University of Primorska

The University of Primorska, known in Slovene as Univerza na Primorskem and in Italian as Università del Litorale, is a public university seated in Koper on Slovenia's short Adriatic coast.普利莫斯卡大学（斯洛文尼亚语 Univerza na Primorskem，意大利语 Università del Litorale）是位于斯洛文尼亚亚得里亚海沿岸城市科佩尔的公立大学，其校名取自所在的沿海地区。

Founded in 2003, it is Slovenia's third public university and the only one based on the coast, with six faculties, a design college and the Andrej Marušič Institute spread across five towns.该校创办于 2003 年，是斯洛文尼亚第三所公立大学，也是唯一坐落在沿海地区的公立大学，下设六个学院、一所设计学院以及安德烈·马鲁希奇研究所，各单位分布在五座城镇。

The 2025 QS institutional profile records 6,089 students, 383 faculty members and 942 international students, while the university appears in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.2025 年 QS 校情资料显示，该校有 6,089 名学生、383 名教员和 942 名国际学生，学生规模刻意保持精简，大约每七名学生中就有一人来自国外；在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列第 1201-1400 位区间。

History

• The demand for a Slovene university in the Littoral predates independence by decades, and in 1992 an expert study mapped the development of higher education in the region.在沿海地区创办斯洛文尼亚语大学的主张早于国家独立数十年，1992 年一项专家研究系统梳理了该地区高等教育的发展路径与生源基础。当时沿海仍处于南斯拉夫边境地带，讲斯洛文尼亚语的学生只能前往卢布尔雅那求学。
• In 1993 a letter of intent was signed that envisaged a University Study Centre, the institutional embryo from which the university would later grow.1993 年，各方签署意向书，提出建立大学学习中心，这一机构后来成为大学成长的胚胎与组织雏形。
• The Slovene Science and Research Centre was founded in Koper in 1995 to concentrate the intellectual potential that a future university would need, and it supplied researchers, a library and doctoral supervision before the charter was drafted.1995 年，斯洛文尼亚科学与研究中心在科佩尔成立，旨在汇聚未来大学所需的智力资源与科研力量。在章程起草之前，该中心已经为未来的大学提供了研究人员、图书馆与博士指导能力。
• A year later, in 1996, the University Study Centre of Koper was established to coordinate teaching and prepare the legal basis for a university.一年后的 1996 年，科佩尔大学学习中心成立，负责协调教学并为创办大学准备法律基础与制度框架。
• In 1998 representatives of the regional economy and the chambers of commerce added their signatures to the letter of intent, tying the project to the local labour market.1998 年，地区经济界与商会的代表也在意向书上签字，使这一项目与本地劳动力市场和产业需求紧密相连。这些商会代表港口运营商、造船企业以及沿海服务业，使原本的学术计划获得了地区层面的推动力。
• For most of the twentieth century the Littoral had no Slovene university, and students travelled to Ljubljana University, founded in 1919, or to Maribor University, founded in 1975.在 20 世纪的大部分时间里，沿海地区没有斯洛文尼亚语大学，学生只能前往 1919 年建校的卢布尔雅那大学或 1975 年建校的马里博尔大学求学。
• Slovenia's declaration of independence in 1991 gave the coastal project a national dimension, because the new state wanted a university presence on its western border.1991 年斯洛文尼亚宣布独立，使沿海建校计划获得国家层面的意义，因为这个新生国家希望在其西部边境拥有一所大学。
• On 29 January 2003 the National Assembly passed the charter of the University of Primorska, ending a campaign that had lasted more than a decade.2003 年 1 月 29 日，国民议会通过普利莫斯卡大学章程，为这场持续十余年的建校运动画上句号。
