Hidria opened a specialised Research and Innovation Centre RIC in the Brdo Technology Park, Ljubljana. It is intended to young experts for their development and finding of break-through innovative green solutions in the field of car and industrial technology.

Owing to its long-term development of product lines in the area of car and industrial technology, Hidria constantly requires highly educated experts. In addition to the local Hidria's environments, it now specifically addresses the Ljubljana Basin, where experts, engineers, developers and innovators from all Slovenia usually arrive. At the RIC, Hidria will offer to experts state-of-the-art development equipment for in-mould vision and electrical measurements. The Centre will also enable Hidria to mutually connect its development hubs in Slovenia, Germany, Hungary and China, and to exchange important information with institutes, faculties and other knowledge centres.

The Ljubljana faculties and institutes are an important source of young innovative developers, whom Hidria now addresses also by an inspiring and encouraging work environment in the capital. In the development of individual solutions, it also gives them room for the so-called out-of-box or unconventional ideas, suiting the extreme tempo of contemporary progress. With Hidria's expert and technological team, the RIC will thus make an important strategic move closer to the educational institutions, where Hidria's grantees also study. In this way, they will be additionally motivated to cooperate with the corporation.