LABUST has taken part in many scientific research projects relating to underwater systems and technologies in various roles. This includes numerous international (FP7, H2020, ONRG, INTERREG,...) as well as national projects.
On 24 October 2019, President of the Republic of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović presented Nikica Kokir, Department of Control and Computing Engineering associate, with the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the figure of Katarina Zrinska for the noble and humanitarian act of donating blood more than 100 times.