Training and lifelong learning
Alongside its degree programs, FVO offers certified training for professionals, tailored seminars for companies, and talks and workshops for the public.
Certified training
Specialist in Sustainable Siting of Renewable Energy Projects
The program consists of 20 teaching hours over three consecutive days, four modules, and a final exam leading to certification. It covers the full process of siting energy facilities, from spatial planning and environmental assessments to permits, project management and funding.
Four modules
Fundamentals of energy efficiency and renewable energy
Energy efficiency and renewable energy sources in the energy transition.
Construction and spatial planning law
The legal framework and procedures for siting facilities.
EU policy, EU funding and project management
Funding opportunities and project management from concept to implementation.
Development activities and environmental impact assessment
Slovenian legislation, climate resilience and the Do No Significant Harm (DNSH) principle.
Who should attend: Graduates with a first-cycle degree in civil engineering, surveying, architecture, landscape architecture, geography, environmental protection, law or a related field, and vocational college graduates with at least three yearsβ experience in renewable energy and energy efficiency.
What you will learn: How to prepare documentation for preliminary screening, conduct and report an environmental impact assessment, and develop a facility siting proposal.
Next training session
The 2026 session took place at FVO from September 22 to 24 as part of the SAΕ A Just Transition Academy (SAΕ A Development Agency). The Just Transition Fund covered the cost, so participants attended free of charge. Priority was given to applicants from the SAΕ A region. Interested in the next session? Email info@fvo.si; we will post the call under Events.
For businesses, professionals and the public
Seminars, talks and workshops
Life cycle assessment and carbon footprinting, environmental impact assessment, microplastics and wildlife population management. In 2025, we ran a seminar for Unior d. d. and worked with Bureau Veritas to deliver seminars for several companies.
In December 2025, we co-organized a seminar on wild mammal monitoring and citizen science with the University of Ljubljanaβs Biotechnical Faculty.
Lifelong Learning Weeks, Researchersβ Day, Velenje Presents Itself, and talks, workshops and exhibitions at the faculty.
Science days, workshops on microplastics and soil, summer schools and online resources.
Contact
Training and public events
Faculty of Environmental Protection
Trg mladosti 7
3320 Velenje
Seminars for companies
GaΕ‘per Gantar, PhD, Assistant Professor
Director of FVO
Last updated: October 2026
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