Friday, 11 June 2021 Through collaboration towards future innovations

The Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute (ZAG) is one of project partners and cofounders of InnoRenew CoE. Yesterday, they successfully presented the ERA Chair Horizon2020 FRISSBE Fire-safe Sustainable Built Environment project which will be active for six years.

It is an interdisciplinary project aiming to increasing scientific excellence of ZAG in the field of fire-safe and sustainably built environment. In addition, the project will influence the regional development of research, education and engineering and strengthen cooperation with the industry.

InnoRenew CoE and University of Primorska are included in the project as part of the interactive ecosystem and are together cocreating a good basis for further collaboration and development in the field of innovation and research. 

In recent years, University of Primorska and Civil Engineering Institute have been cooperating intensively on many activities - the two intitutions have also signed a cooperation agreement, furthermore ZAG is also a member of the UP Board of Trustees. "ZAG is the only Slovenian research institution involved in projects from two different EU Widening mechanisms: Teaming and ERA-Chair. In both, we have an excellent cooperation with InnoRenew CoE and the University of Primorska, which shows the extraordinary compatibility and mutual trust of all participants," can be read on ZAG website.