• On 17 March 2003 the university was entered in the register of legal entities at the District Court of Koper, with three faculties, two colleges and two institutes.2003 年 3 月 17 日，该校在科佩尔地方法院的法律实体登记册中完成注册，当时拥有三个学院、两所高等专科学校和两个研究所，并由此获得独立授予学位的法人资格。
• The first academic year opened in October 2003 with the three founding faculties and two colleges, enrolling students in Koper and in the tourism college at Portorož.2003 年 10 月，首个学年开学，三个创始学院与两所高等专科学校在科佩尔及波尔托罗的旅游学院迎来首批学生。
• Lucija Čok, a linguist who had served as Slovenia's minister of education, became the founding rector and led the institution from 2003 to 2007.语言学家卢齐娅·乔克曾担任斯洛文尼亚教育部长，她出任首任校长，并在 2003 年至 2007 年间领导这所新大学。
• Slovenia's accession to the European Union in 2004 opened Erasmus exchanges and cross-border research funds to the young university, whose campus lies less than twenty kilometres from Italy.2004 年斯洛文尼亚加入欧洲联盟，为这所年轻大学打开了伊拉斯谟交换项目与跨境科研资金的大门，而该校校园距意大利边境不到二十公里。
• Rado Bohinc, a legal scholar and former minister of the interior, succeeded Čok as rector in 2007 and served until 2011.法学家、前内政部长拉多·博欣茨于 2007 年接替乔克出任校长，任职至 2011 年。
• The Andrej Marušič Institute was named after a psychiatrist and suicide researcher who died in 2008, and it became the university's interdisciplinary research arm.安德烈·马鲁希奇研究所得名于 2008 年去世的精神病学家与自杀研究学者，后来成为该校的跨学科研究机构。
• Dragan Marušič, a graph theorist, was rector from 2011 to 2019 and strengthened the university's mathematics and information technology profile.图论学者德拉甘·马鲁希奇在 2011 年至 2019 年担任校长，强化了该校在数学与信息技术领域的特色。
• Klavdija Kutnar, also a graph theorist, became rector in 2019 and has led the university through the post-pandemic period.同样研究图论的克拉夫迪娅·库特纳尔于 2019 年出任校长，带领学校走过疫情后的发展阶段。
• The Faculty of Tourism Studies in Portorož traces its origins to a tourism college opened in the seaside town in 1961, long before it joined the university.位于波尔托罗的旅游研究学院可追溯至 1961 年在该海滨城镇开办的旅游学院，其历史远早于并入普利莫斯卡大学。
• In 2023 the university marked its twentieth anniversary with six faculties, a college of design, a polymer technology faculty and the Andrej Marušič Institute, confirming its shift from a teaching college to a research institution.2023 年，该校迎来建校二十周年，此时已拥有六个学院、一所设计学院、一个聚合物技术学院以及安德烈·马鲁希奇研究所，标志着它从教学型院校成长为研究型大学。
• The Faculty of Management, seated in Koper, developed from a college of the founding period into a full faculty offering business and economics degrees.设在科佩尔的管理学院由建校初期的高等专科学校发展为开设商学与经济学学位的正式学院。
• In 2024 the university signed a cooperation agreement with Shandong Agricultural University in China, adding a Chinese partner to a network otherwise centred on Europe.2024 年，该校与中国山东农业大学签署合作协议，在以欧洲为主的合作网络中增添了一个中国伙伴。
• The sequence of rectors, from Čok through Bohinc and Marušič to Kutnar, reflects steady consolidation rather than radical reinvention.从乔克到博欣茨、马鲁希奇再到库特纳尔的校长更替，体现的是稳步整合而非激进的推倒重来。
• The founding statute recognised the Italian-speaking community of the coastal municipalities and allowed Italian to be used in university ceremonies and administrative documents.建校章程承认沿海市镇的意大利语社群，并允许在大学仪式与行政文件中使用意大利语。

