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...

The beginning of the new academic year is approaching — on Wednesday, 1 October, our lecture halls will once again be filled with students.

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...

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...

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.

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.

Between 2 and 6 September 2025, Prof. DDr. Imre Fertő, Dr. Zoltan Bakucs and Dr. Lajos Baráth from ELTE, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute of Economics in Budapest visited the UP Faculty of Management in Koper within the framework of the bilateral cooperation project between the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU) in Ljubljana and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) in Budapest. They were continuing research activities with host Prof. Dr. Štefan Bojnec.

Before the start of the new academic year, UP will host Orientation Days on 29 and 30 September. The event is designed for degree-seeking international students as well as exchange students joining UP from partner institutions. Orientation Days offer a chance to meet fellow international students, discover the new academic and social environment, and connect with the people who will shape their study experience.