Society and Industry

With close collaboration with all knowledge and competences users that has to offer, University of Primorska integrates in the environment and is successfully realizing duality of its core mission-research and education. Knowledge that University of Primorska offers to economy, companies, public institutions and other straightforward knowledge users, represents a quality upgrade of fundamental research and it is a basis of more effective yield of general intellectual potential of society and the comparative advantage of the space in which it operates.

UP knows how to adapt and how to actively include in the environment which is becoming more and more open for experimentations and innovations. With its activities it is constantly looking for new opportunities for cooperation and active participation in business processes, helps to spread the creative ideas that market needs and encourages sustainable development.

In order to successfully use all of the possibilities that the presence of the university in the environment has to offer and it’s partnering with all of the knowledge users, UP has established different cores and structures. According to the fact that similar practices are already present in the modern international university place, we cannot always be innovative but we definitively want to be effective.

Established institutional connecting mechanisms of the University of Primorska:

• Council of Trustees
• Scholarship Fund of UP,
• Career center of UP (KC UP),
• Center for knowledge development and transfer of UP (CRPZ),
• Confucius classroom (KUK UP),
• Consortium for development of higher education in the field of Natural sciences and innovative technologies of UP,
• Center for collaboration with industry (within organizational structure IAM).