Academics

• The university is organised into six faculties, a design college and the Andrej Marušič Institute, with the Primorska University Library serving all units.该校由六个学院、一所设计学院和安德烈·马鲁希奇研究所组成，普利莫斯卡大学图书馆为所有单位提供服务。
• Its faculties are Education, Humanities, Management, Mathematics and Natural Sciences with Information Technologies, Tourism Studies and Health Care.六个学院分别是教育学院、人文学院、管理学院、数学与自然科学及信息技术学院、旅游研究学院和医疗保健学院。
• The 2025 QS profile lists 6,089 students, 383 faculty members and 942 international students, a ratio of roughly sixteen students per teacher.2025 年 QS 资料列出 6,089 名学生、383 名教员和 942 名国际学生，师生比约为十六比一。
• Teaching spans education, humanities, social and behavioural sciences, business and administration, life sciences, mathematics and statistics, computing, tourism and health care.教学领域涵盖教育学、人文学科、社会与行为科学、工商管理、生命科学、数学与统计学、计算科学、旅游以及医疗保健。
• The Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, known as FAMNIT, concentrates mathematics, computer science, biology and sustainable development.数学、自然科学与信息技术学院简称 FAMNIT，集中发展数学、计算机科学、生物学与可持续发展研究。
• FAMNIT offers programmes in mathematics, computer science, bioinformatics and nature conservation, and its laboratories support work in chemistry, molecular biology and geographic information systems.FAMNIT 开设数学、计算机科学、生物信息学与自然保护等课程，其实验室支持化学、分子生物学与地理信息系统研究。
• The Andrej Marušič Institute conducts interdisciplinary projects in mathematics, information technology, psychology and the life sciences.安德烈·马鲁希奇研究所开展数学、信息技术、心理学与生命科学领域的跨学科项目，并参与博士培养。
• The Faculty of Management offers business administration, economics and management programmes in Koper, with a focus on entrepreneurship and public management, and its graduates frequently enter local government, tourism and the port economy.管理学院在科佩尔开设工商管理、经济学与管理学课程，重点方向为创业与公共管理，毕业生多进入地方政府、旅游业与港口经济部门。
• The Faculty of Tourism Studies Turistica in Portorož combines tourism, hospitality and destination management with the town's hotel industry, which supplies internships during the summer season.位于波尔托罗的图里斯蒂卡旅游研究学院将旅游、酒店管理与目的地管理同当地酒店业紧密结合，后者在夏季为学生的实习提供岗位。
• The Faculty of Health Care in Izola trains nurses, physiotherapists and applied kinesiologists, and arranges clinical placements in the coastal hospitals and clinics.位于伊佐拉的医疗保健学院培养护士、物理治疗师与应用运动机能学人才，并在沿海医院与诊所安排临床实习。
• The Faculty of Education prepares teachers and preschool educators, and its programmes include Italian-language components for the bilingual area.教育学院培养教师与幼儿教育工作者，其课程为双语地区设置了意大利语教学模块。
• The Faculty of Humanities covers archaeology, history, geography, cultural studies and language studies, including Slovene and Italian philology.人文学院涵盖考古学、历史学、地理学、文化研究与语言研究，包括斯洛文尼亚语与意大利语语文学。
• The Faculty of Polymer Technology in Slovenj Gradec, listed among the university's member faculties, specialises in plastics engineering and materials processing.位于斯洛文尼格拉代茨的聚合物技术学院被列为该校成员学院，专攻塑料工程与材料加工。
• The Design College in Ljubljana offers vocational degrees in visual communication, industrial design and fashion.位于卢布尔雅那的设计学院开设视觉传达、工业设计与时装设计等职业学位课程。
• Slovene is the main language of instruction, but the university also teaches in Italian and offers a growing number of English-taught courses at master's level.斯洛文尼亚语是主要教学语言，但学校也用意大利语授课，并在硕士阶段开设越来越多英语课程。
• Erasmus agreements and bilateral partnerships link the university to institutions across Europe, and cooperation with Chinese universities dates from 2019.伊拉斯谟协议与双边伙伴关系将该校与欧洲各地院校相连，而与中国的大学合作则始于 2019 年。
• Doctoral studies are organised by the faculties and the institute, covering mathematics, computer science, humanities, tourism and the health sciences.博士研究由各学院与研究所组织，覆盖数学、计算机科学、人文学科、旅游与健康科学。
• OpenAlex attributes 9,668 works and 162,233 citations to the university, modest in absolute terms but concentrated in mathematics, ecology and tourism.OpenAlex 为该校收录 9,668 篇成果、162,233 次引用，绝对数量不大，但集中于数学、生态学与旅游研究。
• All programmes follow the Bologna three-cycle structure, with three-year bachelor's degrees, two-year master's degrees and four-year doctoral studies.所有课程均遵循博洛尼亚进程的三级学位结构，包括三年制学士、两年制硕士与四年制博士研究。

