What we propose?
4 core & 7 comprehensive
railway corridors in TEN-T
Director's story
A Don Quixote's
journey of railway &
cycling infrastructure development
Marko Savić, MA, MBA
I’m very grateful to the first founders and members of Mobilitatis Omni, who provided support to formalise this civic initiative into an institute. Alone, without the support of founders, members, colleagues, and friends, I wouldn’t be able to run this initiative, which is based on a rather crazy idea. To re-construct a railway border bridge—and other missing cross-border railway links—that was mined more than 75 years ago. Possibly, that is why the former board president of one of the first founders calls me a ‘Don Quixote’.
Make no mistake, we have a professional approach to our mission, but it is my responsibility to professionalise Mobilitatis Omni rather sooner than later. For the international railway corridors and cycling routes development, we need all the support possible. If you, as we do, think that it is unacceptable that Slovenia and its border regions have fewer railway lines in the 21st century than they had at the beginning of the 20th century, please, join and support us.
Alongside my professional career, I have managed to defend two Masters’ of Sciences, the former in Anthropology of Everyday Life at the AMEU Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis and the latter in General Management at the international master’s program of the University Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business. Currently, I’m a part-time Teacher of Economics at the International School of Gimnazija Bežigrad in Ljubljana.
Already after my first masters’ thesis defend I was asked if I will proceed to a doctoral study. At that time I categorically declined. My interests changed though and in autumn 2018—after several years of looking around for an appropriate option abroad and in Slovenia—I finally enrolled in the interdisciplinary doctoral program of the Ljubljana University Environmental Protection. That’s how I learned to never say never. My doctoral thesis will be a socio-technical analysis of, as you might have guessed, the rise and fall of the railways’ network in Slovenia and its neighborhood countries.
My affiliations:
- Gimnazija Bežigrad: Teacher of Economics.
- Faculty of Design: former Senior Lecturer in Design Management.
- University of Ljubljana: doctoral student at the interdisciplinary doctoral programme Environmental Protection.
- TV Volleyball live streaming and TV's anchor.
- Noli Oblivisci Me, Conference on Dementia: Conference Manager.