On Wednesday, 29 March 2023, the Chamber of Commerce hosted the event Women in Cyber Security – Trends, Opportunities and Current Challenges, organised by the Cyber Security Section (Association for Informatics and Telecommunications), the ICT Horizontal Network and DIH Slovenia. The event highlighted the opportunities that are key to encouraging girls’ early interest in engineering, technical careers and raising awareness among the general public about what it looks like to… Read More »Women in Cybersecurity event

56 institutions from 21 countries collaborated on the research and innovation project At UM FERI, we have contributed to several high-profile results with several scientific publications, of particular note is the paper “Applying k-vertex Cardinality Constraints on a Neo4j Graph Database” by Martina Šestak, Marjan Herička, Tatjana Welzer Družovec and Muhamed Turkanović, published in 2021 in the Elsevier journal Future Generation Computer Systems, was specially highlighted as one of the… Read More »Our members collaborated in CONCORDIA project

The ATHENA European university is organising an online round table discussion with females in top scientific or leadership positions to celebrate women’s day on 8 March (at 16.00 CET). Women’s career challenges and possible strategies to overcome them will be some of the discussion topics. Three members of Ladies for Informatics were among the panellists and organisers. According to the European Strategy for Universities, a persistent gender gap remains in some fields of study and research and… Read More »Round table: Women in Leadership

Our member, Tjaša Heričko from the Institute of Informatics, has been awarded the Best Presentation Award at the International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management for her presentation of the paper “On the Relationship Between Linter Warning Density and Software Maintainability: An Empirical Study of JavaScript Projects” (Tjaša Heričko, Boštjan Šumak). Congratulations!

At the SQAMIA 2022 workshop (Workshop on Software Quality Analysis, Monitoring, Improvement, and Applications), members of the initiative UM Ladies in Informatics were honored with the Best paper award: Tjaša Heričko, Saša Brdnik and Boštjan Šumak: Commit Classification Into Maintenance Activities Using Aggregated Semantic Word Embeddings of Software Change Messages Congratulations!

Our member, Tjaša Heričko, received the Best Paper Award at the Software and Systems Engineering conference of the 45th Jubilee International Convention MIPRO for the paper Tjaša Heričko, Boštjan Šumak : Analyzing Linter Usage and Warnings through Mining Software Repositories: A Longitudinal Case Study of JavaScript Packages. Congratulations!

On Thursday, 12.5.2022, a round table on Challenges for Women in IT was held as part of the Slovenian Informatics Days 2022 conference. The roundtable highlighted a number of ideas to inspire and advance the inclusion of women. Zdravka Zalar, co-founder and CEO of Smartis d.o.o., Polonca Blaznik, advisor to the Minister in the Government Office for Digital Transformation, Aida Kamišalić Latifić, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering… Read More »Round table: Challenges for Women in IT

Every year in January, the University of Maribor celebrates the Rector’s Day, during which the University of Maribor awards prizes and distinctions for scientific research, artistic and educational work, the University of Maribor awards for professional work, ceremonial charters, the Rector’s Prizes and the Perlach Prizes and distinctions are awarded. One of this year’s prizes for scientific research, artistic and educational work was awarded to our member Prof. Tatjana Welzer… Read More »Rector’s Award for Scientific Research, Artistic and Educational Work awarded to Tatjana Welzer

On 17 November 2021, the Slovenian Congress Office held an online event as part of the Slovenian Ambassadors Programme to present this year’s Slovenian Congress Ambassadors, who, through their dedication, commitment, international involvement and perseverance, have helped Slovenia to host international scientific, professional and other business and sporting events over the years. The event also featured interviews with this year’s Slovenian Congress Ambassadors, where they told us more about their… Read More »Lili Nemec Zlatolas received the honorary title of Congress Ambassador of Slovenia 2021

Our member, Martina Šestak, won a PhD Student award at CONCORDIA WOMEN’s AWARDS. CONCORDIA H2020 project founded WOMEN’s AWARDs to recognize outstanding women working in cybersecurity and privacy, encourage young females to continue pursuing their careers in cybersecurity. More on the winners of the awards: https://www.concordia-h2020.eu/news/research-category-winners-in-concordia-womens-awards/