Moderator
Nataša Jager Radin
National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Department of Materials Chemistry
Nataša Jager Radin is working as PR of the Institute, taking care on the important news,
social media and related issues. She will manage the publicity of the EAT-circular results,
and help to organize learning events. Financial and accounting support.
Speakers
Maja Marinček
Public Procurement Directorate - Ministry of Public Administration
Maja Marinček has been working in the Public Procurement System Sector at the Public Procurement Directorate at the Ministry of Public Administration since 2005. She participates in the regulations on the field of public procurement, interprets public procurement legislation and advises in the field of public procurement within the Customer Support Unit, using the so-called help board. Prior to her employment at the Ministry of Public Administration, she advised for 10 years in the preparation and implementation of public procurement system.
Tatjana Orhini Valjavec
Directorate for the Environment - Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning
Tatjana Orhini Valjavec works at the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, in the Directorate for the Environment. She is the national contact point for the European LIFE program for the environment, where she covers horizontal environmental content, in particular the circular economy, environmental labels, EMAS and green public procurement. In the LIFE IP project CARE4CLIMATE, she leads the team working with green public procurement.
Jana Ramuš
Independent consultant - Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia
Mag. Jana Ramuš is an independent consultant in the field of ensuring food safety at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia and a leading auditor for the IFS standard at Bureau Veritas Slovenia. Recently, she has been intensively dealing with the public procurement of food. She is also the co-author of the online tool "Food Catalog for Public Procurement", which transforms public procurement into a simple, transparent and efficient system.
Mojca Gabrijelčič Blenkuš
Medical doctor, PhD in social sciences, and a specialist of public health
Dr. Mojca Gabrijelčič Blenkuš is a medical doctor, PhD in social sciences, and a specialist of public health. She is involved in policy and health programme development, and in research projects. She participated in the assessment of the health impacts of agriculture and nutrition policies in Slovenia, with a special emphasis on assessing the impact of Slovenia to EU and health equity. She coordinated the working group for the preparation of the national nutrition and health enhancing physical activity strategy for 2015-25. She has been actively involved in the WHO action networks on nutrition and inequalities since 2008.
Marta Klanjšek Gunde
National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Department of Materials Chemistry
Dr. Marta Klanjšek Gunde is a researcher at the Institute of Chemistry, Department of Materials Chemistry. Currently she is devoted to new materials for the smart temperature control. She also leads the EAT-CIRCULAR project at the Institute.
Lara Habič
Directorate for the Environment, Sector of Waste - Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning
Lara Habič works at the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, on the Directorate for the Environment, the Sector of Waste. Initially, she was involved in reducing the consumption of lightweight plastic carrier bags, then she participated in the preparing of a transnational strategy on eco-innovation in material and waste streams, with a focus on waste recovery for the Danube area. The LIFE IP CARE4CLIMATE project she covers the prevention and reduction of food waste in Slovenia.
Uroš Novak
Head of the research group for Sustainable Processes and Products - Department of Catalysis
Dr. Uroš Novak is the head of the research group for Sustainable Processes and Products at the Department of Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering at the National Institute of Chemistry. As the coordinator of the BioApp platform, he establishes a sustainable flow of knowledge about biopolymers and helps with the appropriate development of services for the needs of the food, cosmetics and healthcare industries. He is the co-founder of the innovative start-up company 123zero Ltd., which brought to the market sustainable shampoos without packaging for accommodation providers. With this idea, in 2019 they were also finalists in the EU Social Innovation competition.
Alenka Hren
Public agency SPIRIT Slovenia
Alenka Hren, a graduate in management, political science and French at DePauw University Indiana in the USA, is employed by the public agency SPIRIT Slovenia, where she leads a program to promote the development of entrepreneurship with social effects and re-innovate business processes and models. Since 2016, she has been leading the national program of sustainable strategic transformation of companies.
