{"id":859,"date":"2025-12-15T10:05:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/act-si.org\/2025\/12\/15\/innovation-fund-online-course\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:20:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:20:57","slug":"innovation-fund-online-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/act-si.org\/en\/2025\/12\/15\/innovation-fund-online-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Fund online course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We invite potential applicants to the Innovation Fund call to attend a series of three webinars that are designed to help you prepare for the upcoming calls.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The course will be hosted by experienced project managers and experts in the field of sustainability, chemical engineering, and energy management:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nina Megli\u010d, Director of ACT-SI, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nina-meglic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>More than 10 years of experience in managing research and development projects in the field of low-carbon circular economy, accelerator of the research and development ecosystem, member of the EIB Women Climate Leaders Network, part of the NCP for STEP <\/em><em>Slovenia, SIST representative for ISO 59000, project coordinator <\/em><em>at ReCatalyst. She holds a Master&#8217;s degree from the Rome Business School in <\/em><em>the field of sustainable management and circular bioeconomy.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr. Bla\u017e Likozar, National Institute of Chemistry, Head of the Department of Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bla%C5%BE-likozar-6a890b66\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>He is leading the programme \u201cChemical Reaction Engineering\u201d, as well as numerous research projects (15 H2020 \/ &gt;50 in Horizon Europe alone). His expertise lies (among others) in heterogeneous catalysis materials, modelling, simulation, and optimization of process fluid mechanics, transport phenomena, and chemical kinetics. He worked at the University of Delaware in 2014\u20132015 as a Fulbright Program researcher. He has authored &gt;400 articles, was cited &gt;10,000 times, having an h-index of 61. He is also involved in many industrial projects, amongst others, with TotalEnergies, Evonik Industries, UPM, Novartis, and Carbon Recycling International. He is a recipient of the Pregl and Zois awards. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr. Tine Seljak, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Chair of Power Engineering, Laboratory for Heat and Power LTE, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tine-seljak-b4b29173\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Engineer in the field of process and energy sciences, working on fundamental and applied research related to alternative and renewable fuels, thermochemical conversion processes, and the optimization and management of local material-energy systems.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Based on technical, applied results, his research extends to energy and environmental policy dimensions. Recently, he contributed to establishing the Framework to monitor transition to circular economy. He was involved in projects supporting the decarbonization of multi-energy systems, energy-intensive industries, regional energy system decarbonization, and recovery of critical raw materials.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr. Edin Laki\u0107, Head of the Department for Sustainable Energy Solutions at the Institute for Innovation and Development of the University of Ljubljana (IRI UL), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/edin-lakic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>He obtained both his BSc and PhD from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, where he works as a Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Energy Policy (LEST).<\/em><br \/>\n<em>His research and professional work cover smart power grids, renewable energy integration, electricity market operation, energy storage systems, energy efficiency, and energy economics. He is actively involved in preparing project proposals and in numerous European projects funded under the LIFE, H2020, Horizon Europe, and Innovation Fund programmes.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CONTENT OF THE MODULES: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Webinar 1<\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">: Presentation of the call, January 27, 2026, 9:00 &#8211; 11:00<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tender requirements<\/li>\n<li>Evaluation criteria<\/li>\n<li>Examples of successful projects<\/li>\n<li>Alternative funding options<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><strong>Webinar 2: Overview of the application, February 4, 2026, 9.00 &#8211; 11.00<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>State of the art<\/li>\n<li>Work packages<\/li>\n<li>Maturity of the project (technical, operational, financial)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTips and tricks\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Webinar 3: Project potential, February 9, 2026, 9.00 &#8211; 11.00<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Financial modelling<\/li>\n<li>Financial information file<\/li>\n<li>Business model<\/li>\n<li>GHG emissions calculator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>PRICE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u20ac450 + VAT<\/p>\n<p>The price includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Presentations from each module,<\/li>\n<li>Individual consultation with the potential applicant for a duration of 30 minutes upon request to the organiser.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The seminar will be organised if at least 8 applicants apply. Each applicant receives a link to MS Teams after successful application and payment. <strong>The application form is available <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/E7WQPk42oQvf6H2k8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We invite potential applicants to the Innovation Fund call to attend a series of three webinars that are designed to help you prepare for the upcoming calls. The course will be hosted by experienced project managers and experts in the field of sustainability, chemical engineering, and energy management: Nina Megli\u010d, Director of ACT-SI, LinkedIn More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/act-si.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/act-si.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/act-si.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/act-si.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/act-si.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/act-si.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/act-si.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/act-si.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/act-si.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/act-si.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/act-si.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}