Social Infrastructure
Course type
Study programme and level
Language
slovenščina
Lectures | Seminar | Tutorial | Druge oblike študija | Individual Work | ECTS |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
30 | 6 |
Prerequisites
No special requirements.
Content (Syllabus outline)
– Institutions and their built environment,
– Social systems and social infrastructure,
– Definition of social infrastructure,
– Assets of social infrastructure:
-Schools,
-Kindergartens,
-Affordable housing,
-Hospitals,
-Community health centers,
-Assisted living facilities and retirement communities,
-Nursing homes,
-Logistics for ageing cohorts,
-Prisons,
-other public buildings,
– The role of social infrastructure,
– Demand for social infrastructure as function of demographic changes and economic development,
-Valuing development impact: Social and private value
-Investments in social infrastructure:
-infrastructure as an asset,
-legal framework for investments,
-valuation of investments and financial flows,
-risk management,
-local, regional and government investments,
– investments of private entities,
-Public-Public investments,
-PPP in social infrastructure investments.
Objectives and competences
The course has the following specific objectives and assure the following competences to those who will pass the exam:
To broaden the educational base of law/economics/finance graduates in two directions: to establish and deepen students’ knowledge and understanding of some of the defining characteristics of social infrastructure; and to raise their awareness of the range of practical perspectives relevant to the funding of long-term investments in social infrastructure.
To provide an opportunity for graduates of infrastructure delivery related subjects (e.g. engineering and other numerate disciplines) to specialise in the study of social infrastructure investment and finance.
The philosophy behind the cours is that the study of social infrastructure investment and finance involves the application to infrastructure delivery of general principles from financial theory, microeconomics and macroeconomics . At the same time the course will demonstrate ways of exploring and analysing the peculiarities of the social infrastructure investment and finance industry, focusing on powerful analytic tools in general disciplines and adapting them to the infrastructure context.
The course aims to provide a rigorous and theoretically informed approach to the study of social infrastructure investment and finance that will serve the students throughout their subsequent career. The programme will equip them either for practice in the infrastructure ownership, finance and project management industries or (for the best students) for academic careers.
Intended learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding:
To be prepared and equiped for the transition into social infrastructure investment careers, and develop the knowledge and capabilities that professionals need for practice in this field.
To be focus on powerful analytic tools in general disciplines and able to adapting them to the social infrastructure context.
Last but not least the cours will shape students capable of building and extending the multidisciplinary research base on social infrastructure. To that end, the student will have the knowledge and understanding needed to serve as a foundation for further PhD research.
Learning and teaching methods
Lectures
Literature review and instructructions
Support at writing a paper.
Assessment
-homeworks 30%
-written project 40%
-presentation (20 min) 30%