1. Center of Excellence for Information and Communication Technologies (CoE ICT) Prof. dr. Andrej Kos Prof. dr. Janez Bešter UL Faculty of Electrical Engineering Ljubljana, 16.9.2009

2. 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. 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. 4 Faculty of Electrical Engineering budget

5. 5 Regional innovation environment CoE ICT

6. 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

7. CoE ICT 2004-2007 partners (26) 7

8. CoE ICT regional cooperation Slovenia as a Living Lab 8

9. CoE ICT global cooperation 9

10. CeE ICT Projects 2004-2007 10

11. Indicators 26 partners Funding1.467.903 EUR Results strongly outperform the received funds CoE ICT is a very good investment New projects for the period 2009-2013 More ambitious in terms of goals and funds 11

12. Results – Multimedia + Innovation 12

13. Results – Scientific Excellence 13

14. Results – Next Generation Televison 14

15. 15 Results – Broadband networks

16. CoE ICT 2009-2013 partners (27+8) 16

17. CeE ICT Projects 2009-2013 17

18. CoE ICT Projects 2009-2013 18

19. 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. 20 TDC – Regional interdisciplinarity

21. Thank you! Thank you! 21