The University of Zagreb Faculty of Organization and Informatics (FOI) is hosting a Fulbright Scholar for the first time – Dr. Thomas Penniston, a renowned expert in the field of learning analytics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in the United States.
On Friday, 10 October 2025, the 36th Doctoral Workshop was held at FOI. The workshop began with an invited lecture titled “Qualitative Multi-Criteria Decision Modelling for Research and Applications” delivered by Prof. Dr. Marko Bohanec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia).
In the winter semester of the academic year 2025/2026, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics (UNIZG FOI) is hosting 13 international students from France (EPITECH and ECE), Romania (Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie Târgu Mureș), Spain (Universidad de Deusto) and South Korea (Chonnam National University). Traditionally, FOI’s International Relations Office organized a Welcome Week for them, held from September 29 to November 3, 2025.
The University of Zagreb Faculty of Organization and Informatics (FOI), hosted the second FOI–ESIEA Summer School throughout September 2025. The program was jointly organized by FOI and its partner institution, the French engineering school ESIEA. It took place from September 1 to 25, 2025, bringing together 23 students and four professors from Croatia and France.
The University of Zagreb Faculty of Organization and Informatics has once again confirmed its excellence in the re-accreditation process conducted by the Agency for Science and Higher Education (Croatian: AZVO). The experts established that FOI fully meets the requirements for carrying out academic activities in accordance with the highest standards of the Accreditation Council.
Forty students from the France, Lithuania, Croatia, Slovakia, Poland and USA delivered 20 research projects online or in form of posters presentations at the 15th Student Poster and Online Section, held within CECIIS 2025 conference. Chairs of this event are Prof. Dr. Violeta Vidaček Hainš from FOI, Prof. Dr. Victoria Appatova from University of Cincinnati, OH, USA and Dr. Antonela Devčić from FOI.
From October 20 to 24, the Faculty of Organization and Informatics will once again become the hub of career opportunities as the 14th Career Week takes place, organized by CPSRK FOI. Students can look forward to inspiring workshops, talks with potential employers, panels on attractive topics such as artificial intelligence and the mental health of Generation Z, as well as a new program feature – Career Blitz, which will give them the chance to test out a real job interview.
On Wednesday, September 17, the opening day of the international Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems (CECIIS), a meeting of deans and vice-deans of faculties in the fields of social sciences and technology from Croatia, Slovenia, and Serbia was held at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics (FOI) in Varaždin. The goal was to bring together higher education leaders to exchange experiences and openly discuss current challenges in higher education.
The 36th International Scientific Conference CECIIS – Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems – was held from September 17th to 19th 2025 at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varaždin. It was held in a hybrid format – both on-site and online – and brought together more than one hundred participants from across Europe and worldwide, including researchers, industry experts, and students. This year, 86 scientific papers authored and co-authored by 230 researchers from 21 countries on five continents have been accepted.
Our Head of the FOI International Relations Office, Izabela Oletić Tušek, represented FOI at the world’s largest international education fair in Europe – the EAIE Conference 2025, held in Gothenburg, Sweden (9–12 September 2025). This year’s theme, “GO-create”, focused on collaboration, innovation and co-creation, with over 240 sessions, workshops and activities featuring more than 500 speakers.