On October 7, 2021, the Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry (LSIWC) hosted researchers from the Slovenian Renewable Materials and Healthy Environments Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence InnoRenew CoE: David DeVallance, PhD, Laetitia Marrot, PhD, Marica Mikuljan, and Jaka Gašper Pečnik. The Centre was established in 2017 as the activity of the Framework programme Horizon 2020 Teaming project, co-operating 9 Slovenian scientific institutions and the German Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research – Wilhelm Klauditz Institute (WKI), co-ordinator - University of Primorska. The visit started with a seminar. The visitors introduced their Centre of Excellence and its scientific research, and were informed about LSIWC and the scientific research done at LSIWC, the LSIWC’s infrastructure, and possible scientific co-operation (considering the epidemiological situation, part of the LSIWC’s researchers followed the seminar in the Zoom platform):

The guests also visited LSIWC’s laboratories and talked with LSIWC’s researchers; possible scientific co-operation was discussed: