Cooperation opportunities
We offer companies, municipalities, agencies and other organisations several ways to work with us, from commissioned expert studies and joint projects to student work placements and staff training. As a smaller faculty, we can tailor the scope and process to your needs.
Ways to work with us
How can we work together?
These options can also be combined. For example, a project may lead to a student placement or final thesis.
Life cycle assessments and carbon footprints, environmental reports and studies, biomonitoring and microplastics analysis.
Partnerships in ARIS and CRP projects and the Horizon Europe, Biodiversa+, Interreg, LIFE and Erasmus+ programmes.
A third-year student completes a 400-hour placement with your organisation. Bachelorβs and masterβs theses address practical questions faced by companies and municipalities.
The Career Centre publishes your job and placement opportunities. We can organise a seminar for your staff, arrange student field visits to your organisation, or invite you to lecture as a guest expert.
For employers
Host a student on placement
Practical training is a compulsory part of the third year of the undergraduate Environmental Protection and Ecotechnologies programme. It comprises 400 hours or 50 working days, following the same working hours as your employees. Students earn 20 ECTS credits after defending their placement report.
Agreement
FVO, your organisation and the student sign three copies of an agreement prepared by the Practical Training Coordinator.
Training programme
Your organisation prepares the programme based on the competencies students develop during their studies (listed in the annex to the agreement).
Workplace mentor
A member of your staff guides the student, assesses their work and completes the certificate of practical training.
Academic mentor from FVO
The student chooses an academic mentor, who reviews the project assignment and takes part in its defence.
Documents for placement providers
How do we get started?
For services and client projects, contact the Director; for research projects, the Dean; and for placements and job advertisements, the Career Centre. If you are unsure, email info@fvo.si. Following an initial discussion, we prepare a quotation for services, identify a funding call and submit a joint application for development ideas, or prepare a placement agreement. See examples of our work in our references.
Contact
Services and client projects
GaΕ‘per Gantar, PhD, Assistant Professor
Director of FVO
Research partnerships
BoΕ‘tjan Pokorny, PhD, Full Professor
Dean of FVO
Placements and employment
Lea KomeriΔki Kotnik
Practical Training Coordinator, Career Centre
Last updated: October 2026
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