Senate

Area	Duties and powers
Study and research programmes	• Adopts study programmes. • Adopts programmes of research and development-operational work. • Approves the faculty’s annual work plan.
Academic staff	• Elects higher education teachers, researchers, and associates in accordance with ZViS and the faculty’s statute. • Submits proposals for new hires of academic staff. • Sets criteria for appointment to academic titles. • Decides on the revocation of academic titles.
Appointment procedures	• Appoints and dismisses the appointment committee. • Decides on appeals against the reports of the appointment committee (committee members are excluded from decision-making in these procedures).
Quality assurance	• Monitors the quality of educational and research work. • Reviews the opinions of the Faculty Student Council and decides within the scope of its powers.
Decision-making procedures	• Decides on student appeals in academic matters as a second-instance body. • If it decides as a first-instance body, it appoints an appeals committee.
Work organization	• Appoints committees and other working bodies of the senate. • Adopts the academic calendar. • Gives an opinion on the faculty’s financial plan.
Students’ final thesis	• Approves the topics of bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral theses. • Appoints and dismisses mentors, co-mentors, and defence committees. • Appoints committees to evaluate the topics of doctoral dissertations and assess the candidate’s qualificatio

Senate is the highest professional body of the ECM Faculty, which discusses and decides on all key issues in the field of education and research. Through its work, it ensures the quality, development, and alignment of the faculty’s academic environment.

The Senate shapes the faculty’s professional and strategic direction and ensures the realization of its vision and mission. Its decisions are based on academic excellence, freedom of research, ethics, and responsibility to society. By connecting teaching and research work, it creates the foundations for a dynamic, modern, and internationally comparable higher-education community.

Meeting schedule of the ECM Study Affairs Committees

Members of the ECM Faculty Senate

Senator
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dr. Barbara Toplak Perovič - President of the ECM Senate	management
Dist. Prof. Dr. Ludvik Toplak	university rector
Prof. Dr. Dr. Sebastjan Kristovič	psychology/educational sciences, vice-rector
Prof. Dr. Dr. Marjan Slak Rupnik	external member - EASA
Senior Lecturer Edvard Jakšič, MSc	nursing
Assist. Prof. Dr. Jernej Završnik (substitute members: Dr. Gregor Pivec, Dr. Tadej Strojnik)	medicine
Prof. Dr. David Bogataj (substitute member: Dr. Jana Goriup)	social gerontology
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Luka Martin Tomažič	communication studies, vice-rector
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Matej Mertik	computer science
Assist. Prof. Dr. Tine Kovačič (substitute member: Senior Lecturer Mladen Herc, MSc)	physiotherapy
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Miroslav Novak (substitute member: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Peter Pavel Klasinc)	archival science
Prof. Dr. Mladen Radujković	management
Lana Bratanič	student (female)
Nastja Smodiš	student
Urška Kunčič (substitute member: Samantha Majerič)	student (female)

ECM Faculty Committees

Study Affairs Committee for Health Programmes
Physiotherapy (FTH), Health Sciences (ZV)

Senior Lecturer Mladen Herc, MSc

Tatjana Horvat, MSc

Assist. Prof. Dr. Mateja Berčan

Assist. Prof. Dr. Patricija Goubar

Assist. Prof. Dr. Tine Kovačič

Nena Potisk, student (female)

Nastja Smodiš, student

Study Affairs Committee for Health Programmes
Nursing (ZN)

Senior Lecturer Edvard Jakšič, MSc

Senior Lecturer Šefik Salkunić

Lecturer Nataša Kreft

Alen Balažic, student

Study Affairs Committee for Health Programmes in a Foreign Language

Assist. Prof. Dr. Luka Šlosar

Lecturer Miloš Kalc

Dr. Nataša Štandeker

Alessandro Boscolo

Senior Lecturer Mladen Herc, MSc

Study Affairs Committee for Social Gerontology

Dist. Prof. Dr. Jana Goriup

Dr. Peter Seljak

Assist. Prof. Dr. Mateja Berčan

Gašper Lenart, student

Study Affairs Committee for Business Programmes

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Barbara Toplak Perović

Prof. Dr. Mladen Radujković

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Matej Mertik

Dr. Tanja Angleitner Sagadin

Nina Rechberger, student (female)

Study Affairs Committee for Archival Science

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Peter Pavel Klasinc

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Miroslav Novak

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zdenka Semlič Rajh

Irena Potočnik, student (female)

Appointments and Promotions Committee

Prof. Dr. Ludvik Toplak

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jernej Završnik

Prof. Dr. Sebastjan Kristovič

Nina Grabar, student (female)

Ethics Committee

Prof. Dr. Jelka Gorišek

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Barbara Toplak Perović

Assist. Prof. Dr. Gregor Pivec

Prof. Dr. Tadej Strojnik

Neja Grabar, student (female)

Disciplinary Committee (1st instance)

Prof. Dr. Sebastjan Kristovič

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Barbara Toplak Perovič

Samantha Majerič, student (female)

Disciplinary Committee (2nd instance)

Senior Lecturer Edvard Jakšič MSc

MSc Tomaž Klojčnik

Nina Rechberger, student (female)

Student Affairs Committee for Alma Mater in Vienna

Tatjana Horvat, MSc

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Barbara Toplak Perovič

Prof. Dr. Jurij Toplak

Ainhoa Lizzaritury

Area	Duties and powers
Study and research programmes	• Adopts study programmes. • Adopts programmes of research and development-operational work. • Approves the faculty’s annual work plan.
Academic staff	• Elects higher education teachers, researchers, and associates in accordance with ZViS and the faculty’s statute. • Submits proposals for new hires of academic staff. • Sets criteria for appointment to academic titles. • Decides on the revocation of academic titles.
Appointment procedures	• Appoints and dismisses the appointment committee. • Decides on appeals against the reports of the appointment committee (committee members are excluded from decision-making in these procedures).
Quality assurance	• Monitors the quality of educational and research work. • Reviews the opinions of the Faculty Student Council and decides within the scope of its powers.
Decision-making procedures	• Decides on student appeals in academic matters as a second-instance body. • If it decides as a first-instance body, it appoints an appeals committee.
Work organization	• Appoints committees and other working bodies of the senate. • Adopts the academic calendar. • Gives an opinion on the faculty’s financial plan.
Students’ final thesis	• Approves the topics of bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral theses. • Appoints and dismisses mentors, co-mentors, and defence committees. • Appoints committees to evaluate the topics of doctoral dissertations and assess the candidate’s qualificatio

Senate

Key duties of the Senate of the ECM Faculty

Senate is the highest professional body of the ECM Faculty, which discusses and decides on all key issues in the field of education and research. Through its work, it ensures the quality, development, and alignment of the faculty’s academic environment.

Key duties of the Senate of the ECM Faculty