The Faculty of Organization and Informatics (FOI) stood out as one of the most productive constituents of the University of Zagreb at this year’s University Book Day, held on Wednesday, 12 November 2025, at the Regional Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning for South-East Europe – SEECEL in Zagreb. On this occasion, FOI received a special recognition for its high productivity in creating university teaching literature, reaffirming the Faculty’s long-standing commitment to developing and publishing high-quality academic materials.
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.
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.
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.
The CECIIS 2025 conference will take place from 17 to 19 September 2025 in Varaždin, with the option of online participation, offering attendees the opportunity to exchange ideas and discuss innovations in the field of information and intelligent systems. Conference program is available here.
Dear CECIIS 2025 authors, delegates and friends, we are pleased to inform you that conference registration is open!
The 15th Student Online and Poster Section CECIIS 2025 is gathering a large number of students from different countries. The chairs of the CECIIS Student Section are prof. dr. Violeta Vidaček Hainš, Faculty of Organization and Informatics Varaždin and prof. dr. Victoria Appatova, University of Cincinnati in Ohio, USA, and associate is Dr. Antonela Devčić.
Around one hundred experts discussed the future of artificial intelligence (AI) in education. From June 30 to July 2, 2025, several events took place as part of the Erasmus+ project Innovating Learning Design in Higher Education (iLed) and the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) project Trustworthy Learning Analytics and AI for Sound Learning Design (TRUELA).
From 16 to 18 December 2024, the Erasmus+ SuMoS project kick-off meeting, fully titled Strengthening the ecosystem for sustainable student mobility, was held in Varaždin, organized by the project coordinator, the University of Zagreb Faculty of Organization and Informatics. The meeting was held in a hybrid format and was led by the project coordinator, Assoc. Prof. Katarina Pažur Aničić, Ph.D.