Between September 9th and 11th, 2024, the eleventh international workshop SQAMIA 2024 (Software Quality Analysis, Monitoring, Improvement, and Applications), was organized by the Department of Mathematics and Informatics of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Novi Sad. Among all the contributions, the Zoran Budimac Best Paper Award was given to Vasilka Saklamaeva, a young researcher from the Institute of Informatics. In co-authorship with her mentor, Luka Pavlič, she… Read More »Best paper award at the international workshop to Vasilka Saklamaeva

We are pleased to announce that Lucija Brezočnik, a member of the Institute of Informatics at UM FERI, received an award at the 10th Jubilee International Conference NT-2024 (New Technologies, Development, and Application) for her contribution to the development of the scientific conference NT-2024. The award citation expressed gratitude for her annually presented papers, which were published in Springer’s “Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems” series and achieved a high… Read More »Lucija Brezočnik received an award at the NT-2024 Conference

On February 21st and 22nd 2024, the SET4Inclusion project transnational meeting was held at Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa in Istanbul, Türkiye, attended by our member Maja Pušnik. The partners from Turkey, Slovenia, Portugal, Italy, and Spain discussed the development of e-learning materials, a crucial part of the self-evaluation tool, which is being developed as part of the project’s activities. The final E-Platform is taking shape and will soon be available as an… Read More »Third transnational SET4Inclusion project meeting

In February 2024, a three-year Erasmus+ funded research and innovation international project CyberHubs was launched with 21 partners from 11 European countries. The project kicked off with a two-day introductory meeting, which took place on February 7th and 8th, 2024, in Brussels. It was attended by our member, Nika Jeršič, together with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Muhamed Turkanović from the Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University… Read More »Kick-off of the CyberHubs project

In January 2024, the Horizon Europe project SMART ERA, worth €6.5 million, was launched to empower rural communities facing socio-economic and environmental challenges. The 4-year project fosters a community-led pathway to change based on high-tech digital products and services using co-developed solutions bundled into smart innovation packages. It covers technology, governance, business, societal aspects, and policy making. The project involves 25 partners from 10 European countries and is coordinated by Fondazione Bruno Kessler. The kick-off meeting in… Read More »Horizon project SMART ERA kick-off in Trento

One of the main goals of the Central European Student and Young Professionals (CEuSYP) Congress is to bring students and young professionals together, increase the interest of students to remain volunteers after graduation and participate in the activities of their local Young Professional affinity groups. Special focus was also the transfer of knowledge to new volunteers, as well as recently established or reactivated student branches and Young Professionals affinity groups.… Read More »Lucija Brezočnik participated at the IEEE CEuSYP’23 Congress

On November 30, 2023, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (FERI) hosted its annual Day of FERI (Dan FERI) ceremony. Two of our members, Vasilka Saklamaeva and Nika Jeršič, received the Award for outstanding student work in 2023. Congratulations, Vasilka and Nika!

On November 30th and December 1st, a kick-off meeting for the Erasmus+ Project Enhancing Inclusive Education in Higher Education Institutions with Artificial Intelligence (AI-ENABLE) was held at the University of Deusto (Bilbao, Spain). Our member, Maja Pušnik, together with Boštjan Šumak from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor coordinated the meeting with  partners from Slovenia (Inštitut za napredno upravljanje komunikacij), Turkey (Istanbul Universitesi – Cerrahpasa),… Read More »AI-ENABLE project kick-off meeting

We are happy to announce that our member, Lucija Brezočnik, together with co-authors Tanja Žlender (NIJZ), Vili Podgorelec (FERI), and Maja Rupnik (MF, NIJZ) received the award for the best poster on automatic identification of polluters using comparative analysis of the 16S rRNA gene at the Power of Microbes in Industry and Environment 2023 Symposium. Many challenges we face require the integration of various fields and combining professional knowledge, which is reflected in innovative… Read More »Lucija Brezočnik received the best poster award

Dr. Martina Šestak held an invited lecture titled „Data pipeline architecture design in the context of data space implementation“ at the Forum podatkovne analitike (Data Analytics Forum, FPA 2023) conference held on April 20 in Ljubljana. As part of the lecture, she presented an overview of current approaches and technologies for big data architectures and the current achievements in designing an agrifood data spaces within the scope of the ZeroW… Read More »Dr. Martina Šestak held an invited lecture at the Data Analytics Forum