Marcos Bavdaz is Head of the Technology Preparation Section in the Science Directorate of the European Space Agency (ESA). Located at the European Space research and Technology Center (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, he is responsible for the timely development of novel technologies required

Boštjan Udovič, professor at the Chair of International Relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana and co-editor of the book Slovenia and the EU, 20 Years of Membership in Perspective, writes in his opinion piece for the Slovenia Times that after being a "diligent student"

Jerneja Penca, head of the Mediterranean Institute for Environmental Studies at the Koper Science and Research Centre, explores in an opinion piece for the Slovenia Times how society is only slowly coming to terms with tangible consequences of climate change such as sea level rise. She argues in fa