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/

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.