Josef Stefan Institute

Jožef Stefan Institute is the leading Slovenian scientific research institute, covering a broad spectrum of basic and applied research. The staff of about 1050 specializes in natural sciences, life sciences and engineering.

Research topics covered concern production and control technologies, communication and computer technologies, knowledge technologies, biotechnologies, new materials, environmental technologies, nanotechnologies, and nuclear engineering.

The mission of the Jožef Stefan Institute is the accumulation - and dissemination - of knowledge at the frontiers of natural science and technology to the benefit of society at large through the pursuit of education, learning, research, and development of high technology at the highest international levels of excellence.

The Institute devotes a considerable amount of effort to transferring the results of its research and knowledge to productive applications and to the market. The Institute has a long tradition in developing collaborative partnerships with industry and SMEs. This collaboration turns out a continuous stream of new products and services, which in turn advance national economy, improve r quality of life and bring real-world technology and management issues into r research laboratories.

The new knowledge and ideas that are the result of the research at the Institute and its international partners offer numerous development opportunities for Slovene and foreign enterprises. Of particular importance are development of technologies, devices and products; counselling; education of the innovative personnel; joint use of equipment and organisation of joint development teams; assistance with international projects and networks.

Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) is the Digital Innovation Hub (DIH), coordinated by the inner Center for Technology Transfer and Innovation (CTT). Based on European integration within the European Commission’s Digital Innovation Network, the hub is participating in applications for European Commission’s projects for digital innovation hubs, in applications for projects where the component of the digital innovation hub is required, and in applications of the Letter of Intent on various initiatives for digital innovation hubs. The European Commission’s Digital Innovation Network operates in accordance with the following guidance.

As the central part of development, digitization and industrial relations at national and international level, the hub is establishing a system of collaboration between the IJS research departments, the domestic and foreign economy, and the partner networks within the Europe Enterprise Europe Network and the network of technology transfer offices in Slovenia KTT (only in Slovene).

 The hub helps researchers and companies to innovate, to transfer scientific results into practice, and digitalization of industry within the framework of the support of the Customized Low Energy Computing Competence center (CLEC) at the Department of Communication Systems at the Jožef Stefan Institute, which is establishing a network of competence centers across the EU. The hub provides “one-stop shops” and cross-border technology transfer services in the EU and serves as a contact point for the local ecosystem in Slovenia.

More about the Institute research areas:

Evolvement of research areas - Institut "Jozef Stefan" (ijs.si) https://www.ijs.si/ijsw/Evolvement%20of%20research%20areas

Enlisting of regional, national, European and global networks

Jožef Stefan Institute is part of:

• PATLIB network (Patent Information Center or Patent Library) at EPO Members
• EARTO (European Association of Research and technology Organisations)
• Expert Group on Strengthening the Management of the enhanced EIC pilot
• CERN KT (CERN Knowledge Transfer)
• CERN KT Forum and KT Forum on Medical Applications
• HiPEAC (High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation) network
• European Research Council
• SWAFS AG (Science With And For Society Advisory Group)
• FETAG (Future and Emerging Technologies Advisory Group)
• TTO Circle (European Technology Transfer Offices Circle)
• Enterprise Europe Network: Within the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) project CTT helps small and medium enterprises, as well as large enterprises, research organizations, professional and sector associations, technology centers and other entities to seize the unparalleled business opportunities in the EU Single Market.
• JSI is the coordinator of the Strategic Research and Innovation Partnership of the Factory of the Future (SRIP FoF) that integrates key enabling technologies within the framework of the national Smart Specialization Strategy.
• JSI coordinates the horizontal network Modern Production Technologies for Materials in the frame of SRIP FoF with the development and implementation of modern technologies for materials such as placement of pilot lines.
• JSI is the member of the ELCA (European Lightweight Cluster Alliance) - a collaborative initiative that aims to accelerate the adoption of lightweight materials in strategic industries. JSI focuses on the development of ceramic- and bio-based materials for electronic devices with new or improved properties and research on nanostructured materials with the processes for their preparation.
• JSI is the partner of Center of excellence in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology that offer open access infrastructure for academics, researchers, members from industry providing technological platform for pretentious nanofacture and characterization of the nanostructures with defined metrological standards for synthesis and other protocols.
• JSI is an active partner in the Centre of Excellence NAMASTE as a part of JSI joins top-level scientists and industry R&D departments in order to accelerate the development of improved and new non-metallic materials, components and devices, new knowledge and technologies, advanced bio-materials in areas such as electronics, optoelectronics, photonics and medicine.
• JSI is a main foreign partner of the International Associated Laboratories (LIA) that focuses on search for new push-pull alloys in ternary metal systems.
• JSI coordinates Centre of Excellence for Integrated Approaches in Chemistry and Biology of Proteins that assures the development of technological expertise and knowhow which will be applied in several projects relevant for industrial partners, with drug discovery, optimization and drug synthesis being the target technology developments.