ZAVOD E-OBLAK POSLOVNE IN RAZISKOVALNE DEJAVNOSTI

Their core work

Zavod E-Oblak is a small Slovenian research institute based in Ljubljana that participated in both phases of the InnoRenew Centre of Excellence — a Horizon 2020 initiative to build a dedicated research hub for renewable building materials and healthy indoor environments in Slovenia. Their involvement is structured as coordination and support activities (CSA funding scheme) rather than primary research grants, indicating a role in knowledge management, project administration, or specialized technical services within the consortium. The projects they support bridge material science — wood and other bio-based building materials — with human health and ergonomic outcomes in the built environment, a specific niche within sustainable construction. The institute's name referencing cloud and digital services suggests potential ICT or data management capabilities that complement the research infrastructure they support.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

This organization's entire H2020 profile is defined by a single multi-year engagement: the InnoRenew Centre of Excellence, run in two sequential phases from 2015 to 2023. The first phase (2015-2016) was a preparatory teaming step with no recorded keywords, likely focused on consortium building and feasibility planning. The second phase (2017-2023) brought the full thematic scope into view — renewable resources, ergonomic design, living laboratories, and human well-being in built environments — showing maturation from infrastructure setup toward substantive research activity. There is no evidence of diversification beyond this single programme.

Their entire H2020 footprint is tied to one Centre of Excellence build-up; future collaborations would fit best within renewable materials, healthy buildings, or living laboratory methodology — particularly projects with a Widening Participation or research capacity dimension.

How they like to work

Zavod E-Oblak has participated exclusively as a consortium partner — never as project coordinator — across both of its H2020 projects. With only 9 unique partners across 2 countries, their network is narrow and consistent with a small institute tightly integrated into one specific research initiative rather than operating as a broad collaboration hub. This profile suggests they work best as a specialist contributor within an established consortium, not as an independent project initiator.

Their collaboration footprint covers 9 unique partners across just 2 countries, both arising from involvement in the InnoRenew CoE project. Geographic reach is essentially bilateral — anchored in Slovenia with one additional partner country from that consortium.

What sets them apart

Zavod E-Oblak occupies a specific niche at the intersection of renewable bio-based building materials, ergonomic design, and measurable human well-being outcomes in indoor environments — a combination that few small institutes explicitly combine. Their sustained involvement across both phases of InnoRenew CoE (eight years, 2015-2023) gives them deep institutional knowledge of that research programme, its methodology, and its partner network. For a consortium building in sustainable construction or healthy buildings with a Widening Participation component, they bring both domain familiarity and established relationships within the Slovenian research ecosystem.

Highlights from their portfolio

• InnoRenew CoE
  The full implementation phase (2017-2023, EUR 288,750) is the primary project defining this organization — a Horizon 2020 Centre of Excellence for renewable materials and healthy environments, one of the most significant capacity-building investments in Slovenian research infrastructure.
• InnoRenew CoE (Phase 1)
  The preparatory teaming phase (2015-2016) shows the organization was part of the founding consortium before the CoE secured full Horizon 2020 funding, confirming long-term commitment to this research direction.