Entrepeneurship workshop for early-career researchers organized between ROMANDIC and U7 – Office for Substantive Project Support, Technology Transfer and Innovation, organized on September 18th 2025, drew a full house of participants.
Author: Andrej Gams
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Strategic foresight workshop
We are organizing a strategic foresight workshop titled “Robotska manipulacija deformabilnih objektov v pametni tovarni” on October 13th, 2025, at the Main lecture room at JSI.
The event will be in Slovenian language.
More about the event here and (here).
The event is free for all participants, but registration before October 6th is required. Please check the event webpages listed above.
Together with JSI’s U7 – Office for Substantive Project Support, Technology Transfer and Innovation we are organizing an entrepreneurship workshop for early-career researchers.
The event, meant for PhD students and early career researchers, will take place on September 18th, at the Electronics lecture room, Teslova 30, Ljubljana (1st floor).
The event is titled How do I prepare a good business model and present (pitch) my invention?
More about the event here.
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Visit of a student from Barcelona at JSI
A new ROMANDIC project milestone has been reached with the start of the visit of Mahed Dadgostar from IRI – Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC at Jozef Stefan Institute.
During the month-long secondment, we will work on learning of dynamic handling of textiles.
We are co-organizing the “5th workshop on RObotic MAnipulation of Deformable Objects: holistic approaches and challenges forward” in the scope of IROS 2025.
The workshop will be held on Monday morning, October 20, 2025 in Hangzhou, China, in the scope of IROS 2025!
We welcome submission of extended abstracts by September 20, 2025! See Call For Abstracts for details.
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ROMANDIC cloth simulator tutorial
Colleagues from CSIC, specifically Franco Coltaro, presented their cloth simulator, developed within the Clothilde project, called the Clothilde simulator, see here and here.
In this online tutorial the simulator itself, its properties, and the usage were presented, followed by an extensive debate.
Thanks Franco!
A workshop on the topic of the organization an help of project offices in order to support researchers was held in Sitges, Barcelona, on June 12th and 13th. In two days of discussions and presentations partners from JSI, CSIC and KIT presented their project offices.
The participation of people from the project offices is what made this event special, as hands-on experience and organizational structures, ideas, gender aspect and outlooks were shared by the people really working in these fields.
Thanks to CSIC for the great organization and an insightful event in a very picturesque location!
We presented our work to a delegation from the German federal state Baden-Württemberg, led by Dr Patric Rapp, its State Secretary at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Tourism. Besides other demos, we showed the textile handling demo.
Photo credit: Marjan Verč, IJS.
We showcased our work at the 2025 JSI open door day! Many visitors got to see our unfolding demo.
