Science and Technology Centre Novo Mesto
Rudolfovo - Science and Technology Centre Novo mesto was established on 23 March 2022 by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia. The mission is to co-create, disseminate and transfer high-tech knowledge to partners in the economy. It does this by carrying out a multitude of industrial, applied and, more recently, fundamental projects.
Activities are thus geared towards the following objectives:
- creating an ecosystem of new small and medium-sized, highly innovative, high-technology-based enterprises that will provide the geographical area of south-eastern Slovenia with the necessary stability, quality jobs and economic prosperity based on high added value,
- supporting the business of existing large and medium-sized enterprises in the SEE region to innovate their products, services and processes in cooperation with researchers from the Rudolfovo JRZ, thereby increasing their competitiveness and added value,
- increasing public investment and the number of researchers in the SEE and the Eastern Slovenia Cohesion Region,
- supporting the green and digital transformation of the Slovenian economy and public sector,
- establishing a state-of-the-art research infrastructure in selected fields of activity, which will be the basis for knowledge transfer to the economy and the public sector,
- improving excellence in science,
- transfer knowledge to younger generations,
- inspiring young people to pursue STEM careers,
- cooperation with higher education organisations.
Research and development activities are reinforced by five research teams:
- Center for Advanced Technologies
- Centre for Digitalisation
- Centre for Circular Economy
- Centre for Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property
- Centre for Applied Quantum Computing
Role within QEC4QEA
Rudolfovo is involved in QEC4QEA as part of the cluster led by Jülich. It will primarily focus on WP3, contributing to the task on combinatorial optimization problems (e.g., graph coloring and maximum independent set), scheduling problems, and other applications (e.g., integer factorization problem). Rudolfovo will also co-develop performance measures to assess technology readiness levels and will contribute to talent generation by organizing a 5-day training event and introducing quantum computing topics into universities' master's programs across the EU.
