Scientists, students, local inhabitants, farmers
Public – State of Slovenia
The Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Maribor is a scientific and educational institution. As a university member, the faculty represents the progress of science in many fields of agriculture resulting in a good bibliography (high‐impact original scientific papers, conference contributions and patents).
The faculty is located in the centre of the most important agricultural region in Slovenia, facilitates a good combination of theory and practice and enables the application of academic knowledge to practical work. Part of the research and educational activities of the Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences are carried out at the university’s agricultural centre. It is located at the foot of Pohorje, about 12 km from Maribor and covers:
- 55 ha of fruit tree plantation
- 60 ha of fields
- 18 ha of vineyards at Meranovo
- 22 ha of grasslands
- 240 ha of forests
- 8 ha of botanical garden area
These areas are used for research and for the practical work of about 700 students and 70 members of teaching staff.
The Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences has numerous accredited undergraduate and postgraduate study programmes.
- Close to Maribor, the second largest Slovenian city
- Students have possibilities to work on fields, they can practice in their own orchards, greenhouse, animal house, vineyard
- Lots of research and innovation works
- Has a lot of Erasmus programs
- Is connected with lots of European universities
- It is in league with successful universities around the world
- Research activates play an important part of the daily activities conducted at the faculty, including emerging technologies such as agricultural robotics, biosystems Engineering, conducting a series of research activities, producing a state-of-the-art approaches, such as the new SLAM algoritm Research activities also include the development of a small field robots build for research and educational purposes.
- For the past 10 years the department has been an active member of the Field Robot Event, achieving multiple top place positions
(FRE2011 – 3rdOverall, FRE2012 –1st place – Freestyle, FRE2014 – 3rdplace – Basic Navigation …).
Connecting university knowledge, student and teacher’s research and work on fields and transmitting the knowledge to local inhabitants and farmers has great results.