News

Interview with Frane Adam in Reporter

This article is available only in Slovenian.

Program group assembly meeting in Bled

IRSA had organised a program group assembly meeting in Bled which took place between 20 and 22 April in the Park hotel.

Invited guest speakers were from Slovenia and abroad, including Matevž Tomšič, PhD (SASS) and Victor Cepoi, PhD (SASS/FIS).

The program topics were populism, nationalism, globalisation (with the special focus on the role of China), social innovation

and its indicators. The presentations are available here.

Citizen Science Pilot Experiment in High Schools

Frane Adam published a new article in the online peer-reviewed academic journal IIASS (Innovative Issues and Approaches in Social Sciences)

entitled Citizen Science Pilot Experiment in High School. The basis of the article is recent research done in 5 grammar schools in Ljubljana. The article is available here.

General Assembly meeting for STEM4YOUTH project

IRSA participated on the 5th general assembly meeting of the STEM4YOUTH project (Horizon 2020) in Cantabria. The meeting took place on 7 and 8 June 2018.

Round Table: What kind of state do we wish for?

IRSA's director Frane Adam participated in the public round table entitled What Kind of the State do we wish for?

organized by Nova Revija Institute of Humanist Studies. The event took place on 21 March 2018 at Hotel Central.

Current

1. Research programme: Socio-cultural and organisational aspects of knowledge and technology transfer

Time frame: 2015 - 2020

Funded by: Slovenian Research Agency

Program group leader: Frane Adam PhD ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Program members (in 2017): Igor Bahovec PhD, Hans Westlund PhD, Andreja Trdina PhD, Angela Ivančič PhD, and Nick Vovk.

2. STEM4youth - Promotion of STEM education by key scientific challenges and their impact on our life and career perspectives

Time frame: 2016 - 2018

Funded by: HORIZON 2020

Project group leader: Frane Adam PhD ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Project manager and contact person: Nick Vovk ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

The project consortium consists of Insitute IRSA and 9 other partners: Warsaw University of Technology (PL) - Coordinator, Eugenides Foundation (GR), Jozef Stefan Institute - Center for technology transfer and innovation (SI), Fondazione Umberto Veronesi (IT), Research Path (GR), Technicka Univerzita Ostrava - Centrum podpory inovaci (CZ), University of Barcelona (ES), University of Cantabria (ES), Open Evidence (ES)

3. Pioneers: Citizen Science Experiment in High School

Time frame: 2017

Funded by: U.S. Embassy in Ljubljana

Project group leader: Frane Adam PhD ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Project manager and contact person: Nick Vovk ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )