The university in figures

The University of Ljubljana concluded 2015 with positive results, including on the business front. A large challenge in the coming year will be the continued concerns of equipment updates, cost and liquidity management and provision of funds for quality programme implementation.

FINANCE

In 2015, the total revenues of the University of Ljubljana amounted to €289,755,884, which is a 1.8 percent decrease compared to the previous year. The drop in revenues is largely the result of reduced funds for pedagogical and research activities, both from budget as well as non-budget sources, and a drop in revenues from market sources at certain University members. The drop in revenues was partly compensated for by the growth of revenues from European budget funds.

TOTAL REVENUE IN € MILLION

TOTAL EXPENSES IN € MILLION

The University adjusted to the decreased revenues primarily by applying cost management measures. Total expenses in 2015 amounted to €282,443,321 and decreased by 1.7 percent compared to the year before. The largest drop (3.1 percent) was recorded in labour costs, which account for the largest share in the cost structure (66 percent). Hence, the University concluded 2015 with a profit of €6,838,035, nearly half (49.3 percent) of which was generated by market activities. The profit was largely intended for investments in equipment and provision and development of activities (81.9 percent). The remaining share was left undistributed.

REVENUE BREAKDOWN BY SOURCE ON CASH BASIS

Reduced funds result in reduced material standards in the provision of the University’s basic activity and a in a constant trend of increasing the depreciation rate of equipment. Despite major investment projects in the past four years, such as the new construction of the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology and the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, the reconstruction and new construction of the Faculty of Medicine and the energy efficiency improvements at the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Economics, the depreciation rate has been growing constantly and amounted to 86 percent in 2015 (84 percent in 2014). In 2015, we earmarked €18,748,853 for investments in real estate and equipment (€50,216,516 in 2014), where €13,389,577 was allotted for equipment, still 36.8 percent less than in 2014.

The University of Ljubljana concluded 2015 with positive results, including on the business front. A great challenge in the coming year will be the continued concerns of equipment updates, cost and liquidity management and provision of funds for quality programme implementation.

In Human resources system operations in 2015, special attention was placed on the preparation of documents to establish a modern information system to improve operations related to safety, data accuracy and the efficiency of report and plan preparation.

MIHAELA BAUMAN PODOJSTERŠEK,
Secretary General

Human resources

In Human resource system operations in 2015, special attention was placed on the preparation of documents to establish a modern information system to improve operations related to safety, data accuracy and efficiency of report and plan preparation.

In 2015, 469 employees were included in formal education and 1507 employees were included in informal education. Informal education mostly included conferences, summer schools, professional courses, seminars and symposia. In the past year, 22 professors (11 professors in 2014) were on sabbatical leave.

A long-standing need for training both teaching and non-teaching staff was reflected in high attendance and waiting lines for the training carried out within the scope of the University of Ljubljana Quality (KUL) project. Despite the completion of the project, the University has continued to provide similar joint training courses. In the second half of 2015, we carried out five one-day workshops on reverse learning, two workshops for public performance skills in English, a workshop for public performance skills in Slovenian, an evaluation workshop for quality studies and a teamwork workshop for more active studies.

Several workshops of the sort are being prepared, including a workshop to support strategic planning and operations, as ever more University members have expressed the need for such knowledge.