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
September 27, 2022 – The third international conference on sustainability and socially responsible business “Podržimo održivo 2022” (eng. Let’s support sustainable 2022), organized by the Croatian Chamber of Economy (HGK), with Oikon as one of the partners, took place today in Zagreb under the motto “Together for a more resilient future“. The central theme of … Continued
September 19, 2022 – The 5th European and Regional Conference on Environmental Impact Assessment titled “Environmental assessments and the European Green Deal ’22”, organized by the Croatian Association of Nature and Environment Professionals (HUSZPO), with OIKON as the main sponsor, took place 14th – 17th September 2022 in Vodice, Croatia. It is the most important … Continued
September 6, 2022 – we are delighted to introduce a new member of the Oikon team – Ana Brkljačić, PhD, who will contribute to our numerous conservation projects and field research as a Senior Associate employed at our Department of Nature Protection and Landscape Architecture. Ana Brkljačić graduated as a Biological engineer from the Faculty … Continued
August 31, 2022 – On July 28, 2022, the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education appointed Ivan Tomljenović, PhD, our remote sensing expert employed at Oikon, as the official representative of the Republic of Croatia in the Horizon Europe Programme Committee in the area of Digitization, Industry and Space (including related missions and partnerships). As … Continued
July 25, 2022 – Everyone knows that the Great Wall of China can be seen from space, but did you know that the Pelješac Bridge in Croatia can also be seen from space? 😊 Here’s how the Copernicus program’s Sentinel-2 system has been monitoring the construction of one of the largest and most important infrastructure … Continued
July 20, 2022 – The catastrophic fire that hit the Šibenik area and the hinterland of Vodice and Zaton last week, causing great material damage, was finally extinguished two days ago, after six days of intense effort by our brave firefighters with the help of the army, police and civil defence. Our team of experts … Continued