Marija Klopčič, PhD, studied Animal Science at the Department of Animal Science of the Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is Associate Professor in the Dept. of Animal Science of Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana. She also works for the Slovenian Holstein Association as the person responsible for their breeding program. Her fields of expertise are cattle breeding, cattle housing systems, farm management and knowledge transfer. She is active in knowledge transfer to advisers, farmers and especially young farmers. She is presently coordinator of the EU projects FreeWalk (www.freewalk.eu), Ag-Lab Erasmus+ project (https://ag-lab.isle.eummena.org/) and two EIP-AGRI projects on the national level. She will participate in the network project Resilience for Dairy Farming (R4D) in the period 2021 to 2023 and EU Horizon 2020 project SUPER-G (https://www.super-g.eu/). She was secretary and later also president of the Cattle Commission of the European Association for Animal Production (EAAP) for 10 years. She is a member of the Steering Committee of Interbull and national contact point for ICAR (International Committee for Animal Recording).