News
Customize list
-
Slovenian Researchers Contributed to Revealing Traces of Deep Cave Systems on Australia’s Nullarbor Karst Plain
Kilometres-long shallow, elongated depressions on Australia’s Nullarbor Plain resemble broad riverbeds. In reality, however, they were not formed by surface river flow, but by the collapse of caves deep below the surface. These findings were made by Slovenian and Australian researchers, including Prof. Dr. Andrej Šmuc, Prof. Dr. Matej Dolenec, Assist. Prof. Dr. Tomislav Popit and Primož Miklavc from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering UL, and Prof. Dr. Uroš Stepišnik from the Faculty of Arts UL.
-
What Do Parents Think About Age Restrictions on Access to Social Media?
In Slovenia, 83% of parents support restricting access to social media for children and adolescents under the age of 15, according to a survey of parents’ views on children joining social media platforms and on parental controls.
-
From Ljubljana to Chile: UL FMF Researchers in One of Today’s Largest Astronomical Projects
Only a few months after reaching its First Light milestone, the international astronomical project 4MOST successfully completed its Science Programme Verification phase. In just three months, it recorded more than one million spectra of stars and galaxies, confirming its readiness for the systematic survey of the southern sky. Dr Gregor Traven and Dr Janez Kos of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, also play an important role in the project.
-
Ljubljana among the most successful European universities in the Horizon Europe programme
The University of Ljubljana (UL) is involved in 251 Horizon Europe projects, with funding in excess of EUR 93.6 million making it the leading research organisation in Slovenia. It is part of 99 Pillar II projects, and its application success rate has almost doubled compared with Horizon 2020.
-
Ljubljana on the European map of medical radioisotope production
European hospitals regularly face shortages of radioisotopes (or radionuclides) that are essential for detecting and treating cancer. The IFIGENEIA project, in which the University of Ljubljana takes part, is building an ecosystem for producing radioisotopes with new technologies that would bring this supply closer to patients in the region.
-
Development of Language Models in All EU Languages
The University of Ljubljana is participating in the European project LLMs4EU (Large Language Models for the European Union), which aims to develop large language models for all official languages of the European Union, including languages with fewer digital resources, such as Slovenian.
-
University of Ljubljana develops new guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence
The University of Ljubljana (UL) has developed a new set of guidelines for the use of AI that set out common bases for ensuring its safe, responsible, considered and transparent use at the university. The guidelines apply to students, teaching staff, researchers and professional staff in teaching, learning, assessment, R&D, technical and administrative work.
-
How will living labs help keep soils fertile and resilient?
How can soils remain fertile, resilient to climate change and capable of long-term food production? Answers to these questions are being sought in the European project TRAILS4SOIL in living labs, where farmers, researchers, advisors, industry representatives, policymakers and non-governmental organisations jointly develop, test and evaluate regenerative and conservation agricultural practices.
-
Jan Gimpelj Takes Third Place at World Fuel Cell Conference 2026 in Japan
Jan Gimpelj, a PhD student at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, has won third place in the 3-Minute Thesis competition at the World Fuel Cell Conference 2026 (WFCC 2026) in Fukuoka, Japan. He competed against 15 other young researchers from around the world.
-
The Sea Is More Than a Resource: Study Reveals How People Value It in the Northern Adriatic
Residents of the northern Adriatic do not see the sea merely as a space for tourism or economic activity. For them, it is also a space of identity, heritage and shared values. They therefore stress that protecting the sea is not only an environmental issue, but also a matter of preserving communities and their identity.
-
Completion of the KRPAN project: 479 new European projects and permanent consolidation of research support
June saw the completion of the KRPAN project, which was financed by a combination of Recovery and Resilience Plan and national funds. The project, which brought together five Slovenian public research organisations – the universities of Ljubljana, Maribor and Primorska, the Jožef Stefan Institute and Koper Science and Research Centre – was coordinated by the University of Ljubljana, consolidated the institutions’ research support significantly, and went considerably beyond the objectives that had been set at the start.
-
Filip Todorovski Receives the 2026 Oronzio and Niccolò De Nora Foundation Young Author Prize
University of Ljubljana Faculty of Mechanical Engineering researcher Filip Todorovski has received the 2026 Oronzio and Niccolò De Nora Foundation Young Author Prize, awarded by the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE). He received the award for a scientific paper examining the effects of contact pressure on the performance and durability of high-temperature fuel cells, published in Electrochimica Acta.
-
Dr. Snežana Popov awarded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship for SEROTONIN
Dr. Snežana Popov has been awarded the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA) for her project SEROTONIN – A Sight for Sore Eyes: Bridging People and Pollinators Through Pollinator Monitoring. She is hosted by the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, where she is conducting the research under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gregor Torkar.
-
Assistant Professor Svit Komel first Slovenian recipient of the Bader Prize
Assistant Professor Svit Komel of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana is the first Slovenian to receive the prestigious Bader Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for the best work by early-career researchers in the field of the history of science. He received the award for his doctoral dissertation Rule and Measure: A History of Juridical Practices in the Age of Surveys.
-
VIDI System Enables Precision Spraying in Vineyards and Orchards
Researchers at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, have developed VIDI, an innovative upgrade that adds precision-spraying functionality to existing vineyard sprayers. Using LiDAR technology, the system detects the presence, density and shape of vegetation in real time, determines the required dose and adjusts the output of each individual nozzle accordingly.
-
Are future healthcare professionals ready to use telemedicine?
Telemedicine promises easier access to healthcare, but its future will also depend on the people who will use it. How prepared are future healthcare professionals to work with new technologies?
-
Slovene language obtains its own generative large language model GaMS
Researchers at the University of Ljubljana have developed a generative large language model for Slovene GaMS, which places Slovene alongside languages for which advanced open-source artificial intelligence models already exist. This achievement marks an important step towards Slovenia’s technological sovereignty, as it enables the development and use of artificial intelligence tailored to the Slovene language, culture, and the needs of its users.
-
Green hydrogen as the foundation of energy independence of military bases
Military bases worldwide remain heavily dependent on fossil fuels for their energy supply, increasing their carbon footprint and vulnerability due to logistical challenges. Researchers from the UL Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, in collaboration with the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Slovenia, have developed an innovative methodology for designing autonomous energy hubs based on renewable energy sources and green hydrogen, and demonstrated its capabilities on the case of the energy system of the military barracks in Kranj.
-
First Slovenian quantum key distribution network based on entangled photons
Members of the SiQUID project have established Slovenia's first quantum communication network and developed the country's first industrial quantum encryptor. These achievements represent an important step towards the future quantum internet, as quantum technologies are expected to transform secure communications, computing, and sensing in the coming decades.
-
Higher diet quality is associated with a lower risk of developing dementia
Higher diet quality is associated with a lower risk of developing dementia, even among older adults with biological markers indicating an increased risk of neurodegenerative diseases. This is the key finding of a new study co-authored by asst. Anja Mrhar, MSc in Nutrition Engineering, a researcher and doctoral candidate at the Biotechnical Faculty UL.
