The Institute (IRI UL) was founded by the University of Ljubljana together with 10 technologically advanced and successful Slovenian companies as a non-profit organisation under public interest. Its purpose is to promote the creation, transfer, dissemination and use of knowledge as well as the integration of the innovation triangle (research-education-innovation) through the transfer of research results into practice and their commercial use.
In 2015, the most important activities of IRI UL were focused on the energy efficiency improvement of University buildings. The Institute set up a central information system and included all University members in it. The central information system provides the basis for real-time data acquisition on energy use and is currently the only energy bookkeeping system of such scale in Slovenia. Furthermore, IRI UL cooperates with University members in the preparation of technical documents for energy efficiency improvements to their buildings and gives them advice on energy saving measures.
In 2015, the Institute successfully completed the TRAP-EE project (training for caretakers) and started coordinating a new CompoHub project. The key goal of the new project is to develop an educational programme and online educational platform for the development of employee competences in composite technologies.
