On Friday, September 19, 2025, the Social Impact Award program came to a festive conclusion in Ljubljana, where the winning projects of the fifth generation of the program in Slovenia, aimed at developing entrepreneurial ideas with a social and environmental impact, were announced.
Luka Radi\u010devi\u0107, a young researcher at the Institute of Economic Research, also participated in this year's program, acting as a mentor to four teams and as a member of the expert jury that evaluated the final projects. As part of the closing event, together with Ana Belac, Executive Director of Impact Hub Ljubljana, he also presented the community award, which reflects the wider public's support for the projects in the program.
The Social Impact Award Slovenia, organized by the Slovenian Youth Agency, has been supporting young people in developing entrepreneurial solutions to current social and environmental challenges for five years, contributing to the development of an inclusive and sustainability-oriented entrepreneurial ecosystem in Slovenia. The participation of IER representatives in a mentoring and evaluation role strengthens the connection between research knowledge and practice and supports the development of entrepreneurship with social impact.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
V petek, 19. septembra 2025, je v Ljubljani potekal slavnostni zaklju\u010dek programa Social Impact Award, na kateri so bili razgla\u0161eni zmagovalni projekti pete generacije programa v Sloveniji, namenjenega razvoju podjetni\u0161kih idej z dru\u017ebenim in okoljskim u\u010dinkom. Pri leto\u0161nji izvedbi programa je sodeloval tudi Luka Radi\u010devi\u0107, mladi raziskovalec In\u0161tituta za ekonomska raziskovanja, in sicer v vlogi mentorja \u0161tirim ekipam ter kot \u010dlan strokovne \u017eirije, ki je ocenjevala finalne projekte. V okviru zaklju\u010dnega dogodka je skupaj z Ano Belac, izvr\u0161no direktorico Impact Hub Ljubljana, podelil tudi nagrado skupnosti, ki odra\u017ea podporo \u0161ir\u0161e javnosti projektom v programu. Social Impact Award Slovenia, ki ga organizira Slovenska agencija za mlade, \u017ee pet let podpira mlade pri razvoju podjetni\u0161kih re\u0161itev za aktualne dru\u017ebene in okoljske izzive ter prispeva k razvoju vklju\u010dujo\u010dega in trajnostno usmerjenega podjetni\u0161kega ekosistema v Sloveniji. Sodelovanje predstavnikov IER v mentorski in ocenjevalni vlogi krepi povezovanje raziskovalnega znanja s prakso ter podpira razvoj podjetni\u0161tva z dru\u017ebenimi vplivi.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-10731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novice","tag-149"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-17 12:58:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ier.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ier.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ier.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ier.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ier.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ier.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10733,"href":"https:\/\/www.ier.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10731\/revisions\/10733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ier.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ier.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ier.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ier.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}