historical background, definitions, sources of law, and the effect of international private law is followed by a discussion of such aspects as types of formation, capital, shares, management, control, liquidation, mergers, takeovers, holding companies, subsidiaries, and taxation. Big companies, various types of smaller entities, and partnerships are all covered in turn. These details are presented in such a way that readers who are unfamiliar with specific terms and concepts in varying contexts will fully grasp their meaning and significance.

Thorough yet practical, this convenient volume puts the information necessary for corporations to compete effectively at the user’s fingertips. An important and practical tool for business executives and their legal counsel interested in engaging in an international partnership or embarking on corporate expansion, this book will prove a valuable time-saving tool for business and legal professionals alike. Lawyers representing parties with interests in Slovenia will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its value in the study of comparative business law.

October 23, 2019May 24, 2021

Media Law in Slovenia, Second edition

Author: dr. Rado Bohinc
Published by: Kluwer Law International, Alphen aan den Rijn cop. 2019

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Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this analysis of media law in Slovenia surveys the massively altered and enlarged legal landscape traditionally encompassed in laws pertaining to freedom of expression and regulation of communications. Everywhere, a shift from mass media to mass self-communication has put enormous pressure on traditional law models.

An introduction describing the main actors and salient aspects of media markets is followed by in-depth analyses of print media, radio and television broadcasting, the Internet, commercial communications, political advertising, concentration in media markets, and media regulation. Among the topics that arise for discussion are privacy, cultural policy, protection of minors, competition policy, access to digital gateways, protection of journalists’ sources, standardization and interoperability, and liability of intermediaries. Relevant case law is considered throughout, as are various ethical codes.

A clear, comprehensive overview of media legislation, case law, and doctrine, presented from the practitioner’s point of view, this book is a valuable time-saving resource for all concerned with media and communication freedom. Lawyers representing parties with interests in Slovenia will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its value in the study of comparative media law.

May 9, 2019May 9, 2019

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Insurance Law

Author: dr. Rado Bohinc, dr. Til Rozman, Founding editor: prof. dr. Roger Blanpain , General editor: prof. dr. F. Hendrickx Published by: Kluwer Law International B. V., 2019

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April 17, 2019April 19, 2019

Science, university articles

The aim of the research on this field is to examine the gap between the reality and both the recommendations and guidelines of various international (Bologna and EU) documents regarding the questions of university autonomy, and to propose solutions to ensure its greater autonomy within the national higher education system. First, the international higher education community’s guidelines and recommendations concerning various aspects of university autonomy is presented. Based on this review, the questions that relate to the constitutional and legal position of the university as an institution in Slovenia are identified. This is followed by an analysis of the legal framework, the legal status of public entities, and the university-state relationship while also presenting disparities from the constitutionally established autonomy of universities from different perspectives. The research findings reveal that the current university system as regulated by the Higher Education Act is inadequate. We therefore argue that truly establishing the constitutionally guaranteed autonomous university requires the higher education legislation to be amended in terms of modernising and improving the Slovenian higher education system (preparation and adoption of a particular university law).

The rectors’ conference of Slovenia launched an initiative to prepare a new draft law on the country’s universities. This step derives from the standpoint that universities are themselves responsible for creating a proper legal framework for their autonomous academic performance. A working group was formed to reflect the basic concepts and formulate a draft law. Among other issues, the draft law largely deals with issues concerning the corporate governance of the universities, including the relationship among university governing and academic organs and bodies, the position of the faculties as members of a university and the issue of student participation. Some unanswered questions relating to the extensive discussions that followed in the academic community regarding certain of the draft law’s solutions are presented in the papers.

Rado. Reti universitarie e ambiente interculturale. V: SADUN BORDONI, Gianluca (ur.). I Balcani e il Mediterraneo, (Collana di studi diplomatici, Storia, memorie, saggi, 30). Catanzaro: Rubbettino. 2010, str. 69-77. [COBISS.SI-ID 3834327]

BOHINC, Rado. University and corporate governance. V: JEŽOVNIK, Alen (ur.). Creativity, innovation and management : proceedings of the 10th international conference, (Management International Conference, ISSN 1854-4312). Koper: Faculty of Management. 2009, str. 1711-1725. [COBISS.SI-ID 3387863]

April 17, 2019April 20, 2019

Corporate governance articles

Responsibility is not just the ability to respond, but also the duty to react to the consequences of one’s behaviour. There are several types of responsibility, like e.g. moral and legal responsibility, which we can further classify to penal, and damage responsibility (liability). In the article on directors duties and responsibility different types of responsibility in private and public sector are analysed; directors’ (managers´) duties and responsibilities are compared to duties and responsibilities of managers of public agencies, public enterprises and of non-profit organisations. The conclusion of the comparative research is, that management duties and responsibilities should be legally governed and regulated according to the same principles, which is not yet the case in the legal order in Slovenia.

In the article on conflict of interests, the author presents analysis of the current Slovenian legislation covering the issue of conflict of interests, with brief comparative overview. It is estimated that the legislative framework of the conflict of interest related issues in Slovenia is weak and should be improved. The questions like prohibition of competition, duty of disclosure and approval to acquire shares for directors, incompatibility and disinterested position of the supervisory boards’ members, prohibition of board memberships for public officials, and other similar situations are analysed. The author concludes with proposals for legal amendments in this field.

