The University awarded its 10,000th PhD degree to Katarina Polajnar Horvat from the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, for the doctoral dissertation entitled The Role of Social Factors in Developing Environmental Awareness and Changing Environmental Behaviour. The first PhD candidate at the University of Ljubljana was Ana Mayer from the same faculty, who earned her PhD in chemistry. In Slovenia, most doctors of philosophy graduated from the University of Ljubljana, and an increasing number of PhDs are awarded to foreign students.
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal published an article entitled Protein aggregation in salt solutions by researchers from the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology University of Ljubljana. They proposed a model solution with short-range and directional forces between protein molecules. The model predicts the formation of chains and clusters and gives a correct description of the experimentally specified phase diagram for the co-existence of two liquid phases in the case of lysozyme solutions.
The University Rector, Prof. Dr. Ivan Svetlik welcomed a delegation from the Yunnan Agricultural University in China. The universities agreed to collaborate in teacher and student exchange and in joint programmes, and concluded by signing a memorandum on cooperation.
At the University of Ljubljana we hosted a lecture by Prof. Tang Tao from the Beijing Jiaotong University. He spoke of the Chinese railway development in the last decade and security challenges in the management of railway infrastructure in China. He specialises in railway control and safety in China and is at the same time an expert in high technology and Development Programme 863 in modern transport systems.
Within the scope of the University of Ljubljana Career Centre – the meeting point of promising human resources and good employers, the University of Ljubljana organised theelevator pitch festival University goes to market, which was held in Kongresni trg, in front of the Rectorate. At the festival, students presented themselves to over fifty employer representatives on city buses that were parked in front of the Rectorate for this particular occasion. The presentation of a job interview with an employer was symbolically performed by the University Rector Prof. Dr. Ivan Svetlik and the Mayor of Ljubljana Zoran Janković.
The University of Ljubljana Rectorate held the founding meeting of the Slovenian Innovation Hub, attended by 23 co-founders. The latter signed a memorandum of incorporation, elected council members and adopted a programme of work and an annual financial plan. In the programme of work, co-founders primarily committed themselvesto prepare specific partner development projects or form value chains, but also to cooperate in the preparation of long-term state programmes. The fundamental goal is to contribute to the development of a knowledge-based economy and raise the international competitiveness of Slovenia.
