Award ceremony for Herfried Lammer

DI Herfried Lammer receives the award "for a significant contribution to the development of the faculty". DI Herfried Lammer is the head of the unit of the leading research institute in the field of wood and wood-related renewable resources in Europe - Kompetenzzentrum Holz GmbH. DI Herfried Lammer has been working with the Faculty of Polymer Technology for more than 10 years. The first contacts were established in 2012 in the framework of the Polyregion project, and cooperation was strengthened with the application and implementation of the first joint project entitled START CIRCLES - Support for the transition from linear to circular value chains, which was implemented between 2018 and 2021 within Interreg Slovenia-Austria cooperation program. During this period, numerous visits and joint promotions of our services were carried out in Slovenia and Austria. In 2022, FTPO was invited to as many as two large consortia to submit projects to the Horizon Europe tenders, of which the DeremCo project is already being actively implemented. In 2023, FTPO and the Kompetenzzentrum Holz institute developed the idea and applied for the ADDCIRCLES project, within the framework of the Interreg call for the Slovenia-Austria 2021-2027 program, and jointly entered the consortium for applying the DIGIPRO project. Due to his active support and exemplary cooperation, DI Herfried Lammer is recognized for his significant contribution to the development of the Faculty of Polymer Technology.