A new paper on successful female engineers about realizing their career dreams was published in a publication by the Association of Engineering Societies Maribor published in March 2020. The paper was written by Lucija Brezočnik and Tajda Bogovič. The paper presented the stories of successful engineers who have succeeded in various fields of engineering: Maria Kanova – chair and co-founder of Association of Women @ EIT, Andra Dodič – director… Read More »A new paper on successful female engineers about realizing their career dreams

Aida Kamišalić Latifić was awarded the prestigious title of Female Engineer of the year 2019 in Slovenia, and her story was covered broadly in both national and international media. The promotion of such success stories encourages female candidates to apply for job positions in ICT and creates opportunities for sharing best practices. Aida Kamišalić Latifić is a founding member of the Ladies in Informatics initiative and a researcher and professor… Read More »Female Engineer of the Year 2019 is Aida Kamišalić Latifić, a founding member of Ladies in Informatics initiative

Prof. dr. Tatjana Welzer Družovec was named Congress Ambassador for 2019 at the award ceremony by the Slovenian Convention Bureau. With the support of the Slovenian Tourist Board, in cooperation with the Ljubljana Convention Bureau of Tourism and 16 participating partners; Slovenian ambassadorial program project launched in 2019. The program is set in accordance with good practices abroad, where destinations record many successes, precisely at the expense of successful development… Read More »Slovenian Congress Ambasador of the Year title for 2019

On Thursday, 28 November, 2019, there was an award ceremony at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor. Three of our members received an award: Aida Kamišalić Latifić received a prestigious Award for research in 2019, Tjaša Heričko received an Award for the best postgraduate student and Lucija Brezočnik received an Award for professional excellence in 2019.

At the SQAMIA 2019 workshop (Workshop on Software Quality Analysis, Monitoring, Improvement, and Applications), members of the Institute of Informatics, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Rijeka, received the award for the best article. Among them is also a founding member of the initiative Ladies in Informatics, Lucija Brezočnik.

Members of initiative Ladies in informatics were also active in H2020 project CONCORDIA which has a special section where they presented the Women in Cyber – a Manifesto for TODAY at the ACM WomENcourage 2019 workshop in Rome. The Manifesto adopts a holistic approach aiming at addressing the gender gap from different perspectives. It implements concrete actions addressing the goals set out in this Manifesto across six key areas and… Read More »Members of Ladies in informatics active in Women in Cyber – a Manifesto for Today

At the ‘Central and Eastern European’ forum of the Business Process Management Conference (BPM 2019), which is considered to be the largest and most renown event in the field of business process management technologies and methodologies worldwide, the members of the Institute of Informatics, FERI, in cooperation with National Technical University, “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” (Ukraine), received the award for the best paper. Saša Kuhar is also a founding member of… Read More »Best Paper Award received by one of the members of the Initiative

A new paper on how to eliminate the stereotype of “non-female” academic professions was published in a publication by the Association of Engineering Societies Maribor published in March 2020. The paper was written by Lucija Brezočnik. Recently, we have witnessed increasing social and economic concern due to the low representation of women in the science and technology industry. As this is not just a local problem but is observed in… Read More »A new paper on how to eliminate the stereotype of “non-female” academic professions?

During a gender equality talk we have founded the initiative Ladies in Informatics with a goal of uniting female scientists with related research interests in the domains of computer science and informatics. The team members are ready to inspire others to reduce gender gap differences in STEM fields.