Session topics

Sustainable technologies

  • Smart specializations
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Sustainable transport
  • Environment-friendly technologies
  • Energy efficient solutions and renewable energy sources
  • Robotisation and Automatisation

Materials with technological potential

  • Smart materials
  • Materials’ design, assembly and industrial applications
  • Composite materials for novel technological applications
  • Biomechanics and bioengineering

Strategies for a green transition and a sustainable society

  • Industry 4.0 and 5.0
  • Digitalisation
  • Research, Development, Innovation
  • Ecological management
  • Quality management

Regions, cities and the circular economy

  • Circular economy
  • Social potentials
  • Company opportunities
  • System Design

Language

  • Slovene
  • English
  • Languages of former Yugoslavia

Program committee

  • Assist. Prof. Tomaž Savšek, PhD, TIGUS d.o.o., Slovenija (president)
  • Prof. Emerit. Dorian Marjanović, PhD, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Hrvaška
  • Prof. Emerit. Rudolf Pušenjak, PhD, Faculty of Industrial Engineering Novo mesto, Slovenia
  • Prof. Emerit. Velimir Srića, PhD, Akademik Europske akademije and Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • prof. Julius Kaplunov, Phd, Keele University, UK
  • prof. Simon Muhič, PhD, Faculty of Industrial Engineering Novo mesto, Slovenia
  • Assoc. Prof. Dolores Modic, PhD, Innovation and Management at Nord University Business School, Nord University, Norway
  • Assist. Prof. Darko Števančec, PhD, Faculty of Industrial Engineering Novo mesto, Slovenia
  • Assist. Prof. Damir Vrančić, PhD, Institut Jožef Stefan, Slovenia
  • Matej Forjan, PhD, School center Novo mesto, Slovenia
  • Georgios Kordogiannis, PhD, Institut Jožef Stefan, Slovenia
  • Barbara Zupančič, PhD, Kemijski inštitut, Slovenia
  • Iris Fink Grubačević, MSc, Sen. Lect., Faculty of Industrial Engineering Novo mesto, Slovenia

Editorial board

  • Iris Fink Grubačević, MSc, Sen. Lect. (president)
  • Assist. Prof. Marica Prijanovič Tonkovič, PhD
  • Assist. Prof. Damir Vrančić, PhD
  • Assist. Prof. Darko Števančec, PhD

Organizing committee

  • Iris Fink Grubačević, MSc, Sen. Lect.
  • Assist. Prof. Darko Števančec, PhD
  • Lucija Galič, mag. posl. ved
  • Janja Šašek, dipl. ekon.

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