The vision statement of GreenTRIBOS is that green tribology must develop or integrate individual advanced engineering components and procedures, to provide new and innovative green concepts, which ensure sustainable engineering impact over the whole engineering-system life cycle.
University of Ljubljana (est.1919), largest university in Slovenia, is one of the top 500 universities (Shanghai rank). Laboratory for tribology and interface nanotechnology (TINT), a department within the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, is recognized domestically and worldwide for providing expert research and technological solutions in the field of Tribology and environmentally friendly, green lubrication technologies.
GreenTRIBOS is a planned joint doctorate programme on Green Tribology for Sustainable Engineering, which is becoming a necessary requirement for the future engineering design. It brings together four internationally leading complementary groups (University of Ljubljana, University of Coimbra, University of Leeds, and Luleå University of Technology) in different areas of green tribology that have the capacity and excellence to make a step-change in advancing the Green tribology area and train a new generation of engineers and scientists that will be equipped with high-quality multidisciplinary scientific knowledge, as well as with associated transferrable skills, to become fully creative and innovative with entrepreneurial mind-set and be able to transfer science into innovation in industrial environment for the economic benefit.
Several PhD projects will be launched to embrace the three action areas of GreenTRIBOS, i.e. reducing energy consumption, reducing resources use and reducing environmental pollution and emissions. Each project will be co-supervised by two professors from two academic institutions, and associated with one or more industrial and non-academic partners. In addition to personalised research projects, early stage researchers will be exposed to joint academic curriculum and relevant transferrable skills to become internationally-experienced and highly-employable young leaders in green technology.
1st GreenTribology conference was held in Leeds on 6 September 2023, together with the 48th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology. Both conferences together were attended by more than 200 participants.
Nayan Dhakal, ESR in the GreenTRIBOS consortium, won the Dowson Prize at the 48th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology.
Summary of the training event (4th of September – 8th of September 2022) in United Kingdom
The key academic groups of TRIBOS consortium are leading and world renown in their own field of Tribology and Surface engineering. They are very complementary from point of view of surfaces, lubricants and interfaces, as well as engineering component design. Thus, their involvement in a single programme enables integration of the whole range of tribology sub-areas required for successful application solutions.
