With pleasure, we announce the jubilee 15th edition of FOI International Days which will be held in Varaždin, Croatia at the premises of the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, from May 10 to 12, 2023, and invite you to join us!
Read the final project results and outcomes for the Europe for Citizens Project “WAI4PwDs- Web Accessibility and Other Initiatives for Persons with Disabilities in EU in Pandemic and other Crisis Times”.
The Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb starts the new study program in English language, “LogisTics And mobiLity ManagEmeNT – TALENT” in cooperation with The Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb. Read more info below.
March 8th, International Women's Day, provides an excellent opportunity to highlight the importance of women in entrepreneurship. An inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystem provides a vehicle for empowering women to start an entrepreneurship venture. The WeRin project consortium, of which FOI is a part, has been working to make entrepreneurship education and support programmes more inclusive for women for two years now, with the aim of increasing the share of female graduate entrepreneurs.
On Wednesday and Thursday, 1-2 March 2023, at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb (FOI), a work meeting, focus group and research workshop of the project "HELA – Improving HEI maturity to implement learning analytics" were held, led by Full Prof. Nina Begičević Ređep, Ph.D. and Full Prof. Diana Šimić, Ph.D., with 6 experts in the field of learning analytics, from eminent European universities - Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven and the University Computing Centre (SRCE).
The 34th Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems CECIIS 2023 will be held from September 20th to September 22nd, 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia with the „Digital Human“ topic. The aim of the Conference is to be the interface of researchers involved in the development and application of methods and techniques in the field of information and intelligent systems. The Conference program includes invited lecturers, contributed papers and other parallel events.
Last week, DIMCARE project partners from Spain and Italy visited social enterprises in Varaždin County, with the aim of determining the need for digitalization in the people care sector within the social economy system.
FOI and IBM iX are looking for a Teaching Assistant (PhD Candidate) & Java Developer (f/m/x). Read more about this opportunity below.
The Faculty of Organization and Informatics has once again participated in Erasmus+ Combined Intensive Programs (BIP) under the name "Next-Level - Innovation for sustainability and inclusion" in Amsterdam. The lecturer from FOI was Martina Tomičić Furjan, and the students who participated and earned 5 ECTS from FOI were Jana Pučar, Klara Škaulj, Mateo Vujica and Benjamin Filip Šikač. Other partners involved in the implementation of the program, in addition to FOI, were Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Netherlands (coordinator), Karel de Grote University College, Antwerp, Belgium and Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart, Germany. Total of 37 students and 6 lecturers participated in the program.
The fifth bloxberg summit took place as a hybrid conference in Protaras, Cyprus, from October 26-27. This time the annual Consortium meeting was organized for the fifth time in a row by the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) in collaboration with the University of Nicosia, one of the bloxberg founders, and FOI is among them. Twenty-two institutions took part in this year’s summit, hosted at the Sunrise Pearl Hotel by the University of Nicosia. Next to the sessions on member activities, bloxberg projects, and working group updates, a significant change took place regarding bloxberg’s legal status. Assoc. Prof. Katarina Tomičić Pupek, Ph.D. attended the Cyprus meeting on behalf of FOI.