THE MISSION

 We established our institute with the mission to contribute to getting over social alienation and stimulating the social integration of citizens, separate societies and groups in our country.

 Therefore we set ourselves the following tasks:

Monitoring of social vulnerability; studying the changes of value’s orientation; the processes of "social atomization" and stratification; the social and personal crises; the social esclusion and the social belonging in the contemporary Bulgarian society.

Studying the selfindentification of particular groups and communities; estimating their social significance.

Research of the development of socializing institutions; working up methods of exerting influence on them so that they cannont turn into factors of disintegration.

The role of representative government as a social integrating model – working up "good practice" and projects on its development.

Popularizing of successful social models and policies of social integration both in contemporary Bulgarian society and in the countries belonging to the European Union.

Working up projects and policies of assisting the processes of social integration which is successful fo people and communities;

 Our conception:

 As a country and a society in a period of transition we are in a situation of a change in the model of social integration. In this reference we intend to try to propound in the society our conceptions of the criteria, the standard and the model of social integration. Our own conception of the image of success, personal realization and community integration in the context of the European model- the way we see it.
 Some of the criterious aer well-known and they will not be a surprise- income, employment, health, education, realization, forms of social significance. We have the ambition to announce the Index of social vulnerability to the media and the Bulgarian society every year.
 We have already started working on one of our priorities- setting up Basic data about the institutions, organizations and structures of civil society that work on solving problems of social disintegration.

 Accents during the first two years:

social disintegration of people living in small towns and villages, in undeveloped regions of the country. Their real isolation from social processes, the decrease of their resources and potential

the transformation of education from socializing into a disintegrating factor- the lack of clearness, the poverty, the violence and the profanation in the contemporary Bulgarian education

vulnerability and disintegration of different youth groups, generation gaps

market disintegration of people who try to develop small and family business and services

the phenomenon of whole social systems and subsystems withdrawing into themselves

the concrete problems for the Bulgarian citizens and institutions that will arise in the process of Euroatlantic integration of the country