Campus

• The rectorate occupies a historic building at Titov trg 4 in the old town of Koper, facing the main square and a few steps from the Praetorian Palace and the Cathedral of the Assumption.校长办公楼位于科佩尔老城铁托广场 4 号的一栋历史建筑内，面向主广场，距离执政官宫与圣母升天大教堂仅几步之遥。
• Teaching buildings are dispersed through Koper's centre, including the Faculty of Humanities near Titov trg and FAMNIT on Glagoljaška ulica, so students cross the old town between classes.教学建筑散布在科佩尔市中心，人文学院靠近铁托广场，FAMNIT 则位于格拉戈利亚什卡街，学生课间往往要穿过老城。
• The Faculty of Health Care is in Izola, a fishing town about ten kilometres south of Koper, where the faculty building stands between the marina and the general hospital.医疗保健学院位于科佩尔以南约十公里的渔港小镇伊佐拉，学院大楼坐落在游艇码头与综合医院之间，学生步行即可往返课堂与病房。
• The Faculty of Tourism Studies occupies a seafront site in Portorož, a resort town known for its spa hotels and marina, and looks across the bay towards Piran.旅游研究学院坐落在波尔托罗的海滨，这座度假小镇以温泉酒店与游艇码头闻名，校园隔湾可望见皮兰。
• The Design College is in Ljubljana, the capital, while the Faculty of Polymer Technology is in Slovenj Gradec in northern Slovenia, giving the university a presence beyond the coast.设计学院位于首都卢布尔雅那，聚合物技术学院则位于斯洛文尼亚北部的斯洛文尼格拉代茨，使该校的影响力延伸到沿海之外。
• Koper is Slovenia's only commercial port and lies about twenty kilometres from Trieste in Italy and one hundred kilometres from Ljubljana, the capital.科佩尔是斯洛文尼亚唯一的商业港口，距意大利的里雅斯特约二十公里，距首都卢布尔雅那约一百公里。
• The Primorska University Library provides study spaces and digital resources for all faculties, and its reading rooms double as a study hub during exam periods.普利莫斯卡大学图书馆为各学院提供学习空间与数字资源，其阅览室在考试期间还充当全校共享的自习中心。
• Student residences in Koper place most students within walking distance of the old town, the marina and the city beaches, and rents remain lower than in Ljubljana, so many share flats in nearby Izola or Ankaran.科佩尔的学生宿舍使大多数学生步行即可到达老城、游艇码头与城市海滩。当地租金低于卢布尔雅那，不少学生选择在伊佐拉或安卡兰合租。
• The Koper campus is compact enough that students walk between the rectorate, the humanities faculty and the library in under ten minutes, and cycling lanes connect it to the marina and the beaches.科佩尔校区十分紧凑，学生步行不到十分钟便可往返校长楼、人文学院与图书馆之间，自行车道则将校园与游艇码头和海滩相连。
• The old town's Venetian-era street grid connects the faculties, and the seafront promenade lies a short walk from the humanities building.老城威尼斯时期的街道格局将各学院连接起来，而从人文学院步行不远便是海滨长廊。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the University of Primorska is placed in the 1201-1400 band, alongside a large group of mid-sized regional universities.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，普利莫斯卡大学位列第 1201-1400 位区间，与一批中等规模的地区性大学同处一档，名次以区间而非单一数字公布。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the 1601-1800 band, a result shaped by its small research base and its limited citation record.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列入第 1601-1800 位区间，这一结果受其科研体量较小与引用记录有限的影响。
• U.S. News & World Report ranks it 2,095th in the 2026-2027 Best Global Universities, a position consistent with its publication volume and its young research profile.在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名中，该校位列第 2,095 位，这一名次与其论文体量和年轻的研究履历相符。
• The university did not enter the main table of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, whose indicators reward Nobel laureates, highly cited researchers and papers in Nature and Science.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，该榜单的指标偏重诺贝尔奖得主、高被引学者以及发表在《自然》与《科学》上的论文。
• The QS profile records 942 international students, about fifteen percent of the student body, a high share for a university founded in 2003.QS 资料记录该校有 942 名国际学生，约占学生总数的百分之十五，对一所 2003 年创办的大学而言比例颇高。
• OpenAlex counts 9,668 works and 162,233 citations, with citation impact concentrated in mathematics, biodiversity and tourism studies, a total below Ljubljana and Maribor but above most smaller Slovenian research institutes.OpenAlex 统计该校有 9,668 篇成果与 162,233 次引用，引用影响集中于数学、生物多样性与旅游研究，总量低于卢布尔雅那与马里博尔两所老牌大学。
• Primorska is the third public university in Slovenia, after Ljubljana in 1919 and Maribor in 1975, and one of four universities in the country.普利莫斯卡大学是斯洛文尼亚第三所公立大学，前两所分别是 1919 年建校的卢布尔雅那大学与 1975 年建校的马里博尔大学，全国现有四所大学。
• Its research strengths lie in graph theory and discrete mathematics, biodiversity and conservation, tourism and health sciences.该校的研究优势在于图论与离散数学、生物多样性与保护、旅游以及健康科学。
• Cross-border projects with Italian institutions, Interreg programmes and EU framework projects give the university an outsized regional role for its size.与意大利机构的跨境项目、Interreg 计划以及欧盟框架项目，使这所规模不大的大学在区域内发挥了超出体量的作用。
• The university is a member of the European University Association and cooperates with the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts on national research programmes.该校是欧洲大学协会成员，并在国家科研项目上与斯洛文尼亚科学与艺术院合作。这一成员身份意味着学校承诺遵守欧洲的院校治理、质量保障与学术自由标准。
• Research income comes mainly from projects of the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency, EU structural funds and cross-border Interreg programmes.科研经费主要来自斯洛文尼亚研究与创新署的项目、欧盟结构基金以及跨境 Interreg 计划。

