This paper aims to examine the links between university-industry collaboration (UIC) predictors (inputs) and the results of UIC cooperation (outputs). The focus of the research is UIC within the European Union member states and the Western Balkan countries. The analysis was conducted using the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). This method enabled examining the links between variables that are not directly observable. The authors used data for the period of three years, 2015–2018. The results prove that countries investing in UIC predictors (inputs) have better UIC performance (outputs). Based on the statistical analysis, the authors identified the investments in knowledge, networking, and research and development (R&D), in general, as the most significant that impact UIC performance.

The traditional approach in public transport planning was to collect travel demand data for a more extended period and compose timetables to serve this demand. There are two significant identifiable issues. In the rural areas and off-peak hours, public transport operators provide much more capacities than needed. On the other hand, more capacities than scheduled are needed on certain lines at certain departures on some sporadically occurring occasions. The problem is how to react to short-term changes (daily) triggered by exceptional circumstances and events and midterm changes (weekly, monthly basis) in travel demand. We can trigger changes in travel demand chiefly by introducing a desirable (almost for free) tariff system applied to specific populations. No long-term travel response data exists for this kind of intervention, but an immediate response in public transport supply is needed. In Slovenia, public transport for free for the whole population over 65 years was introduced. With the modern ticketing system, which was designed to be as simple as possible for users (that means »check-in only« at the moment of boarding), the research task was to analyze the travel behavior of the retired population, faced with a new attractive option to travel, based on data of purchased tickets and their afterward validation, for better mid-and long-term planning. Our study finds that ITS technology (in this case, e-ticketing system) can satisfactorily solve the discussed planning and management task.

In this paper the authors present the tracking and monitoring of Slovenian guest workers, who were temporarily living and working in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970s, by the State Security Service. By analysing archival material of the Slovenian political police about the activities and associations of Slovenes in the Federal Republic of Germany, which is kept by the Archive of the Republic of Slovenia and using a selection of scientific works of domestic and foreign historiography, the authors present the process of emigration from the Socialist Republic of Slovenia to the Federal Republic of Germany from a west German and Yugoslav perspective. They also present how the State Security Service tracked Slovenian guest workers in the FRG during the 1970s and which groups of emigrees it paid special attention to. Here the authors concentrate on the tracking of Slovenian emigree clergy and emigree press, both groups having had large cultural influence on other Slovenian guest workers while they lived and worked in the Federal Republic of Germany.

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V prispevku je obravnavana zgodovina slovenske etnične župnije presvetega Srca Jezusovega v Barbertonu, Ohio, ki so jo ustanovili tam živeči člani slovenske priseljenske skupnosti. Prispevek temelji na izčrpnem arhivskem gradivu clevelandske škofije in na znanstveni literaturi. Slovenska priseljenska skupnost v mestu Barberton, Ohio, je postala konec drugega desetletja 20. stoletja številčno in finančno dovolj močna, da je lahko podprla ustanovitev etnične župnije. V 85-letni zgodovini te barbertonske župnije je tamkajšnjim faranom uspelo zgraditi tri cerkve in župnijsko šolo, v župniji pa se je izmenjalo dvanajst duhovnikov; od tega jih je imelo enajst slovenske korenine. Župnija je bila skupaj s tamkajšnjim slovenskim narodnim domom središče slovenske narodnostne in kulturne dejavnosti v mestu. Z njeno pomočjo se je slovensko-ameriška skupnost v mestu obdržala do današnjih dni. Zaradi spremenjenih razmer – amerikanizacija potomcev tretje in četrte generacije – je župnija presvetega Srca Jezusovega začela izgubljati etnično naravo, v začetku 21. stoletja pa je ob združitvi s tamkajšnjo poljsko etnično župnijo prenehala obstajati. Takšno usodo posameznih etničnih župnij lahko zasledimo tudi v nekaterih drugih do sedaj raziskanih slovenskih naselbinah v ZDA.