The research institute InnoRenew CoE and University of Primorska organized the InnoRenew CoE International Conference 2022, “Rethinking buildings and materials for a sustainable future”, which took place 17-18 November 2022, in the new InnoRenew CoE building in Izola, the largest wooden building In Slovenia. In the panel How to bridge the gap between research and […]
Author: dasa.majcen@innorenew.eu
In this framework, on 11th and 13th of October 2022, as a part of students’ visits to InnoRenew CoE, I presented to them the topic of sustainability, the role of renewable materials with an emphasis on the global carbon cycle and climate change mitigation. For high-school students, this was followed by an investigation of consumer […]
On the 9th of November 2022 I participated in the panel dicsussion at the UNI.MINDS Festival, the biggest Slovenian online festival which aims to build the innovation community and improve cooperation among academic and industrial stakeholders. With other Slovenian stakeholders, namely M-Sora, Marles, Raci, Chemistry Institute, Raci as well as Climate KIC, who moderated the […]
On 25th of October 2022, I attended an online seminar on Carbon accounting in the biomass sector organised by the The Imperial Network of Excellence in Sustainability through Life Cycle Approaches. The seminar touched upon the fundamental difference between the fossil and biogenic carbon cycles, which have been historically separated with Greenhouse Gas targets focused almost […]
On the 7th of October 2022, InnoRenew CoE hosted around 150 students from the first three grades of Livade Primary School. We showed them some of the laboratories and the experiments they can carry out there, including the acoustic laboratory, where the children were very impressed by anechoic room and its opposite, the reverberation room […]
On the 6th of October 2022, I attended the event entitled: “Challenges of processing and use of natural resources”. The main purpose of the event was to present the variety of sectoral development activities in the Slovenian forest and timber chain. Current developments in the field of processing and use of natural resources for circular […]
On the 30th of September 2022 I presented my research and the wider theme of environmental impacts of wood and its carbon footprint to the public (school children and international students) during the Marie-Curie funded Program European Researchers’ night. My presentation was part of the visits to the InnoRenew Centre of Excellence, where the visitors […]
On the 27th of September 2022 I took part in a workshop of the Horizon Europe CSA project BIOEAST in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The Central-Eastern European Initiative for Knowledge-based Agriculture, Aquaculture and Forestry in the Bioeconomy – BIOEAST – offers a common political commitment and is providing a shared strategic research and innovation framework for working […]
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Woodrise 2022, Portorož, Slovenia
The Woodrise 2022 congress, organised by InnoRenew CoE, was held in Bernardin on 6-7 September 2022 under the honorary patronage of the President of the Republic of Slovenia Borut Pahor. The poster describing the main objectives of MAXIWOOD Marie Curie Project was displayed at the congress. The statement of the keynote speakers Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, […]
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Conference LIFE IP Care4Climate 2022
On the 8th of June 2022 I attended Life IP Care4Climate International Conference with the theme ‘With successful practices to climate neutrality’. Presentations by renowned leading experts focused on sustainable mobility, green building transformation, sustainable and climate-friendly land use (LULUCF), sustainable construction and green public procurement. I participated in LAND USE, LAND-USE CHANGE AND FORESTY […]