Student life

• The university has no formal Latin motto, unlike Slovenia's older universities, and its identity is expressed instead through its name, its coastal location and its bilingual tradition.与斯洛文尼亚的老牌大学不同，该校没有正式的拉丁语校训，其身份更多通过校名、沿海位置与双语传统来表达。
• The Student Organisation of Primorska represents students, organises cultural, sporting and social events, and sends representatives to the university senate and faculty councils.普利莫斯卡学生组织代表学生利益，组织文化、体育与社交活动，并向大学评议会及各学院理事会派驻代表。
• Erasmus Student Network Koper welcomes exchange students with orientation weeks, language tandems and weekend trips to Ljubljana and Venice.科佩尔的伊拉斯谟学生网络以迎新周、语言互助以及前往卢布尔雅那和威尼斯的周末旅行欢迎交换生。
• Student residences in Koper house a large share of the student body, and private rooms are available in the old town and nearby villages.科佩尔的学生宿舍容纳了相当比例的学生，老城与附近村庄也有私人出租房间。
• The sea defines student life, with swimming, sailing and coastal running filling the long Mediterranean summer, when the pebbly beaches stay warm from June to September.大海塑造了学生的日常生活，游泳、帆船与海岸跑步填满了漫长的地中海夏季，卵石海滩从六月到九月都保持温暖。
• Koper's summer festival fills the old town's squares with concerts and theatre, and the Praetorian Palace hosts exhibitions throughout the year, mixing Slovenian and Italian performers.科佩尔夏季艺术节让老城广场充满音乐会与戏剧演出，执政官宫则全年举办展览，斯洛文尼亚与意大利艺术家同台献艺。
• The city's Italian-speaking community and its bilingual schools give the campus a cross-border culture rare in Slovenia.这座城市的意大利语社群与双语学校，为校园带来斯洛文尼亚少见的跨境文化。
• Local wine, olive oil and seafood shape the student diet, and the November Martinovanje festival marks the end of the grape harvest across the Istrian countryside.本地葡萄酒、橄榄油与海鲜构成学生的日常饮食，十一月的马丁节则标志着伊斯特拉乡村葡萄收获季的结束。
• The coastal location lets students reach Izola and Portorož by bus in under half an hour, so faculty events and beach life overlap.沿海位置使学生乘巴士不到半小时即可抵达伊佐拉与波尔托罗，学院活动与海滩生活因此相互交织。
• Koper's student population is small enough that the old town's cafes and squares function as an informal campus commons.科佩尔的学生群体规模不大，老城的咖啡馆与广场因此成为非正式的校园公共客厅。

