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Monday, 13 November 2023 THE FIRST INNOVATION IN PIKA EVENT

The University of Primorska (UP), the Centre for Development and Knowledge Transfer (CRPZ UP FM) and the Municipality of Koper (MOK) organised the event "Innovation in pika" on World Science Day, Friday, 10 November 2023, with the aim of presenting the importance of innovation for research and development and raising questions on how to innovate and present the field of innovation in an innovative and appropriate way. The event brought together researchers from a wide range of fields at UP, the local community with a municipal perspective, and guests from business. This offered many opportunities for networking to develop new, common innovative ideas in the local, regional, and wider area.

     

The opening speeches of the Rector of UP, Prof. Dr. Klavdija Kutnar and the Mayor of the MOK, Mr. Ales Bržan, were followed by presentations of good practices by the guests of the meeting:

  • Strengthening university competitiveness: intellectual property management for researchers (Mr. Tadej Černivec, Director of IPRC, d.o.o.),
  • Presentation of the Centre for Development and Knowledge Transfer - CRPZ UP (Prof. Dr. Simona Kustec, Head of CRPZ),
  • Presentation of the Fortissimo project and the Slovenian company Invida, as the winning EU Entrepreneurial Innovation Project for 2023 (Mr. Blaž Gregorin, Director of INVIDA, d.o.o.)

The presentations were followed by a Round Table on different success stories of innovation at UP, where different representatives of UP members talked about the way they work and communicate innovation:

  • Living Laboratory for Cultural Heritage (Dr. Zrinka Mileusnić, UP FHŠ),
  • Device and process for attention management and quality interaction in two-way audio-communication platforms (Dr. Denis Trček), Project Think XR (Prof. Dr. Peter Štrukelj, Matevž Malej) (UP FM),
  • Scientific Slam (dr. Nino Bašić, UP Famnit),
  • UP PEF Ra-Ra Early Childhood Education Research and Development Unit (Dr. Sonja Rutar, UP Pef),
  • UP FTŠ sTUOdio Turistica - Student Studio for Sustainable Development and Innovation in Tourism (Dr. Dejan Križaj, UP FTŠ Turistica),
  • Ergonomic Stromma (Dr. Nejc Šarabon, UP FVZ),
  • Sustainable valorisation of olive leaves within the OLEAF4VALUE project (Dr. Jakub Sandak and Albert Kravos, UP IAM)

Afterward, the participants visited the exhibition of good practices, which is on display in the UP Armeria Hall.