Impact

Public Event: Green Conservation Practices in Museums, Libraries, and Archives

We invite you to join us on 27 November 2024 at the Gallery of Modern Art, Ljubljana, for a day-long event dedicated to sustainability in heritage conservation. Hosted by the Heritage Science Laboratory Ljubljana, the EU project Greenart, and the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, the event features international experts discussing innovative green practices in heritage conservation. …

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Tjaša Rijavec Wins the L’Oreal – UNESCO »For Women in Science« Award

L’Oréal Adria and the Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO presented the L’Oréal-UNESCO National Programme “For Women in Science” 2024 Awards yesterday. For 18 years, the programme has been highlighting the importance and role of women in science and rewarding their scientific excellence. The prize was awarded to three promising young researchers, chemist Tjaša Rijavec, physicist …

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Research into dating of historical books receives award

Every year, the University of Ljubljana selects the ten most prominent research achievements among the proposals received from several members of the University, based on aspects, including impact, comprehensiveness, and applicability. This year, the research into the dating of historical books using near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopic data and machine learning was chosen as one of the …

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The Role of Academia in Art and Science Collaboration

The Slovenian Embassy in Ottawa, Canada, in collaboration with the German Embassy and the SAW Centre in Ottawa, organised a 2-day SCI-ART symposium on 25 and 26 March 2023, showcasing a number of internationally acclaimed artists, scientists, and researchers from around the world for discussion and exploration of the latest developments in the fields of …

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HSLL awarded a 2-year development grant

The Development Committee of the University of Ljubljana awarded the HSLL-led a proposal to develop an Interdisciplinary Network on the topic of Cultural Heritage and Climate Change, starting on 1 Oct 2021. The network consists of 11 Faculties and 16 researchers with backgrounds as different as architecture and chemistry, civil engineering and economics. The main …

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Prof. Baglioni’s Webinar: Soft matter and cultural heritage

We are pleased to announce that the Webinar “Application of soft matter to the conservation of cultural heritage” as presented by Professor Piero Baglioni, University of Florence, is now available as a video recording. Art conservation poses a significant and exciting challenge to soft matter-colloid scientists in two respects. Firstly, the majority of the best …

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Interview with Professor Strlič

In the frame of the series “Images of Knowledge”, Nina Slaček of the Radio ARS of the Slovenian National Broadcasting Corporation interviewed professor Strlič on 14 February 2020. This was a wide-ranging interview, but generally focusing on heritage science as a domain, its inherent interdisciplinarity, and a selection of research topics from library preservation to …

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