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Research visit to the University of Pula

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...

Together, we step into the new academic year 2025/2026.

With the beginning of October, the new academic year 2025/2026 has also started, bringing new opportunities for more than 750 students, including many new faces – freshmen, who officially joined our Faculty of Management at the University of Primorska in the first week of October.

Trainings on Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Do you have an innovative idea but aren’t sure how to bring it to life? Would you like to learn about sustainable entrepreneurship, gain practical skills, and receive mentorship from experienced experts? Do you also want to connect with international participants who share your goals? Today’s environmental and social challenges require more than just good ideas—they demand entrepreneurial action grounded in sustainable values. That is why the University of Primorska, University of Alicante, University of...

AGRIGEP Annual Meeting and AGRIGEP Final Conference in Prague

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...

HAED-DAES 2025 Conference in Osijek

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...

Additional ERASMUS+ (KA131) Call for Applications for the Academic Year 2025/26

We would like to inform students that an additional ERASMUS+ (KA131) call for applications for study in the second semester of the 2025/26 academic year has been published on the UP website. The deadline for applications is Monday, October 6, 2025. Applications are submitted via ŠIS (please use the version of ŠIS in Slovenian, available on the UP FM website). In the section PRIJAVA NA IZMENJAVO, using the filter conditions (i.e., by selecting the academic year 2025/26, the desired country of mobility, and...

Annual Conference of the Slovak Economic Association

This year's annual conference of the Slovak Economic Association – Slovak Economic Association Meeting (SEAM 2025) – was organized in cooperation with the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, in Nitra, on 11 and 12 September 2025: https://slovakecon.sk/seam2025/program.html. The conference was attended by Prof. Dr. Štefan Bojnec, who co-organized the special session Food Security and Sustainability. He presented the paper Risk of Food Security Shocks and participated in the presentation of the paper...

Research visit of Prof. Dr. Štefan Bojnec and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sergej Gričar to the Kingdom of Norway

Prof. Dr. Štefan Bojnec UP FM and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sergej Gričar UNM were on a research visit to the Kingdom of Norway between 6 and 10 September 2025. During this time, they via Oslo visited the partner institution Faculty of Business, Languages and Social Sciences, Østfold University College on the Halden campus and the university campus in Fredrikstad.

International Collaboration Aimed at Developing Innovation and Entrepreneurial Initiatives

Representatives of the Faculty of Management at the University of Primorska, Prof. Dr. Armand Faganel, Vice-Dean for Public Relations and Quality Assurance, and Prof. Dr. Simona Kustec, Head of the Center for Knowledge Development and Transfer at FM and former Minister of Education of the Republic of Slovenia, visited the Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varaždin.

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