During the two day meeting two exchange study visits were organized. For the first partners were invited to Hella Saturnus Slovenia –– producer for lighting technology and electronics for the automotive industry. Mr. Christof Droste, general director of Hella Saturnus Slovenia presented the company and some interesting facts about company. Later on the project partners of AUTOCLUSTERS had a chance to see the production facilities where directors of marketing, quality, development and production departments presented different processes in the company.
Furthermore the second exchange study visit was being organized at the University of Ljubljana - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering presented their R&D capacities and experiences with cooperation on numerous different projects with mainly large companies from Slovenia and abroad. Partners have been invited to see the laboratories as well as projects created and leaded by their students. The soundest project presented was the car developed fully by the students of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering from the base donated by Peugeot.
First day of the meeting the international press conference was being organized which was attended by important representatives of public media, newspapers, radio as well as one commercial TV. Press conference also confirmed its success by several press releases in the upcoming days.
Project meeting generally aimed at exchanging of the information between Project Partners with the participation of other relevant stakeholders, interest groups and beneficiaries. On the other hand project partners discussed all project related issues, such as management and coordination tasks, project activities and took decisions about the ongoing activities in different work packages
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