The InnoRenew project consists of nine Slovenian partners and one German partner: the University of Primorska, Fraunhofer WKI, the Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute, the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, the University of Maribor, the Pulp and Paper Institute, Zavod eOblak, the National Institute of Public Health,  the Regional Development Agency of the Ljubljana Urban Region and the InnoRenew CoE.

A consortium of the above-mentioned partners, led by the University of Primorska, applied to the Teaming instrument call from the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, Horizon 2020, with the proposed project of establishment of a new research institute, the InnoRenew CoE. At the end of 2016, the project proposal was selected for funding as the only one from Slovenia among 169 international project proposals. In April 2017, the InnoRenew CoE was officially established as a private not-for-profit research institute.

This establishment is a commitment to the approved and selected project proposal funded by the European Commission. Construction of a new building for the research institute is also a part of the project proposal, which contains a pilot project. The planning and construction of this pilot project – the buildings of the InnoRenew CoE – represent interdisciplinary research and include the latest, highly innovative structural as well as architectural and building-physical elements.

The InnoRenew CoE employs an interdisciplinary research team of building planners and researchers who combine knowledge of several disciplines, including architecture, construction, mechanical engineering, psychology, ergonomics, wood science and knowledge from multidisciplinary researchers in the healthy living environments area. With the planned buildings, researchers aim to transfer scientific discoveries into architecture to test them and set completely new goals for architectural planning of the future. There is no company or architectural bureau in Slovenia that would consistently use all of the above-mentioned disciplines and knowledge in timber construction, especially not the concept of restorative environmental and ergonomic design (REED). The InnoRenew CoE is the first institute in the world developing REED, which was a key element in the selection for funding of this European project.

Colleagues from the University of Primorska gathered all the facts and information about the biggest European project in Slovenia (so far), the InnoRenew CoE. They prepared a video with data and answers to the complaints and incorrect information that are currently present in the public.

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