University of Ljubljana
Tomaž Čater received his bachelor, master and doctoral degrees in 1998, 2000 and 2003, all in the field of management and organization from the School of Economics and Business University of Ljubljana. He has been employed at the same faculty since 1998, initially as an assistant, then as an assistant professor and associate professor, and from 2014 as a full professor of management. His past and present positions at the faculty include head of Distance Education, head of the Department of Management and Organization, and head of the Master Program in Sport Management. External to the faculty he was a member of the management board of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) and the president of the Slovenian Academy of Management (SAM).
His main fields of research, teaching and consulting are competitive advantages of firms, strategic management, corporate social and environmental responsibility, and sport management. He has also worked as a visiting professor at universities in Indiana (USA), Chemnitz and Regensburg (Germany), and Dubai (UAE), among others. He is the author or co-author of 60 scientific articles in journals, including the award-winning article in the prestigious journal Organizational Research Methods. As an advisor he has also consulted numerous companies such as Domel, Elektro Gorenjska, Petrol, Voka Snaga, Zavarovalnica Triglav and many others.
Mojca Maher Pirc is EU Project Manager and Deputy Director for International Relations at the University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business, Slovenia. She has over 19 years of experience in international higher education in the field of business and economics. Initially she was involved in student and staff mobility and the Ljubljana Summer School Take the Best from East and West as a programme manager (the number of participants increased to more than 500 students and 30 international professors from more than 50 countries worldwide).
Since 2013, she has been appointed as Deputy Director for International Relations. Her responsibilities also include managing various Erasmus+ partnership projects with universities worldwide. The projects promote internationalisation, support student and academic staff mobility, foster research, inter- and intra-university collaboration, cultural awareness and/or collaboration with the business environment. Mojca holds a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and a Master’s degree in Business Administration. Since 2016, Mojca has been a member of the European Association for International Education (EAIE) Steering Group, Expert Community Business Education.
Klavdija Besednjak is a project assistant at the International Relations Office, University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business. She has more than 10 years of experience in project management.
She has been involved in several Erasmus+ and Erasmus Mundus mobility projects with partner universities worldwide and short-term mobility projects. She is currently working also as a project manager for students, academics and professional staff mobility.