UMMI, Creativity of the Young – a Seo of Interest

We started off with the birth of Slovenia

We are organizing research camps for gifted Zois scholarship holders since 1991.

The basic aim of our work is to connect two seemingly distant and independent fields – art and natural sciences. However, in our program they are closely intertwined. Rich cultural heritage of the Istrian area and its current artistic endeavors form the basis for the former, while the sea and its coast with economic and research activity leads the way for the latter.

Throughout our program, youth is being motivated to address relevant issues. By exploring and creating they discover original and well-founded solutions. Their ideas also bring concrete and useful results. During the last years we have had the pleasure to cooperate with more than 50 field experts (researchers and artists) and more than 1200 young gifted Zois scholarship holders from Slovenia who were occasionally joined by youth and mentors from Italy, Austria, England, Czech Republic, Serbia and Croatia.

Of utter importance was the creativity and innovativeness of the youth and mentors, working together as a team, their creative energy mixing and creating new dimensions.

We published 20 publications (books) that contain ideas and projects of certain groups and individuals, with projects being integrated in youth’s home places.

We stake that neither being gifted nor accumulating knowledge is enough if individual’s creativity is not stimulated at the same time.