Slovenian Steel Group (SIJ) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Saudi Arabian government on its involvement in a €EUR 1.5 billion investment in Saudi Arabia.
Under the agreement, SIJ and its Saudi partner WAHAJ will set up the production of electro steel and premium hot rolled strips
The Faculty of Computer and Information Science of the University of Ljubljana will soon obtain a cutting-edge data centre to support advanced AI research, including the creation of a Slovenian large language model.
Under a €2.5 million contract signed on 16 January with the Slovenian company NTR I
The Slovenian Armed Forces (SAF) have obtained cutting-edge virtual and mixed reality simulators developed by the Defence Ministry and the aviation technology and precision mechanics company AFormX. They will be used for pilot training, including for tactical flying.
The virtual and mixed reality s
Rebeka Kropivšek Leskovar, a development engineer working for Interblock, a developer and supplier of electronic table gaming products, has won the Woman Engineer of the Year title for 2024.
Kropivšek Leskovar has been interested in technology since childhood. As a little girl she would take phones
The Škoda Superb has been voted the Slovenian Car of the Year for 2025, pipping the Dacia Duster, Peugeot 3008, Citroen C3, and the Renault Symbioz to the title in what was the first time since 2017 that only European car makes made the shortlist.
The winner was declared at the final event at the P
Tržič, a town at the foot of the Karawanks once known for its textile and shoemaking industries, has been redeveloping a former cotton mill to boost local business and provide opportunity to young people.
The cotton spinning and weaving plant (BPT), whose origins go back to 1885, closed down in 200
As Slovenia plans to phase out coal in the coming years, €83 million has been approved for projects to restructure the country's two coal regions. The money comes from the EU's Just Transition Fund.
Eligible for just transition funding is the central Zasavje region, where coal mining stopped a deca
Slovenia becoming the 23rd member of the European Space Agency (ESA) starting from 2025 was described as a historic moment by the agency's director general Josef Aschbacher as the country marked the occasion with two high-profile events on 10 January.
Addressing a press conference on the sidelines
A Swedish company is building a special kind of wind tunnel, an inclined flight chamber, in Žirovnica in northwest Slovenia, in what will be only the second such facility in Europe. It is targeted primarily at ski jumpers, but wingsuit flyers and adrenaline junkies will be welcome as well.
Inclined
