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As part of the international symposium SymOrg 2026, one of the leading scientific conferences in the field of organizational sciences held at Kopaonik, a forum entitled “Unlocking Regional Potential Through Academia–Industry Collaboration” was also organized and brought together representatives of the academic community from across the region, including Assoc. Prof. Martina Tomičić Furjan, PhD, Vice Dean for Research, Projects and International Cooperation at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics (FOI).

We invite you to a lecture titled “From Research Ideas to Research Artefacts: Building Collaboration in Informatics and Design Science Research.” The lecture is part of the Faculty’s internal “Time 4 Science” project and will take place on Tuesday, 16 June 2026, from 12:00 AM, in Lecture Hall 10 (FOI1). The speaker will be Professor Alta van der Merwe, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology at the University of Pretoria, and a long-standing friend of the Faculty of Organization and Informatics.

Students presented the results of the COIL - Collaborative Online International Learning project (28th May 2026). The innovative COIL learning method was implemented 2018 at FOI and is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Violeta Vidaček Hainš. During the past winter semester 2025/26, COIL was implemented in the Human Resources and Career Development course, 3rd year of the undergraduate study program Information Technologies and Business Digitalization, co-leded by Prof. Dr. Marina Klačmer Čalopa, and associates assistants Dr. Karolina Kokot and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Katarina Pažur Aničić. The head of COIL at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) is professor Andreia Carita, and at the University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, Prof. Dr. Machdel Mathee.

On Friday, May 29, 2026, we invite you to a lecture titled “Limits, Tensions, and Risks of Human and Artificially Created Communities in Organizations: The Case of Human Digital Twins in B2B Sales Contexts” (original English title: “Limits, Tensions, and Risks of Human–AI Assemblages in Organizations: The Case of Human Digital Twins in B2B Sales Contexts”), which will be held as part of the Faculty’s internal project “Time 4 Science”.