March 20, 2023 – CLC+ Backbone is the largest European land cover monitoring project tendered by the EEA, worth as much as 10 million euros, in which Oikon participated as part of a pan-European team of experts. The CLC+ package of products and applications is a new generation of the CORINE Land Cover System, consisting … Continued
March 13, 2023 – our associate Lovro Turkalj successfully completed the European Green Activist Training (EGAT), a project organized by the Green European Foundation (GEF) in cooperation with the association Sustainable Development Forum Green Window. The goal of the project was to introduce participants to green topics (climate change, biodiversity and environmental protection, human rights and … Continued
February 20, 2023 – Last Friday, masqueraders took over the company’s keys and held a traditional costume party. Leaving aside just a few of the evening’s “buzz killers”, it is clear that most of us take this kind of entertainment very seriously. 🙂 As befits a serious scientific institute, the party began with a pub … Continued
February 17, 2023 – The 58th Croatian and 18th International Symposium on Agriculture (SA2023) and the International Summit on Renewable Energy (INSORE2023) were held in Dubrovnik from 11 to 17 February. OIKON was the gold sponsor of these events, whose main objective was to present and discuss possible solutions for implementing climate-friendly innovations, renewable energy … Continued
Another exciting year lies behind us. It has gone by very quickly for us and we are glad to have ended it healthy, happy and successful. We hope it has been the same for you too. 😊 We have to admit that last year was just as challenging as the previous ones. Fortunately, we got … Continued
December 16, 2022 – December is the season when we all get into the Christmas spirit, enjoy Christmas songs, smells and tastes of Christmas cookies, and decorate our offices because we at Oikon take Christmas seriously 😊. So seriously, that for the second year in a row we are organizing a competition for the most … Continued
November 15, 2022 – This year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP27 – is being held November 6-18, 2022 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, with more than 90 heads of state and representatives of 190 countries expected to attend. 🌍 Alida Ban Pavlović, Head of our Department of Environmental Law, Policy and Economics, is … Continued
October 11, 2022 – Oikon has established a new laboratory – the Laboratory for Biodiversity and Population Genetics, which began operations this month. One of the goals of the laboratory is to contribute to the compilation of DNA barcodes of known and newly discovered plant and animal species, to increase the level of knowledge about … Continued
October 5, 2022 – As part of the 14th Conference on Sustainable Development held in Zagreb on October 4-5, 2022, our head of the Department of Nature Protection and Landscape Architecture and sustainable development expert, Andreja Pavlović, moderated a panel discussion on Cross-cutting and Governance Standards for Sustainability Reporting (CSRD framework). During the panel discussion, she focused … Continued