(EN) The project awarded by European Science Foundation to a Slovenian leader represents a high level of recognition to Slovenia - through the established mathematical field of graph theory. The project thus contributed an additional increase in the visibility of Slovenia in this field. Besides the academic institutions, a successful hi-tech company Abelium was involved as a partner, a spin-off from the research group and the programme P1-0294, led by T. Pisanski. This has contributed to bridging the gap between business and research, especially in the fields of network analysis in social and transportation networks. Top scientific knowledge, competences, and skills are systematically used and upgraded during the development of hi-tech solutions - the ones the company have received several innovation awards in the past years (GoOpti, iOliva).  In the past few years, Slovenian graph theory received additional recognition through Ars Mathematica Contemporanea, the first Slovenian mathematical scientific journal being indexed by SCI (since 2011). In addition, T. Pisanski was accepted to Academia Europae. Pajek, a large network analysis tool, was recognized as one of the top academic tools in the field and received the INSNA's 2013 William D. Richards Software award, by International Network for Social Network Analysis. The strategy of achieving scientific excellence of Slovenian graph theory was successfully carried out during the course of the project, additionally opening new opportunities for achieving better integration with business thus having higher economic relevance.