Meet and learn What Excellent science does FOR YOU and the society is the major focus of the coordinated WeForYou action in performing the European Researchers’ Night 2014 and 2015 in Slovenia. Energy research & innovation, Environment & Climate Action, Health and ICT Research & Innovation are the priorities which will be tackled by a series of actions and opportunities for interchange of knowledge in the European Researchers’ Night 2014 and 2015 in Slovenia. The events in 2014 and 2015 in Slovenia will take place in: - Ljubljana, the main city square organized by Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI); - Novo mesto, organized by Faculty of Information Studies; - Piran and Piran bay, organized by National Institute of Biology; - Planica, Planetary Habitat Simulation Centre organised by JSI; - Krško, organized by Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) The European Researchers' Night aims to bring researchers to the general public and to increase awareness of research and innovation activities, with a view to support the public recognition of researchers, creating an understanding of the impact of researchers' work on citizen's daily life, and encouraging young people to embark on scientific careers. Among the goals of WeForYou is one of special importance - presenting the researchers that have shown excellency in their results and achievement as ordinary people. Activities that are planned will enable the wide public audience to identify itself with the researchers’ life and to promote science in a firm expectation that the passed message to the young people will embark them on scientific careers. Children and adults addressed within the WeForYou activities will have the opportunity to understand science by experiencing its day-to-day practices, by frequenting the spaces and places where research is carried out and by coming into contact with its machinery and equipment, but above all by talking to those directly involved in scientific research that brings benefit to the society.

The transition to a low carbon society and energy efficiency by 2050 (“The EUs Green Deal”) will require radical solutions, especially in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which have to be reduced by 80%. The major contributing segments are the development of e-mobility and eco-power generation, which will need highly efficient electric motors to meet the target. This can only be achieved by using high-performance rare earths-transition metal permanent magnets (RE-TM PMs) like Nd-Fe-B in such motors and generators. From this perspective, RE-TM PMs are an important subject of further research with aiming at even improved properties and performances. However, REs are on the EU's list of most critical raw materials, which requires holistic measures encompassing their recycling that will in the future accompany their primal development. There is already a large pool of RE-TM PMs based applications that are already at their end of life (EOL) (hard disk drives for example), the new e-applications like electric vehicles and wind turbines that are about to come to their end of life in the near future. However, the current recycling is too expensive for the EUs to conduct so, that is why the proposed project “nOvel reCycling And ReprocessIng of permaNent mAgnets”- OCARINA proposes a new feasible recycling technology of EOL magnets that would reduce EU dependence of RE imports. With this we are killing two flies in one run, as the new recycling route offers to tailor and improve the magnetic properties inside out, that was up to now impossible. ER is to tackle the proposed thematic is hosted by the Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI), Department for Nanostructured (K7) materials, where the complementary and synergetic knowledge are used for the project success.