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Guest Lecture: Mohsan Ali

A guest lecture by Mohsan Ali entitled “Learning Across Borders: Education, Culture, and the Greek Experience” will take place on Tuesday, 10 November 2026, at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1, FOI 1, as part of the Business Communication course in the first year of the undergraduate programme in Economics of Entrepreneurship. The lecture is open to all interested participants.

Prof. Violeta Vidaček Hainš, PhD Guest Lecturer at Thapar University in India

At the invitation of the host institution, Thapar School of Liberal Arts and Sciences (TSLAS) in Patiala, India, Prof. Violeta Vidaček Hainš, PhD, served as a guest lecturer and conducted communication workshops for graduate and doctoral students in psychology from 11 to 18 October 2026. The workshops, entitled “Cross-Cultural Communication and Individual Differences: How to Build Positive Relationships”, brought together approximately 30 students.

 
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International mobility at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

Teaching staff from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Organization and Informatics (UNIZG FOI), Associate Professor Iva Gregurec, PhD, Larisa Hrustek, PhD, Magdalena Kuštelega and Matija Šajn, together with Izabela Oletić Tušek, Head of the International Relations Centre, participated in international mobility at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) in the Netherlands. 

 
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International students arrive at UNIZG FOI for the winter semester

The International Relations Centre at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Organization and Informatics (UNIZG FOI) organised Welcome Week from 29 September to 1 October 2026, welcoming international students for the winter semester of the 2026/27 academic year. The students come from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, EPITECH and ECE Engineering School in France, Malmö University in Sweden, and Hongik University in South Korea. 

FOI students develop digital solutions for sustainability in an international setting

Bringing together students and academic staff from five European countries, exchanging knowledge and applying digital technologies to sustainability were at the heart of the international workshop “Green Thinking & Digital Action”, held from 22 to 24 September 2026 in Kranj, Slovenia, with the participation of the University of Zagreb Faculty of Organization and Informatics (UNIZG FOI). 

FOI and ESIEA held the third Summer school in Varaždin

The third FOI-ESIEA Summer school was successfully completed at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Organization and Informatics. Held from 1 to 24 September 2026, it was jointly organised by FOI and its partner engineering school, ESIEA in France. The programme brought together twelve ESIEA students, with fourteen FOI students also joining the classes in asymmetric cryptography.

FOI students present research at Symposium in the USA

The 14th Student Research Symposium on Intercultural Learning took place in the USA from 31 August to 10 September 2026, continuing a longstanding tradition. FOI students Mihaela Sedlar, Niko Rastija and Dino Plodinec visited the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana, as well as Chicago. They were accompanied by Professor Violeta Vidaček Hainš, PhD, who led the Symposium from 2010 to 2026, and Damir Vučić, PhD, both faculty members at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Organization and Informatics.

FOI at EAIE Glasgow 2026

This year, the Faculty of Organization and Informatics once again participated in the EAIE Conference and Exhibition, Europe’s largest conference dedicated to international higher education. The event in Glasgow brought together more than 7,300 international higher education professionals from over 100 countries. FOI was represented by Associate Professor Martina Tomičić Furjan, PhD, Vice-Dean for Research, Projects and International Cooperation, and Izabela Oletić Tušek, Head of the Centre for International Cooperation.

International Student Section CECIIS 2026 with participants from South Africa, India, Ireland, Slovakia and Croatia

The 16th Student Online and Poster Section CECIIS 2026 will be gathering a diverse group of students from several countries. This year, participants are joining from South Africa, India, Ireland, Slovakia and Croatia, contributing to the international character and interdisciplinary spirit of the conference.

Research visit of Prof. Luis de Marcos Ortega to FOI

On Wednesday, July 22, and Thursday, July 23, 2026, the University of Zagreb Faculty of Organization and Informatics (FOI) hosted a seminar and a workshop dedicated to the application of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs) in scientific research. The activities were organized as part of the research visit of Prof. Luis de Marcos Ortega from the University of Alcalá (Spain), carried out within the activities of FOI’s Laboratory for Applied Software Engineering.

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