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.
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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.
The Faculty of Organization and Informatics (FOI), University of Zagreb, situated in the City of Varaždin, is the first institution of higher education in the Republic of Croatia to join BLOXBERG. It is a secure global blockchain established by a consortium of leading research organizations to provide scientists with decentralized services worldwide.
FOI International Relations Office organized a Welcome Week to welcome international students who will study at FOI in the winter semester of 2022/23. The event was held from 26th to 30th September 2022.
Given that a successful CECIIS 2022 conference is behind us, we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who made it possible for us to organize and hold it in Dubrovnik.
Science sections, project meetings, parallel events and awards for the best papers marked the last day of the CECIIS 2022 conference, held from September 21 to 23, 2022 at the University of Dubrovnik. The organizers also announced the topic of the next CECIIS 2023 conference. Read more below.