Overview of the ViVaCCAdapt project’s activities in the first half of 2019
The LIFE ViVaCCAdapt project runs from 1 June 2016 to 30 June 2021 and covers various aspects of adapting agriculture to climate change in the Vipava Valley. The project is co-funded by the LIFE programme and the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Slovenia.
IzVRS has joined the INOVATIS Competence Centre as a founding member
In September, the Public Scholarship, Development, Disability and Maintenance Fund of the Republic of Slovenia supported the third generation – ten new KOC 3.0 centres of excellence for human resources development – for the period 2019– 2022. With the KOC INOVATIS project, we were selected from a strong field of competitors in the field of ‘Smart Buildings and Homes with a Wood Supply Chain’
Clean Coast 2019 – worrying results from the clean-up campaign
On Saturday, 21 September 2019, the tenth edition of the ‘Clean Coast’ clean-up campaign took place, organised by the Slovenian Water Institute in collaboration with the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning and the TRI-NITI Institute.
A report on the ‘Clean Coast’ clean-up campaign featured on the RTV programme ‘Dober dan’
The Slovenian Water Institute presented the ‘Clean Coast’ clean-up campaign on the programme ‘Dober dan’.
Final registrations for the ‘Clean Coast 2019’ clean-up campaign
This year marks the 10th time we’ll be coming together for the ČISTA OBALA clean-up campaign,
to clean up the Slovenian coastline together.
First investment in the GREVISLIN project completed
On Friday, 13 September, the grand opening of the new footpath along the River Pivka took place. The footpath runs from Vilharjeva Street to the vicinity of the car park at Postojna Cave. It was built as part of the project ‘Green Infrastructure, Conservation and Improvement of the Status of Endangered Species and Habitat Types along Rivers’, or GREVISLIN for short.
Sign up for the ‘Clean Coast 2019’ clean-up campaign
To help us organise the event, registration is required at:
uros.robic@izvrs.si by 11:00 on 19 September 2019 at the latest. Upon registration, volunteers will receive further instructions and additional information about the event itself.
Are microplastics in drinking water (harmless) to health?
At the Slovenian Water Institute, we issued a statement on the harmful effects of microplastics on human health. The report was broadcast on the Dnevnik programme on 22 August 2019.
Collaboration between IzVRS and the Jožef Stefan Institute, the Faculty of Biotechnology and Gorenje
The Slovenian Water Institute, in collaboration with the Jožef Stefan Institute, the Faculty of Biotechnology, Department of Biology, and Gorenje, as a co-funding partner, has successfully submitted a research project to the ARRS entitled ‘Degradation of textile microplastics from domestic wastewater’.
Invitation to the ‘Clean Coast 2019’ clean-up campaign
‘Clean Coast’ is a clean-up campaign taking place across Slovenia’s coastal municipalities, now in its tenth year; as well as cleaning up the coastline, it aims to raise public awareness with a view to reducing the amount of new waste entering the marine environment.