In the field of corporate governance, author also deals with legal analysis of differences and similarities of corporate governance of the state owned enterprises and points out some peculiarities of the new legal framework of state financial investments in Slovenia. Author tries to answer the questions like what is the role of the state as an owner, do we have efficient regulatory framework for state owned enterprises, what are the relationships with the stakeholders and how does the regulation of transparency and disclosure look like. In addition there is a brief comparison of the implementation of the OECD Guidelines in the field of corporate governance of state owned enterprises.

The author also deals with questions of management compensation in Slovenia and describes European and Slovenian legislation and experience in the field of profit sharing. As part of their total compensation for work, members of the board are entitled to a salary, a profit share, reimbursement of expenses, insurance premiums, comissions, and other additional payments. However, the law in Slovenia prescribes the principle of proportionality of compensation to the actual tasks of board members and to the company’s financial state.

Author also deals with the forms of stockholders’ associations for the purpose of realisation of their voting rights. The author analyses legal relations towards proxies, professional proxies and discusses the question as to who can act as a professional proxy. Additionally, author presents views on the associations of stockholders within the frame of different types of agreements and contracts.

BOHINC, Rado. EU corporate governance, recent trends and developments, related to board composition and conflict of interests. V: VRANKIC, Ilko (ur.), KOZINA, Goran (ur.), KOVSCA, Vladimir (ur.). Economic and social development : 9th international scientific conference on economic and social development, Istanbul, 9-10 April 2015 : book of abstracts. Varazdin: Varazdin Development and Entrepreneurship Agency; Koprivnica: University North. 2015, str. 42-43. [COBISS.SI-ID 33302109]

BOHINC, Rado. Conflicts of directors’ interests with the interests of the company in the context of the financial and economic crisis (a comparative overview of some EU countries). V: BOHINC, Rado (ur.). Corporate governance as a tool for economic growth. Ljubljana: Fakulteta za družbene vede, Založba FDV. 2014, str. 167-191. [COBISS.SI-ID 33014109]

April 17, 2019May 6, 2019

Public governance articles

The research work reffered to the aspect of public administration reform in Slovenia, which included, in addition to the amendments of the constitution, also the Government Act, State Administration Act, Public Agencies Act, Inspections Act and Public Employees Act as well the new legislation in the field of local government, should therefore be accelerated and given the priority.

The reform, however, did not include only the legal (normative aspects, but also other fields (development of information technology, introduction of quality in the work of administrative bodies, establishment of the training system, simplification of administrative procedures etc.). Special attention was paid to the establishment and qualification of institutions for monitoring and implementing the legislation of the European Union (together with the plan of places of work, professional training of employees and provision of appropriate employment relationship).

Public sector in Slovenia (public institutions in the field of education, health care, social care, culture, research…), has been, from the point of view of property rights, organisation and governance, the same since in the year 1991, when the Law on public institutions passed in the Slovene Parliament, as one of the important reform laws. At that time, the property of ex self-management communities was “temporarily” nationalized (transferred to state and municipal ownership). Notwithstanding huge reforms in the private business sector, the public sector remains as it was when it was taken by the state (nationalized). A reform is needed in this field and the articles show the weak points of the existing approaches in corporate governance in the public sector and present the standpoints and guidelines for a corporate governance reform in public sector.

Public-private partnership is also researched; it is always a relationship between a public and private partner, where the state or local community as a public partner enters into a public-private partner relationship, granting the exercising rights and duties. The Public-private Partnership Act (2006) brought a series of novelties into the Slovenian company and public law. They are mainly the provisions concerning the status of public-private partnership (Articles 96 and following of the Public-private Partnership Act, transitory and final provisions, regulating status reorganisation of public companies, Article 141 and following). Status public-private partnership in a relationship between public and private partner, where contract based cooperation between partner also brings along changes to the status or proprietary structure of one of the partners. Status public-private partnership may therefore come to exist either by private investment into entities of public law (most frequently public undertakings) or by purchase or increase of capital shares. One of the important novelties concerns the changed regulation of the public undertaking capital. The new regulation prohibits investment of private capital into a public undertaking, which means that a public undertaking can no longer be a mixed-capital company. According to this changes, a public company may only be established and operate by public capital investments. The duty of the exclusion of public infrastructure from the property of public undertakings is regulated by Article 145 of the Public-private Partnership Act (transfer of basic capital), ruling that the capital of (public) infrastructure invested in the existing public companies as a material investment is to be deducted from the capital and transferred into the ownership of the Republic of Slovenia or a municipality.

Articles

BOHINC, Rado. Historical transformation of property rights in the context of new paradigm of human development. Acta Histriae, ISSN 1318-0185. [Tiskana izd.], 2013, letn. 21, št. 3, str. 427-448. http://zdjp.si/sl/acta.htm. [COBISS.SI-ID 2448851]

BOHINC, Rado. The judge’s tenure : a historical and contemporary overview. Acta Histriae, ISSN 1318-0185. [Tiskana izd.], 2014, letn. 22, št. 3, str. 791-808. [COBISS.SI-ID 33108829]

Author: dr. Rado Bohinc,The Human Aspects of Sustainable Development. ISBN: 978-961-295-083-5 (Fakulteta za družbne vede, Založba FDV)