Previous Courses – Course BEST Ljubljana

Autumn 2022 | Adapting the education system: The Asynchronous way

11 September 2022 - 19 September 2022

Event on Education

Learning goals and objectives:

The BSE will explore the concept of Asynchronous Education, and what it actually means to students while discussing some advantages and improvement points of this approach.

Will also tackle which activities will be most effective if performed online permanently, and which will be most effective if conducted in person.

Content and topics:

The main goal of this event is to hear the European students of STEM in a safe environment, where they can use their voices to talk about their past experiences and their thoughts regarding Asynchronous Education. We’ll focus on some points of view of the acceptable concept of Asynchronous Education for the students while discussing it with some experts in this field.

In addition, the participants will get the opportunity to work on their soft skills such as public speaking, teamwork, communication, feedback, academic discussion, debating, and project development among others.

Summer 2020 | The Rise of Electric Vehicles - IoT based charging systems

27 July 2020 - 03 August 2020

Academic Course on Technology

Learning goals and objectives:

The aim of the course is for participants to get better knowledge about building an IoT based communication network and its building blocks. These topics will be explored through the implementation of a power charging system for electric vehicles. Participants will use their gained knowledge to build a working model composed of charging stations and electric vehicles, connected by a decentralized communication system. It will be used as a testing ground where participants can implement innovative solutions and tackle the lack of charging stations for electric vehicles.

Content and topics:

During the course you will have lectures, company visit and project work addressing the following topics: electric vehicles, charging systems, IoT development, smart urban development.

Summer 2019 | Change me baby one more time

10 July 2019 - 17 July 2019

Academic Course on Technology

Learning goals and objectives:

The aim is for students to get to know the basics of genetic mechanisms and possibilities new technologies bring in modifying organisms. The focus of genetic modification will be on several organisms in relevance to some of the modern methods. With the knowledge provided, students will have a better understanding of what future of genome editing could look like.

Content and topics:

During the course there will be addressed the following topics: cell’s genetic mechanisms, traditional and modern methods of genome editing, CRISPR/Cas9 method, genetically modified organisms (GMO).

Summer 2018 | Technology, take the wheel!

11 July 2018 - 18 July 2018

Academic Course on Technology

Learning goals and objectives:

The aim is that participants get to understand how autonomous car works, how advanced the is the technology already and some moral dilemmas implemented in programing of such cars. With the knowledge provided, students can have a better understanding how future transportation will look like.

Content and topics:

During the course there will be addressed the following topics: Communication between autonomous cars and pedestrians, how autonomous cars perceive information from real world, how they navigate and what this kind of technology brings us in the future.

Summer 2017 | Always look on the light side of life

12 July 2017 - 19 July 2017

Academic Course on Technology

Learning goals and objectives:

The aim is that participants get to understand the "way of light", where can it be found, and how they and other living beings around the world use it. With the knowledge provided, students can build smaller projects using electronic elements that use light (LED lights, lasers).

Content and topics:

During the course there will be addressed the following topics: Common usage of light in electrical engineering, the importance of light pollution, how some animals use bioluminescence, and how can we apply this knowledge in engineering.

Summer 2016 | Your couch likes your microwave's status update

13 July 2016 - 20 July 2016

Academic Course on Technology

Learning goals and objectives:

Students will gain an understanding of the topics mentioned through theoretical lectures and company visits.

Content and topics:

The use of modern technology in our lives with the help of sensors. Connecting devices to one another. Working with modern equipment.

Summer 2015 | BIOhemian Rhapsody

17 July 2015 - 24 July 2015

Academic Course on Technology

Learning goals and objectives:

Students will gain an understanding of the topics mentioned through theoretical lectures and company visits.

Content and topics:

Biotechnology
Genetic engineering
Cloning

Summer 2014 | BEST and Furious: Drive Me Crazy, From Carriage to a Supercar

11 July 2014 - 20 July 2014

Academic Course on Technology

Learning goals and objectives:

Students will gain an understanding of the topics mentioned through theoretical lectures and company visits.

