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Thematic workshops for kids – Wood and climate change

Together with other InnoRenew CoE researchers we conducted thematic workshops for school kids in cooperation with SPIRIT Slovenia. Primary school students, age 11 to 13, learnt about wood use, climate change and the cross section of these two topics. In 6 sessions, which took place in autumn of 2024, either at InnoRenew or at the […]

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Conference presentation – InnoRenew CoE International Conference 2024

The research institute InnoRenew CoE and University of Primorska organized the InnoRenew CoE International Conference 2024, The conference took place 11-12 September 2024 in Izola, Slovenia, and provided a forum to explore renewable materials and their use for creating healthy, sustainable buildings during different thematic sessions. Researchers discussed emerging science and innovations in renewable materials that […]

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Workshop at the Autumn School for Slovenian Erasmus+ Contractors: Sustainability in Tertiary Education

In the framework of MAXIWOOD project, a workshop was delivered to 100 participants of the autumn school for Slovenian Erasmus+ on the topic of good practices of sustainability of higher education and how changes can make a lasting impact and improve the environmental footprint. Presentation was followed by an interactive workshops, where participants discussed sustainability […]

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Let’s empower (ourselves for) science! -European Researchers Night

28th of September 2024, InnoRenew CoE carried out European Researchers Night together with University of Primorska. Around 50 elementary school student visited in-house workshops, including an interactive presentation under the framework of MAXIWOOD Marie Curie Project. Children learned about myths and truths related to carbon on earth under the events theme of ‘oooZoscience! – Fake […]

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International Conference 2022 on buildings and materials for a sustainable future

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 […]

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Sustainability ambassadors: InnoRenew CoE’s workshop for talented high school and primary school students

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 […]