P4-0165 — Final report
1.
A NEW METHOD FOR DETECTION, PURIFICATION, CONCENTRATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF VIRUSES FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL WATERS

Cooperation with BIA separation on development of virus detection method from environmental waters led to new applications of the company.

F.09 Development of a new technological process or technology

COBISS.SI-ID: 22582745
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EDUCATIONAL, PEDAGOGICAL AND MENTORING PROGRAMS

Program members supervised one 20 bachelor, 1 master and 11 Ph.D. theses at the University of Ljubljana and University of Nova Gorica. Doctoral thesis of the young researcher Katarina Cankar, which was done in the course of the program, was awarded by the foundation Ad Futura as one of the 10 best thesis in Slovenia in last 5 years.

D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students

COBISS.SI-ID: 2970900
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ACCREDITATION OF A LABORATORY FOR THE DETECTION OF GMOs WITH A PARTLY FLEXIBLE SCOPE AND THE NATIONAL REFERENCE LABORATORY FOR GMO DETECTION

We are the national reference laboratory for GMO detection in food and feed with a partly flexible scope of accreditation.

D.05 Laboratory accreditation

COBISS.SI-ID: 1561935
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THE COOPERATION WITH COMPANIES FOR THE TRANSFER OF HIGH-TECHNOLOGY

Cooperation with over 70 industrial partners and 5 governmental ministries included an exchange of human resources, expertise and research equipment.

F.17 Transfer of existing technologies, know-how, methods and procedures into practice

COBISS.SI-ID: 1839439
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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS OF THE INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS AND ASSOCIATES IN THE INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL BODIES

The members of the program team are involved in the integrated FP6 EU Co-Extra project and Dr. Gruden coordinates one of the work packages. We participated in three additional FP5 and FP6 EU projects Transvir, Portcheck and Pepeira and are members of the board of management of the European network of laboratories for GMO detection and its professional bodies. We are Slovene representatives in the boards of management in several COST projects. Dr. Pompe Novak is a Slovene representative in the European Plant Science Organization and Dr. Ravnikar at EPPO. The latter is a co-founder of EFA.

D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects

COBISS.SI-ID: 1687119