MA Diturije Ismaili (Head of Research Office)

» E-learning
» domestic violence
» trafficking on human beings
» treatment of prisoners
» perceptions of students about global political devolopments
» comparative analysis of water
» international law
» european law
» institutional reforms
» pollution of environment
» use of MP3 Podcasting in lectures
» marketing of the enterprises
» organized crime
» m-learning
» eInfrastructure at campus
» integrated bilingualism
» scientific review

Socio-economic sciences, IT, environment, languages

The main responsibility of the Research Office is to promote and support the research in all spheres through research projects which are funded by the University Research fund and other international funds. The ability to generate external funds to support research projects is a major criterion in allocating University funds.

Administrative support and assistance to the Faculty Research Directors is provided by the Research Office.
The quality of research projects is assessed first through submission of proposals according to a template based on formal Regulations which set out clearly the required criteria. There is then discussion of draft proposals in the Research Committee, followed by an iterative process of amendment, re-submission and approval, with regular monitoring of the successful proposals by the Research Office. Finally, researchers present their conclusions in a way which can readily be disseminated outside the University through conferences, publication of texts or the SEEU Review.

The publication of SEEU Review is also one of the activities of the Office. SEEU Review aims to provide an international forum for research, analysis, and debate from a broad range of fields, such as economics, law, public administration, education, language and linguistics, sociology and environmental health sciences. SEEU Review will accept the following types of articles for consideration: research, position papers, white papers, and reviews.

The publishing fund is also administered and managed by the Office for Research. Within the overall budget, each Faculty has a budget that is determined by the University Council together with a budget for cross-Faculty and University level publications.

- University is included in several international programmes both in US and Europe. Main projects where SEEU was involved were Tempus projects funded by European Commission.
- Also our University has been involved at an UNDP long-term project about strengthening evidence-based policy processes in FYROM.
- HELP (Higher Education Learning Programme), funded by US Embassy for four years was one of the projects which the Univesrity was involved in.
- Some of our academic staff individually are involved as well in FP7 projects.

2008-06-02 / 2010-04-14