The University of Ljubljana (UL) is the oldest and largest higher education and scientific research institution in Slovenia. The university, with its rich tradition, was founded in 1919. It has about 41,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students. It employs about 6,000 university teachers, researchers, assistants and administrative staff in 23 faculties and three art academies. The University of Ljubljana is known for its high-quality social sciences, natural sciences and technical study programmes, structured following Bologna Declaration. Our projects keep pace with the latest developments in art, science and technology, both at home and abroad.
More than 3,500 researchers work at the University of Ljubljana. University teachers and researchers regularly contribute almost 50% of all internationally acclaimed scientific publications from Slovenia. The University of Ljubljana has close ties with Slovenian companies and foreign enterprises. In 2020, the University of Ljubljana was involved in 621 European projects. The University of Ljubljana has been ranked among the top 600 universities by the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
The Biotechnical Faculty, where the activities of the ASFORCLIC project are carried out, is one of the largest faculties of the University of Ljubljana. The mission of the Biotechnical Faculty is to provide university level, advanced professional and postgraduate education, as well as to carry out scientific research and technical and consulting work concerning the sciences of living nature (biology, microbiology) as well as agriculture, forestry and fisheries (forestry, animal husbandry, agronomy) and the related production technologies (wood technology, food technology, biotechnology). The common denominator of all academic and scientific disciplines at the Biotechnical Faculty is natural resources (soil, physical space, flora, fauna, and water).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N°952314.