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On Wednesday, 16. December 2020, the first meeting on strengthening the cooperation between civil and defence stakeholders in the sphere of energy and the environment as it relates to defence and security came to a successful conclusion.

The event is the first of several promotional activities aimed at informing the public about the newly launched Slovenian Energy and Environment Partnership in Defence

The DG DEFIS adopted the EDF work programme 2022 with €1 billion to boost the EU’s defence capabilities and new tools for defence innovation.

The 2022 EDF work programme addresses a total of 33 topics structured along eight calls for proposals to be opened in early June. Energy-related topics are not as extensively included in this year’s

In the case of the natural water cycle, the sun’s energy promotes water evaporation from natural resources, such as rivers, lakes, seas and plants. The evaporated water forms clouds, which send the energy back to the Earth’s surface in the form of rain. This rain then forms streams, rivers, lakes and seas. The natural cycle is completed.

Traditional means of transport deploy the energy of hydrocarbons – that took millions of years to form and which are

In October 2020 the first six members entered the SiEnE: the companies TROIA d.o.o. and ROBOTINA d.o.o., the Laboratory for Cooling and District Energy (LAHDE) and the Department of Energy Engineering (KES) at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer

In the framework of the RESHUB project – Defence RESilience HUB Network in Europe – the Slovenian Ministry of Defence (Si MoD) is setting up a network of self-sufficient energy hubs in Slovenia. The Ministry is also the holder of the initiative to create similar hubs in the EU.

The network of hubs comprises renewable energy sources, energy conversion and

On Friday, 11th September 2020, the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with the Slovenian Ministry of Defence and the Slovenian Armed Forces, hosted a meeting for NATO member state ambassadors accredited to Slovenia, in the Edvard Peperko Barracks in Ljubljana.

At this event, held in cooperation with the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce, Slovenian

The SYeNERGY Event for TECES members and partners also attended by the State Secretary at the Ministry of Defence (SiMoD), Dr. Damir Črnčec, in his role as a representative of SiMoD and a co-founder of the Slovenian Partnership for Energy and Environment in Defence (SiEnE), highlighted the role of TECES and the SiEnE partnership in developing solutions for both civil and defence purposes.

On 22 September 2020, the SiEnE was successfully introduced at a meeting of the Energy and Environment Working Group (EnE WG), part of the European Defence Agency (EDA).

The working group’s meeting was devoted to discussing climate change and its implications for defence, as well as the reviewing of further developments in the field. The virtual meeting was attended by a large

As from October 2020, TECES has been conducting a feasibility study on ways of developing smart deployable infrastructure or Smart Deployable Camps (Smart Camp) under a public procurement contract for the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Slovenia (Si MoD).

The aim of the R&D study is to analyse the state of technology and relevant global trends in

The European Defence Fund (EDF) has published the first set of tenders, where 37 tender areas in a total value of 1,2 billion EUR are available. TECES has with the support of its members and the active support of the Ministry of Defence (MORS) within the Slovenian Partnership for Energy and Environment in

The first two-day conference to be held under the auspices of the German EU Presidency and organised by the Consultation Forum for Sustainable Energy in the Defence and Security Sector (CF SEDSS) and the German Ministry of Defence, took place on 27 and 28 October 2020.

Some 170 experts from 29 European countries and more than 20 different institutions and organisations participated in the

On 5 November 2020, the SiEnE partnership was presented at the event “Greening Defence – how to make the Armed Forces more sustainable”.

The event, organised by the British Embassy in Ljubljana and supported by the Slovenian Ministry of Defence (Si MoD), highlighted the possibilities in making the defence sector greener and the Armed Forces more sustainable, particularly in relation to new technologies.

The event was

In January 2021 additional five members joined the SiEnE partnership; Faculty of Design, Associated Member of University of Primorska; Marles Hiše d.o.o.; Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana; Razvojno tehnološki center RTC d.o.o. and TECOS. Since SiEnE was established, 20 members have joined the

In December 2020, nine additional members joined the SiEnE partnership: the companies ADRIA DOM d.o.o., ALPLES d.d., DOMEL, d.o.o., PODKRIŽNIK d.o.o., SANING International d.o.o., SMARTIS d.o.o., SOLVERA LYNX d.o.o. in ŠPICA INTERNATIONAL d.o.o., and the Department for Catalysis and Reaction Engineering at the National Institute of Chemistry. Since the establishing of

On 31^st March 2022 the European Defence Agency (EDA) and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) organized the 1^st workshop on » Waste to energy technologies in defence (WANTED)«.

The purpose of the workshop was to explore and collect appropriate WTE solutions applicable to the defence