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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]