About

The Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences is an independent institution and the leading public institute in the field of social sciences in Croatia. The Institute has 106 employees working in Zagreb and eight regional centres from Dubrovnik to Vukovar and a lot of experiences in the European Research Area. The joint work of sociologists, psychologists, historians, demographers and other scientists in the Institute fosters a multi- and interdisciplinary approach to the research of wide-ranging social and humanistic phenomena from identity and cohesion to mobility and innovation. Our mission is a creation and dissemination of empirically generated and thematically diverse social and humanistic knowledge, participation in the European Research Area (H2020, Erasmus+, etc.) and other international cooperation and at the same time contribution to development processes in Croatia at the national and local level. Among the Institute's publishing activities, the most prominent is Društvena istraživanja, a journal that is indexed in Current Contents and other bibliographic databases.