Dr. Barbara Švagan attended the 8th Conference of the International Network on Digital Labor (INDL-8), held at the University of Bologna from September 10 to 12, 2025. At the conference, she presented a poster titled The Role of Income Dependence on the Health and Safety of Food Delivery Couriers, prepared in collaboration with Dr. Suzana Laporšek.

After visiting Novo Mesto in June and Koper in September 2025 by Croatian researchers, we met again in Pula, Croatian Istria, in the last week of September, as part of a bilateral project between the Juraj Dobrila University in Pula, FET, the University of Primorska FM and the University of Novo Mesto FPUV. Before the start of the academic year, we reviewed the achievements to date and the challenges for the future. We agreed on a close and lasting cooperation between institutions with intensive research...

The Horizon AGRIGEP project Annual Meeting was held on 23rd and 24th September 2025 at the Czech University of Life Sciences (CZU) in Prague, and the Horizon AGRIGEP project Final Conference was held on 25th September 2025 at the CZU in Prague. These two hybrid events – in live and online – brought together researchers, institutional leaders, policymakers, and gender equality practitioners to share knowledge and experiences related to the design and implementation of Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) in the...

The conference of the Croatian and Slovenian Association of Agricultural Economists HAED-DAES 2025, The Role of Agricultural Economic and Sustainable Transformation of Agri-Food Systems in Central and South-East Europe, was held at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek (UNIOS) in Croatia on 18 and 19 September 2025: https://haeddaes.fazos.hr/program/ . At the conference, Prof. Dr. Štefan Bojnec from UP FM presented a joint paper with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Patricia Blatnik entitled Inclusiveness and...

On May 8, 2025, the BRIDGE Conference took place at the Faculty of Management of the University of Primorska, focusing on connecting research, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the era of green and digital transition. The event, led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jasna Auer Antončič, began with an opening address by Vice-Dean Asst. Prof. Dr. Borut Kodrič, who emphasized the importance of collaboration between academia and the business world.

At UP FM in Koper, mag. Klaudia Tomasik from the Krakow University of Economics (Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie) in Kraków, Poland, is on an exchange program within the CEEPUS framework, where she is preparing her doctoral dissertation.

Mag. Klaudia Tomasik is currently spending three weeks at the University of Primorska in Koper, where she is intensively working on her doctoral thesis. Under the watchful eye of Prof. Štefan Bojnec, she is developing her research and gaining new perspectives in an...

The third annual meeting of KRPAN Consortium partners with the exchange of good practices took place on 20 March 2025 at the Rectorate of the University of Maribor. Prof. Dr. Štefan Bojnec participated in the event, namely in a panel discussion entitled: Gender equality and inclusion, challenges and opportunities in the Horizon Europe programme.

On Thursday, 13 February 2025, the first consultation of the Horizon AGRIGEP project regarding activity T5.2 was held at UP FM. The project has entered its third and final year of implementation, which is focused on the gender equality plan (NES1.0) with the aim of preparing a new one (NES2.0)....

Today, February 6. 2025, the 1st regular meeting of the Consortium of University Offices for Enhancing Knowledge Transfer Capacity (UNIK@TT) took place at the Rectorate of the University of Primorska, hosted by the Center for Development and Knowledge Transfer of the University of Primorska, Faculty of Management (CRPZ UP FM).

Congratulations to Sr. Instr. Martina Kovačič (UP PEF and UP FM), who was appointed European Climate Ambassador on January 8, 2025 by the European Climate Pact, an initiative of the European Commission and the European Green Deal, a strategy to achieve climate neutrality in Europe by 2050. The initiative aims to involve citizens and organizations more effectively in considering, finding and implementing sustainable solutions.