Notable people

• Lucija Čok, the founding rector, combined a career in linguistics with public service as Slovenia's minister of education and later remained active in higher education policy.首任校长卢齐娅·乔克兼具语言学家与公共事务官员的双重身份，曾任斯洛文尼亚教育部长，卸任后仍活跃于高等教育政策领域。
• Rado Bohinc, rector from 2007 to 2011, was a legal scholar and a former minister of the interior of Slovenia.2007 年至 2011 年担任校长的拉多·博欣茨是法学家，也曾任斯洛文尼亚内政部长。
• Dragan Marušič, rector from 2011 to 2019, is known for his work on vertex-transitive graphs and Hamiltonian cycles, and he supervised doctoral students who now teach across Slovenia and Croatia.2011 年至 2019 年担任校长的德拉甘·马鲁希奇以顶点传递图与哈密顿圈研究著称，他培养的图论博士生如今在斯洛文尼亚与克罗地亚各地任教。
• Klavdija Kutnar, rector since 2019, is a graph theorist and the fourth rector in the university's short history.2019 年起担任校长的克拉夫迪娅·库特纳尔是图论学者，也是该校短暂历史上的第四任校长。
• Andrej Marušič, the psychiatrist whose name the research institute carries, studied suicide risk and mental health services before his death in 2008.研究所冠名的精神病学家安德烈·马鲁希奇在 2008 年去世前研究自杀风险与精神卫生服务。
• Katja Hrobat Virloget, an anthropologist at the Faculty of Humanities, researches memory, migration and identity in the Istrian borderlands.人文学院人类学家卡蒂娅·赫罗巴特·维尔洛盖特研究伊斯特拉边境地区的记忆、迁徙与身份认同。
• Ernest Ženko, a philosopher at the Faculty of Humanities, writes on the philosophy of culture and the social role of knowledge.人文学院哲学家埃内斯特·任科从事文化哲学与知识社会角色研究。
• The university's alumni network is still young, because the first cohorts completed their degrees only in the 2000s and most graduates remain in Slovenia or nearby Italy.该校校友网络仍很年轻，首批学生直到 2000 年代才完成学业，多数毕业生留在斯洛文尼亚或邻近的意大利工作。
• The wider Littoral heritage includes Giuseppe Tartini, the composer born in Piran in 1692, and Boris Pahor, the writer born in Trieste in 1913, both predating the university.更广阔的沿海地区文化遗产包括 1692 年生于皮兰的作曲家朱塞佩·塔尔蒂尼与 1913 年生于的里雅斯特的作家鲍里斯·帕霍尔，两人都早于这所大学。
• Srečko Kosovel, the poet from the Karst who died in 1926, and Srečko Vilhar, the librarian after whom Koper's central library is named, belong to the same regional tradition.1926 年去世的喀斯特诗人斯雷奇科·科索维尔，以及科佩尔中央图书馆以其命名的图书馆员斯雷奇科·维尔哈尔，同属这一地区传统。