The world's largest conference on learning analytics conference "LAK23 - Learning Analytics and Knowledge" is currently being held at the University of Texas (Arlington) from March 13 to 17, 2023, with more than 500 participants from around of the world. Full Prof. Blaženka Divjak, Ph.D. from the Faculty of Organization and Informatics is one of the participants and her role is extremely visible and rich, considering that as a recognized top expert in the use and research of learning analytics, she is involved in numerous activities that follow such world conferences.
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).
University of Murica hosted the kickoff meeting for the Erasmus+ project CUTIE - Competences for Universities using Technology in education and Institutional Empowerment in Spain from 15th to 17th February 2023.
FOI International Relations Office organizes a Welcome Week for international students who will study at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb in the summer semester 2022/23.
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.
The Faculty of Organization and Informatics celebrated its great 60th anniversary, but also the 48th anniversary of its founding, on Friday, December 16th, 2022 in Varaždin.
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.