Events

As customary for the beginning of the new academic year, the University of Nova Gorica is organizing several events, all part of the so called University of Nova Gorica Week. Various programs and activities will be in progress between 14 and 18 October, 2013. During this time, different lectures, roundtables, workshops, project presentations, exhibitions and the like will be taking place at the University and its schools, at laboratories and centers. The key event of the week will be the formal celebration marking the kick-off of the new academic year on Thursday.

Between 3rd and 5th October, 2013, the Slovenian Congress of Slavists will be taking place at the University of Nova Gorica's venue within the Lanthieri Mansion in Vipava (3rd October), at the Nova Gorica Grammar School (4th October), and around the region, to be specific, following the Soča front route (5th October).

In collaboration with the EPF (»European Photocatalysis Federation«), the Laboratory for Environmental Research of the University of Nova Gorica will organize the Third European Symposium on Photocatalysis. It will be taking place in Portorož, between 25th and 27th September.

The Materials Research Laboratory of the University of Nova Gorica is hosting the conference »European Conference of Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Growth - ECo MaTech«, taking place from 19-21 September 2013, at Bled (Slovenia).

The School of Humanities at the University of Nova Gorica is the co-organizer of 11th International Comparative Literature Colloquium titled Literature and Moving Images which will be taking place between 11 and 13 September, 2013, as part of this year's Vilenica International Literary Festival.

University of Nova Gorica will be present at this year's MOS Fair (International Trade Fair) which is organized by the Chamber of Craft and Small Business of Slovenia. The Fair will be taking place in Celje between 11 and 17 September, 2013.

University of Nova Gorica, as a partner of the project NANOFORCE, organizes a guided and quick opportunity to develop business ideas and obtain funding for startup businesses, entrepreneurs, researchers and scientists.

In collaboration with the National Institute for Biology and WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) from the United States, the Center for Biomedical Sciences and Engineering at the University of Nova Gorica is organizing the international summer school called “From 2D Biology to Engineered 3D Medical Solutions.”

Once again, the University of Nova Gorica's School for Viticulture and Enology will be present at the international agricultural and food Fair which will take place between 24th and 29th August, 2013 in Gornja Radgona, Slovenia.

On 2 July , 2013 at 10 a.m., the University of Nova Gorica will organize an event called “Developmental Projects of the University of Nova Gorica at the Crossroads of National and Trans-border Challenges”. It will be held at the University’s space in the Lanthieri mansion in Vipava.

On Thursday, 30 May 2013, between 6 and 9 pm the School of Arts cordially invites you to the main yearly public event of the School, to Palazzo Alvarez.

On Thursday, 30 May, 2013, the University of Nova Gorica's School for Viticulture and Enology will organize the 6th Annual Student Wine Festival. This year, it will be, for the first time, held at the Lanthieri mansion in Vipava (Glavni trg 8), where the School for Viticulture and Enology has its new home base. Student presentations will open the festival at 4 pm.

At the 80th birthday of dr. Gregor Kocijan, the Faculty of Arts at the University of Nova Gorica is putting together a symposium titled Slovene Literature between Tradition and Innovation. It will be held on Tuesday, 28 May 2013, in the conference room of the Lanthieri mansion in Vipava.

University of Nova Gorica kindly invites you to the Information day which will be held on Wednesday, 28 May, 2013 at the 4 p.m.

University of Nova Gorica invites to the lecture: "Healthy Aging – interdisciplinary approach to study human aging" by Prof. Dr. Lene Juel Rasmussen (Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen).

Between April 17 and 20, 2013, the third LOS Fair was held at the Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Center. The University of Nova Gorica had a chance to present itself to the visitors of the fair.

University of Nova Gorica invites to the lecture: "From targeted analysis to untargeted metabolomics and its application biological sciences" by Doc. Dr. Urška Vrhovšek (Fondazione Edmund Mach, Research and Innovation Centre, Food Quality and Nutrition Department, Via E.Mach 1, 38010 S.Michele all'Adige, Italy).

Between April 8th and April 11th, 2013, the Laboratory of Organic Matter Physics at the University of Nova Gorica will organize an international scientific workshop that will join world's leading experts on graphene. They will exchange ideas about their research and also present them to thirty doctoral students from all over Europe.

You are cordially invited to the Easter’s concert of the University of Nova Gorica on April 1st, 2013 at 5 pm in the Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary on Sveta Gora by Nova Gorica.

University of Nova Gorica invites to the lecture: "The Challenges of Knowledge" by Prof. Dr. Stane Pejovnik (Rector of the University of Ljubljana).