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As of June 30, 2025, the O2 Department of the Jožef Stefan Institute has successfully obtained two new Calibration and Measurement Capabilities (CMCs), bringing the total number of published CMCs to 32.

On 4 June 2026, the Slovenian national television programme Ugriznimo znanost aired a feature titled “Wastewater Treatment Plant Sludge: A Sewage Sludge Fertilisation Experiment”.

Join us from 15-19 June 2026 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, for an exciting week dedicated to analytical approaches for the detection of micro- and nanoplastics in the environment and food. 

The ELME Mobile Unit from the Jožef Stefan Institute participated in the Bogatajevi dnevi zaščite in reševanja 2026 (Bogataj Protection and Rescue Days), held from 21 to 23 May 2026, the largest Slovenian event in the field of disaster protection and rescue.

The Slovenian Office of Metrology marked Metrology Day 2026 on 20 May in Portorož, commemorating the 1875 signing of the Metre Convention in Paris, which established the foundations of the international measurement system and led to the creation of the BIPM.

You are invited to a public presentation lecture by Dr Oleg Travnikov entitled “Atmospheric Pollution Modelling: From Fundamental Research to International Environmental Policy.” The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 19 May at 9:00.

Researchers from the Department of Environmental Sciences (O2) have co-authored a new scientific article Online screening tool for precipitation stable isotopes records: hybrid distance/density based outlier filtering approach via interactive web application. The publication is the result of more than 10 years of collaboration with Hungarian colleagues in the field of isotope hydrology.

On Wednesday, 13 May 2026, the Department of Environmental Sciences (O2) will host an O2 Seminar featuring the presentation of the newly launched research project EQUINOISE.

We are happy to announce that a new Ion Chromatography (IC) system, the Dionex ICS-6000 HPIC System combined with an AS-DV Autosampler, is now fully operational at the Reactor Centre - O2 Department and supports routine environmental water analyses for daily research activities.

The Meteorological Synthesizing Centre – East (MSC-E), together with the Department of Environmental Sciences (O2), hosted the 27th annual meeting of the Task Force on Measurements and Modelling (TFMM), which took place in Bled, Slovenia, from 28-29 April 2026.

On April 22, 2026, in Vienna, David Kocman presented at the Economic and Environmental Committee (EEC) meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

The new European project REWASH is opening new pathways in the fight against microplastics—by developing technologies that not only remove them, but also transform them into compounds with potential for cancer treatment.