Projects

The UP FM Centre for Knowledge Development and Transfer is involved in various international and national projects that promote the marketing and commercialisation of knowledge from academia to the economy and aim to foster innovation and entrepreneurship among students and researchers at the University of Primorska.

Check out the projects we are currently involved in and read about the ones that have already been successfully completed!

And we are certainly open to new project collaborations!

Contact us via: crpz@upr.si

CURRENT

»Enterprise Europe Network – Slovenia« (EEN5 2022-2025)

The University of Primorska is one of the project partners participating in the “EEN Slovenia” project, which was selected in the European call for proposals “Enterprise Europe Network (SMP-COSME-2021-EEN)”, and is co-funded by the “Single Market Programme”. The aim of the project is to offer Slovenian micro, small and medium-sized enterprises free business support services in the field of internationalisation of business.

More information on the project’s activities and services: www.een.si

The project consortium is led by the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The project partnership also includes the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Jožef Stefan Institute, the SPIRIT Slovenia Agency, the University of Primorska, the University of Maribor and RRA Podravje.

The project is co-funded by the European Commission under the Single Market Programme.

Contact person:

Leon Pavlič, project manager, leon.pavlic@fm-kp.si , tel: 05 610 20 44

 

“Erasmus for Young Enterpreneurs – Promoting the transfer of entrepreneurial skills between experienced and young entrepreneurs (2023-2027)”

The University of Primorska is one of the project partners participating in the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs project, which has been selected under the European call for proposals SMP-COSME-2021-EYE. The project consortium is led by Hochschule Fulda from Germany. The project partnership involves 10 organisations from 8 European countries.

The aim of the programme and the project is to promote entrepreneurship and strengthen the transfer of entrepreneurial skills between experienced and future or young entrepreneurs, with the aim of transferring the necessary entrepreneurial skills and knowledge for the successful start-up and management of young entrepreneurs’ businesses. The programme facilitates and co-finances 1-6 month entrepreneur exchanges for young and future entrepreneurs who apply for the programme and find a suitable experienced host entrepreneur abroad with the help of an Erasmus intermediary organisation.

Information and application here.

The University of Primorska participates as the Slovenian local Erasmus intermediary organisation.

Contact persons:

Leon Žunec, project manager, leon.zunec@fm-kp.si , tel: 05 663 77 87

Leon Pavlič, leon.pavlic@fm-kp.si , tel: 05 610 20 44.

The investment is co-funded by the European Union under the COSME – Competititveness of SMEs programme.

»COASTOUR – Coastal and Rural Tourism development (2023-2026)«

The University of Primorska is one of the project partners participating in the “COASTOUR” project, which was selected in the European call for proposals “ESMP-COSME-2021-TOURSME”, and is co-funded by the “Single Market Programme”.

The project aims to increase the competitiveness, resilience and sustainability of European rural coastal tourism SMEs and to strengthen the capacity of SMEs transnationally. At the same time, the project aims to strengthen the synergies of the sustainability advisory support ecosystem with existing European sustainability frameworks and tools and to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of existing EU sustainability schemes.

Accordingly, the main objective of the project is to develop a sustainability monitoring tool within the tourism sector and to make it available for self-assessment in monitoring sustainability performance to at least eighty SMEs in five countries. At the same time, it is also a starting point to strengthen their awareness, development and capacity in the field of sustainable innovation.

The project consortium is led by the NorthDenmark EU-Office and consists of 8 organisations from 5 European countries.

Contact person: Leon Žunec, leon.zunec@fm-kp.si , tel: 05 663 77 87

The project is co-funded by the European Commission under the Single Market Programme.

»SRC-EDIH – Smart, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities – European Digital Innovation Hub (2022-2025)«

The University of Primorska is one of the project partners participating in the “SRC-EDIH” project, which was selected in the European call for proposals “DIGITAL-2021-EDIH”, and is co-funded by the “Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL)”.

The SRC-EDIH project aims to contribute to the accelerated digitisation of manufacturing SMEs and the digital transformation of public administrations through advanced digital technologies. Through advanced interaction with national and European DIHs, SRC-EDIH will raise awareness on the importance of digital transformation for sustainable growth and serve as a one-stop shop for knowledge, guidance and support to enhance digitisation in government and industry institutions.

In addition, the SRC-EDIH project also aims to provide SMEs with access to prototyping and test environments to accelerate the adoption of new digital technologies and skills and advance current digital solutions. In addition, the project will provide support to build an industrial ecosystem of companies with a wide range of expertise in different fields and support to access European and national public and private funding to strengthen the capacity of companies to implement digital innovations and increase their competitiveness.

The project consortium is led by the Novo mesto Development Centre and consists of 8 Slovenian organisations.

Contact person: Leon Žunec, leon.zunec@fm-kp.si , tel: 05 663 77 87

SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED

Konzorcij za prenos tehnologij iz JRO v gospodarstvo – KTT (2017-2022)

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»Enterprise Europe Network – Slovenia« (EEN2, EEN3, EEN4 2016-2022)

Naložbo je sofinancirala Evropska komisija iz programa »Single Market Programme«.

Erasmus for Young Enterpreneurs 7, 8, 9 in 11 – Promoting the transfer of entrepreneurial skills between experienced and young entrepreneurs (2015-2023)

Naložbo je sofinancirala Evropska unija iz iz programa COSME – Competititveness of SMEs