Scope of Work

UTRIP was and still is involved in several European research and developmental projects, co- financed by the European Commission under the Health Programme, the Drug Prevention and Information Programme, the Justice Programme (Drug Policy Initiatives), the Daphne III Programme, the Lifelong Learning Programme, the Erasmus Plus Programme, the European Social Fund and the 7th Framework Programme (FP7). UTRIP was actively involved in the European Alcohol Policy Research Alliance (AMPHORA) and the European research project in the field of addictions (ALICE RAP), co-funded by the 7th Framework Programme (FP7). UTRIP was the coordinator of the project “Club Health – Healthy and Safer Nightlife of Youth” which was co-financed by the European Commission (Health Programme). UTRIP is a national centre for school-based prevention programmes EU-Dap (»Unplugged«), EFFEKT and Boys & Girls Plus, and family-based prevention programme »The Strengthening Families Program«. UTRIP leads a national network of NGOs in the field of prevention »Prevention platform«, which is funded by the European Social Fund and the Ministry of Health.

​UTRIP is a private institute with annual budget of approx. 300.000 € (2018) and it is not membership organisation. UTRIP is funded by the European Commission (several projects), the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Slovenia, the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports, and the City of Ljubljana. Now, 6 people work for UTRIP on full-time or part-time contracts, which mostly depend on funded projects and sustainable national funding by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Slovenia. UTRIP collaborates with many professionals, volunteers and students. Matej Košir, a Director of UTRIP, received the European Society for Prevention Research (EUSPR) 2017 award called »Leading European Prevention Science Practitioner Honour« (http://euspr.org) at the EUSPR 2017 conference in Vienna (Austria). Sanela Talić, Head of Prevention at UTRIP, received the International Society of Substance Use Professionals (ISSUP) Services to Drug Demand Reduction Award 2018 in the category »Early Career« (https://www.issup.net/about-issup/issup- award/services-award/early-career-award-winner) at the ISSUP 2018 conference in Nairobi (Kenya) and is a PhD in Prevention Science candidate at the University of Zagreb (Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences) (Croatia).