June 10, 2025 – Last week we held our traditional celebration of Oikon and Pro silva Day – DOPS – in a relaxed and cheerful atmosphere. It was a chance to connect outdoors, away from the office, with music, food, social and sports games, and plenty of laughter, stories, and positive energy. The highlight of … Continued
June 3, 2025 – Marking Sava River Day (1 June), the 1st Stakeholder Forum and the 1st Forum on Women-Headed Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in tourism were held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, as part of the development of the Master Plan for Sustainable Tourism Development in the Sava River Basin. The forums gathered stakeholders and … Continued
May 26, 2025 – The largest Croatian conference on renewable energy, Dani OIE, was held in Split from May 21 to 23. Organized by the Renewable Energy Sources of Croatia (RES Croatia), the conference gathered over 400 participants from 19 countries, including representatives from government, industry, finance, law, consulting, science, and other expert fields. The … Continued
May 20, 2025 – Oikon team participated in the “New Capabilities and Countries in European Space Conference”, organised by the European Space Agency (ESA). The conference was held on 14–15 May at ESA’s Centre for Earth Observation (ESRIN) in Frascati, Italy. Our representatives, Dr. Ivan Tomljenović, Dr. Ivan Tekić, Bruno Ćaleta, and Luka Raspović, actively … Continued
May 16, 2025 – Dr. Jelena Mlinarec Novosel, Head of Oikon’s Laboratory for Biodiversity and Population Genetics, took part in the UKDNA 2025 Conference, hosted by the Royal Society in London on 13–14 May 2025. The event brought together policymakers, researchers, service providers, and end-users to explore the use of DNA-based methods in environmental monitoring … Continued
May 13, 2025 – We are very proud to announce that our team achieved the highest score in the first machine learning GeoHab 2025 MLWG Competition. This global competition aimed to promote machine learning in benthic habitat mapping, build consensus on best practices, and provide benchmark datasets for future research. The task was to develop … Continued
May 12, 2025 – we are proud to have co-organised the successful hybrid workshop “Data-Driven Framework for Sustainable Offshore Wind Development,” held under the sponsorship of the Australian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (ACOWE). Oikon partnered with the University of Melbourne and Deakin University to deliver this high-impact event, which brought together key Australian stakeholders … Continued
April 7, 2025, Patras, Greece – We participated in the 9th European Congress of Mammalogy (ECM9), held from March 31 to April 4, 2025, in Patras, Greece. The congress gathered around 260 experts from 41 countries and featured 150 oral and 98 poster presentations. The presented research covered various topics in ecology, genetics, conservation biology, … Continued
March 13, 2025 – Oikon’s team of experts has recently published an important study in the esteemed journal Environmental DNA. Led by Dr. Jelena Mlinarec, head of Oikon’s Laboratory for Biodiversity and Population Genetics, the research was conducted in collaboration with Dr. Ida Svetličić, Matija Kresonja, Matea Rubinić, Tonko Megyery, Ivana Kaliger, and Dominik Mihaljević. … Continued