Center of Excellence for Information and Communication Technologies (CoE ICT) Prof. dr. Andrej Kos Prof. dr. Janez Bešter UL Faculty of Electrical Engineering Ljubljana,

2 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of EE University of Ljubljana founded in 1919 consists of 22 Faculties & 3 Academies employs approx. 6,000 students approx. 56,000 Faculty of Electrical Engineering students approx. 2,500 employs approx. 300

3 Research on Faculty of Electrical Engineering Research projects are of different types, mostly depending on the source of funding projects that are fully funded by national or EU budged projects that are fully funded by companies many variations in between Turnover of the Faculty 20 mio Euro 50 % comes from the education 50 % comes from research projects This is the highest ratio of budget coming from industry research projects among members within University of Ljubljana the goal is to further increase research founds from industry and other non-public resources to more than 50 % EU 6. FW, 7. FW Structural funds

4 Faculty of Electrical Engineering budget

5 Regional innovation environment CoE ICT

Centers of Excelence Center of Excelence (CoE) is defined as a high quality multidisciplinary group of researchers both from academic and business spheres, combining critical mass of knowledge and adequate research infrastructure for potential breakthrough of the centre onto the top of world science or into international networks of excellence Center of Excellence for Information and Communication Technologies (CoE ICT) 6

CoE ICT partners (26) 7

CoE ICT regional cooperation Slovenia as a Living Lab 8

CoE ICT global cooperation 9

CeE ICT Projects

Indicators 26 partners Funding EUR Results strongly outperform the received funds CoE ICT is a very good investment New projects for the period More ambitious in terms of goals and funds 11

Results – Multimedia + Innovation 12

Results – Scientific Excellence 13

Results – Next Generation Televison 14

15 Results – Broadband networks

CoE ICT partners (27+8) 16

CeE ICT Projects

CoE ICT Projects

Future - Technology Design Center 19 Creative innovative environment based on project work regional, national and international cooperation entrepreneur way of thinking interdisciplinary postgraduate program open minded & design thinking regionally distributed converged infrastructure knowledge transfer with results directly applicable in industry

20 TDC – Regional interdisciplinarity

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