GOIS at Engineering Day 2025

On May 13, 2025, the Director of the GOIS Association attended Engineering Day, held at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia.
The event offered valuable insight into the importance of collaboration and the intersection of engineering and defense.
The central theme, “The Role of Engineering in the Green Energy Transition,” highlighted the crucial contribution of engineering solutions to a sustainable future.

GOIS’s participation also reflected its interest in exploring synergies between engineering and defense sectors.
We are pleased to have been part of this important professional gathering.

VISIT OF THE LUXEMBOURG DELEGATION

With great pleasure, we hosted a delegation from Luxembourg at the premises of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GZS) on April 2, 2025. The event was an excellent opportunity to present our association and showcase various companies that introduced their products and solutions in key areas of interest to Luxembourg.

  • The main topics of the meeting included:
  • Overview of key procurement programs
  • Green transition and energy efficiency – advanced and sustainable energy supply systems
  • Space sector
  • EDTs (Emerging Disruptive Technologies): autonomous systems, simulation and virtual modeling, solutions for cognitive applications, biotechnology, and cybernetics
  • Opportunities for collaboration in research and development
  • SIDEC 2025 Defense Exhibition 

     

     

     

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FIRST INTERNATIONAL DEFENCE EXHIBITION AND CONFERENCE

Discover SIDEC 2025

SIDEC reflects the impact of geopolitical changes and current security challenges that the Republic of Slovenia has addressed. The tactics and operations of warfare, as well as approaches to global security, have evolved significantly. Modern soldier equipment is becoming increasingly technologically advanced, necessitating a new approach and significantly greater investment in research and development.

With this event, the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovenian defence industry, organized within the Slovenian Defence Industry Cluster, are responding to this new reality. Recently, Slovenian scientific and research institutions have also successfully joined this developmental dynamic.

Fair and Professional Conference

The event will include a presentation of the most important technological solutions that were created as a result of development activities under the auspices of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Slovenia and a two-day professional conference. The latter will include four substantive sections, namely: cyber securityfuture technologies, energy efficiency and resilience, and artificial intelligence.

The purpose of the conference is to show the importance of these contents for the further development of the defense and security system as well as the protection and rescue system. At the same time, individual panels will discuss new paradigms that dictate the guidelines for the further development of defense technologies.

The exhibition and expert conference will be closed to the general public; attendance will be by invitation only and require prior registration.

 

The event will take place at the Celjski sejem fairgrounds in Slovenia from October 21 to 24, 2025.

For more details about the event, please, take a visit to the webpage: https://www.sidec.si/en/

17. SESSION OF ASSEMBLY OF GOIS – SLOVENIAN DEFENCE INDUSTRY CLUSTER

On September 5, 2024, 47 members of GIZ GOIS gathered at the 17th regular meeting of the GOIS assembly. The assembly unanimously approved the past work as well as the plan of work and activities and the financial plan for the year 2025. A new supervisory board of GOIS was also elected for the next 4-year mandate period. The general director of the Logistics Directorate at the Ministry of Defense Željko Kralj also addressed the assembly.

SLOVENIAN-GERMAN DEFENCE INDUSTRY DAY

More than 100 participants from 21 German and 30 Slovenian companies gathered on the occasion of Slovenian-German defence industry day in Ljubljana on 13th February 2024. Both sides expressed strong interest for extended already very fruitful cooperation that was clearly shown in more than 170 b2b meetings. Read more

Visit of NATO-SACT general, Mr.Lavigne

Today we had a very important visit. NATO-SACT General, Mr. Lavigne, visited us in the GZS/GOIS premises. He was accompanied by high-ranking representatives of MORS, headed by Colonel Mr. Lipovec. We introduced our GOIS association to them, and then several of our members introduced themselves in more detail. The general and his team showed a lot of interest during these presentations, as they asked the members specific questions during the presentation. We are all looking forward to further possible joint cooperation!

General Assembly of cluster GOIS

Dear Members,
On Wednesday, October 11, 2023, we held our 16th session of the GOIS association in the premises of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in hall A. 34 members of our association were present at the meeting, which represented 60 votes or 60% of the total membership of the association. The assembly was constructive, and important resolutions were adopted for the operation and business of the GOIS association for the coming period.

Slovenian Industry day with THALES Groupthen the welcome speeches continued with

Today, an event called “Day of Slovenian Industry together with the French group Thales” was organized in the premises of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GZS) in co-organization together with the Spirit institution, the Chamber of Commerce and the GOIS. It was attended by representatives of Thales, MORS, SBRA and the Slovenian economy. In the economic sector, there were also many companies that are members of our association GOIS. At this event, we were first greeted by representatives of Thales, also French Ambassador – Ms.Florence Levy greeted us nicely, then the welcome speeches continued with Mr. Kralj from the General Directorate of MORS for Logistics, Mr. Miklavčič, the president of our supervisory board, also greeted us, Mr. Primožič, director of the GOIS association, gave a short presentation about the association’s activities Mr. Ilijaš, the director of the company Arctur, successfully presented to us the detailed operation of R&D (research and development) in our companies in the continuation of this event. At the end, individual Slovenian companies met with Thales representatives at B2B meetings, with the aim of presenting their companies and options for possible joint cooperation with Thales in the future.