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/

Ladies in Informatics is together with ATHENA European university celebrating International Women in Engineering Day. Today, we are publishing our research, knowledge and lifelong related quotes and by this motivating other girls and women in engineering to prosper in this industry. The quotes will be published periodically throughout the year and, as such tackling awareness of gender equality from International Day of Women and Girls in Science (February 11, 2021)… Read More »Happy International Women in Engineering Day 2021!

Today we mark the 10th anniversary of the Girls in ICT Day, where several online events will be held worldwide.

A new blog post on Women in Science, ICT and cybersecurity was published on H2020 project CONCORDIA’s website where we proudly mentioned also the beginnings of Ladies in Informatics. Members of Ladies in Informatics also collaborated at the CONCORDIA’s Manifesto for TODAY, developed within CONCORDIA Women in Cyber.

We have opened our Facebook and LinkedIn pages on the United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Our initiative, Ladies in Informatics, has been active since 2018 and aims to unite female scientists with related research interests in computer science and informatics. Our team members are ready to inspire others to reduce gender gap differences in STEM fields. You are welcome to follow us!

At the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, we are involved in the European project H2020on cybersecurity, the CONCORDIA. February is the month of safe use of the Internet, and 9 February 2021 was the Safer Internet day, dedicated to the topic “Together for a better internet”. As part of the related events, Lili Nemec Zlatolas was invited to speak on the subject in programs on TV Maribor. She… Read More »A guest at the informative program on the topic of safe use of the Internet

On 29 January 2021, Tjaša Heričko received the Rector’s Award for the best student in the generation. She achieved an average grade of 10.0 in the master’s study program Informatics and Technologies of Communication. With this award, she enriched her enviable collection of rewards, having received the award for her exceptional contribution to the development of extracurricular activities at the University of Maribor in 2020, the Award for the best… Read More »Tjaša Heričko received Rector’s Award for the best student in the generation

A paper on initiative Ladies in Informatics was published at the Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems CECIIS 2020 and written by Lili Nemec Zlatolas, Maja Pušnik, Tina Beranič and Marjan Heričko. Attracting female professionals, researchers and students in the STEM fields has been a growing topic in recent years. By comprehending the importance of diverse teams in all areas, the emerging challenges are also addressed by the… Read More »A new paper on strategic approach to attracting female students and researchers in the ICT field

At the award ceremony at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Tatjana Welzer received a prestigious Award for research in 2020.