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Eldina KNEZ
33-year-old Eldina is currently working as Head of PR and a Spokesperson at the Government Office for Growth in Slovenia. She believes she can bring her experiences and skills to the team, networks, energy and a will to do something good. Her figures of greatest motivation and inspiration are Einstein, Ghandi, Budha, Rumi, Bono, and Joe Strummer ... |
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Boštjan PEČNIK
Boštjan's friends and colleagues describe him as persistent, sports enthusiastic, nature friendly person. A 28-year-old father is very proud of his newborn son. His eco-belief has been present in his spirit for a very long time and the global warming has just made it stronger. His favourite sport - kayaking brought him in close touch with nature. Since 2006 he is projecting water supply canals, sewers and water reservoirs. |
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Dejan SAVIČ
Dejan is a 23-year-old student of philosophy. He has joined Challenge Europe project because he believes there is not a lot time left for world to take real action against climate change. He is the member of political party Liberal democrats Slovenia (LDS) where he would like to continue his mission of greening the party. He believes his voice in party will be stronger if it would be supported with scientific evidence and cases of good practices of tackling the climate change. |
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Elizabeta BILUŠ
Elizabeta (30) is a member of the PR team of Gorenje, working on internal and external communication. She firmly believes in gender and race equality and thinks a rather large percentage of the world population regards the idea as a bad joke. She is proud of passing the 3rd-kyu exam in Japanese martial art aikido. |
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Katja HORVAT
25-year-old Katja is currently finishing her diploma in Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana. She describes herself as a person of the media. For the past three years she has been working as journalist on POP TV. Travelling is her passion, exploring different cultures with her backpack. She wants to actively contribute to end the destruction of our world and all the species that live in it. |
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Lučka KAVKLER
Lučka (30) is a decisive and determined person who knows that even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. She’s proud of her voluntary work in a philanthropic organisation in Ljubljana, where she used to spend some of her afternoons in the kindergarten for refugee children and teaches two girls foreign languages. Sir Winston Churchill is the figure of her greatest motivation and inspiration. Lučka has been working in an environmental department in the Mercator Group for the past four years. |
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Luka JURI
Luka is 31-year-old Assistant Professor at University of Primorska, who strongly believes in the need of implementing innovative approaches to efficient energy use and new methods of acquiring electricity and motion energy. Luka is also politically active as member of the City Council of Koper and CEO of a company that is working on effective use of electric energy in transport. |
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Manja VIDIC
Friends would describe Manja (26) as being independent and determined – she always does what she intends to. Next to having a son, one of the most memorable experience that profoundly affected her view on the world around her was walking the pilgrimage of Santiago de Compostela. When thinking on what she wants to leave behind her she actually wants to leave as little as possible – pollution wise. She holds and MSc degree from LSE and has been working with the Institute for Strategic Studies, Ljubljana since 2005. |
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Martin AGOSTINI PREGELJ
A 20-year-old student at the University Of Environmental Sciences of Nova Gorica really likes the idea of producing bio diesel from algae. He works in a student organisation and he leads its eco section. Aristotelian philosophy, the technology advancement and Albert Einstein has had the greatest influence on his way of thinking. He thinks that everything is possible if you believe in that. |
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Matej OGRIN
A 32-year-old Matej is the Director of CIPRA Slovenia. Social inequality makes him angry. He would like to be remembered for as a good father, husband and researcher. The most regrettable thing that he believes is happening today is short-sightedness (in many aspects) of human kind. He is sure that very soon, our life will be very different, because energy prices will raise a lot. |
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Matjaž ZORC
A 34-year-old Matjaž is a product designer. Changed regularities in package design - not only recycle, but maybe even different ways of selling things without package should be a part of his contribution to the world. He believes it is not the material that makes it environmental friendly, but multi purpose use, which helps from throwing it to the garbage. He thinks consumerism is not a dead end, we just have to rethink it. |
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Nataša PRISLAN
Nataša is a 37-year-old journalist on public television. She is proud of her recent projects – documentaries. In 2007 she made a documentary about climate change challenger in Slovenia and in the world and a documentary about Rwanda. In 2008 she anchored a 70 min talk show about climate change and finished a documentary about South Africa. She wants to contribute to change of mind and action in Slovenia regarding the necessity of acting NOW about climate change. |
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Nina ŠTROS
The thing Nina (28) is the most proud of is finishing a bike trip across USA, meaning from east to west without loosing her sanity. It has thought her that our only restraint is our mind. She graduated in Water Management at the Cranfield University. She is the Slovenian representative of Greenpeace. She strongly believes that developed world has to learn how to reduce its footprint. |
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Sanja UGRIN
Sanja is a 21-year-old student at School of Environmental Sciences in Nova Gorica. She describes herself as a smart, critical, stubborn, pleasant and talkative person. She thinks one of the greatest innovations of all time is the media. She would like to able to encourage people to play a part in changing our dissolute lifestyle, even if it is so small thing like waste separating. |
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Saša KEK
A 37-year-old Saša works at the Association of Municipalities and Towns of Slovenia. Al Gore and Bono are two figures of greatest motivation and inspiration to her. She thinks it is wrong that people blame the past for all the bad things going on today and just wait what future brings. She believes we should live for today and act for the future. |
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Špela KOTAR
Špela (21) is a student of the landscape architecture. The philosophy of Siddhartha Gautama known as Buddha is leading her life. Living by the help of this philosophy makes her stay stronger than she seems to be and helps her to preserve with the tasks she wants to fulfil. She is sure that the best and insuperable inventor and creator of all time will always be nature. It’s the one that leads the way of human inventions. She wants her generation to make a big step toward stopping this climate changes caused by pollution and irresponsible behaviour of mankind. |
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Tomasz PIRC
Tomasz (33) is a cofounder of International Festival of Creative Communication Magdalena, Slovenian student magazine Zofa and one of the first internet companies in Slovenia Profano (now Innovatif). He has worked with most Slovenian leading companies and organisations on development of new services / products within the new media (internet, multimedia) and mainly in the fields of user-experience, web presence, e-commerce and information architecture. Driven by the never-ending fascination with the human beings: their minds and their hearts. |
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Gregor DRAKSLER
Gregor, a 34-year-old head of advertising at Peugeot Slovenija and father of a two year girl, wants to participate and give his mark for a safer and better tomorrow. He believes that one man cannot save the planet unless he starts the revolution. He also believes that we are one of the last generations that can make some changes. Among friends he is known as a good DJ. |
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Matej NIKŠIČ
Matej is 31-year-old architect who believes that a collaboration of open minded and proactive people of different backgrounds and milieus can bring concrete results with added value at the end. From his professional point of view the translation of environmental-friendly strategies in real urban planning and design is a key topic and he wants to confront his points of view with others and get better insight what correctly shall be done in city planning. |
The Advocates 2008-09 