Content and topics:

Automotive industry
Development of cars through history
Eco-friendly engines and principles of operation
Passive and active safety systems
Different high technology features in modern cars

Summer 2013 | The Game Of Woods

12 July 2013 - 21 July 2013

Academic Course on Technology

Learning goals and objectives:

The course objective is to provide theoretical knowledge of 21st century wooden construction and wood itself, and at the end give participants to put all gained knowledge into the practice.

Content and topics:

The main thread of this course will be wooden construction, where we will touch on topics such as wood types, processing of wood, construction, and similar.

Summer 2012 | Put your Sport Gear ON & Boost your Health - the Olympic way!

13 July 2012 - 22 July 2012

Academic Course on Technology

Learning goals and objectives:

The course objective is to provide expertise on modern engineering products, medicine techniques, right nutrition,... which help professional athletes or common users to maximize their potential.

Content and topics:

We will focus on all aspects of Olympic games. Therefore we will discuss about healty nutritions, engineering products for athletes (prosthetics, aerodynamic dresses, other sport equipment,...), and medical aspect of the games (doping,..).

Summer 2011 | How I met my mother Earth?

08 July 2011 - 18 July 2011

Academic Course on Technology

Learning goals and objectives:

To promote a green way of life and to give insight in the methods of acquiring it.

Summer 2010 | Work virtually! Boost your career at student speed!

02 July 2010 - 13 July 2010

Event on Education

Summer 2009 | Dude, where is my energy?

10 July 2009 - 24 July 2009

Academic Course on Technology

Learning goals and objectives:

To promote green energy and give insight into the acquisition methods.

Content and topics:

The role and the future of renewable energy sources.

Spring 2008 | My name is house. Smart house. - Smart and passive house technologies

07 March 2008 - 15 March 2008

Academic Course on Technology

Learning goals and objectives:

To introduce you to smart and passive house technologies.

Content and topics:

A smart house is a home that is highly automated. When you come home from a working day it opens the door and greets you by turning on the lights. In the kitchen, your fridge informs you that you are missing a few ingredients from the recipe for tonight's dinner. It waters your plants and feeds your pets, while you're having holidays. Without you even knowing it, your dishwasher has detected an internal technical fault and has automatically requested maintenance assistance from its manufacturer. Some smart houses can even have ultra-low energy consumption; these homes are called passive houses.

Summer 2007 | Scan me if you can! Biomedical Engineering

13 July 2007 - 27 July 2007

Academic Course on Technology

Learning goals and objectives:

The main goals are to introduce you to the application of engineering science to biomedical problems.

Content and topics:

Biomedical engineering is the application of engineering principles and techniques to the medical field. It helps to improve patient health care and the quality of life of healthy individuals. Lectures will be about different fields of biomedical engineering. On one hand, you will learn how and where biomedical engineering is used and on the other hand, you will learn about different methods for curing cancer, medical imagining, clinical engineering, and electrotherapy. And of course about devices, which are intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease.

Summer 2006 | Crash Course 2006

08 July 2006 - 22 July 2006

Academic Course on Technology

Learning goals and objectives:

To get a glimpse of how the car industry works.

Content and topics:

Car industry

Spring 2006 | Careerology: The world after graduation

19 April 2006 - 26 April 2006

Course on Career-Related Skills

Learning goals and objectives:

To give students an insight into career life and to give them practical knowledge one needs to start a career.

Content and topics:

Careers and career-related skills.

Spring 2005: Access to higher education and undergraduate research

27 April 2005 - 02 May 2005

Event on Education

Learning goals and objectives:

Lead debates with specialists and present different views on both topics. Find new ways of enhancing the attractiveness of research to graduate students and illuminate possible solutions to the fee issue.

Content and topics:

1st topic: University fees

Throughout Europe, among the many problems that affect higher education today, the financing of universities is perhaps the most critical. Why is it that when the importance of education to a country's future national development has never been clearer, it is being considered a quasi-private good for which the individual students should pay? Shouldn't the funding of education continue to be primarily a government's responsibility?

2nd topic: Undergraduate research

We believe that research activity included at the undergraduate level not only encourages students to continue later with Ph.D. studies but also provides them with technical, communication, group, and research skills valuable for their education as tomorrow's engineers.