At the ceremonial session marking Faculty Day at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics (FOI) on December 18, 2025, Prof. Luis de Marcos Ortega, full professor at the University of Alcalá in Madrid, was awarded a special recognition – the “Friend of FOI” Award. The award was presented in gratitude for his outstanding contributions to international collaboration, scientific and teaching excellence, and the promotion of FOI in the global academic community.
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.
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.
The Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varaždin organized and held the student conference within the Erasmus+ project AI2SEP – Developing Talents in Artificial Intelligence to Solve Disruptive Environmental Problems, from September 8 to 11, 2025. The conference brought together more than 25 professors and students from Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania, and Slovenia, along with the hosts – FOI students and faculty members.
Following the success of the first Summer School held in September 2024, the Faculty of Organization and Informatics (FOI) is once again joining forces with its French partner, the engineering school ESIEA, to announce the second edition of the Summer School, which will take place in September 2025 in Varaždin.
From July 2 to 4, 2025, the partners of the international SuMoS project gathered at the partner institution ESIEA in Paris for a three-day event that included a focus group and a working meeting dedicated to the development of the Institutional Student Mobility Ecosystem (ISME).
The seventeenth FOI International Days 2025 were held at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varaždin, from May 21 to 23, 2025, under the theme “International Horizons: Bridging Minds, Changing Lives!”. This year’s theme highlighted the transformative power of student mobility on personal, academic, and professional development.
The traditional 13th International Research Student Symposium on Intercultural Learning is being held at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics from May 25 to June 2, 2025. About 40 students and professors from partner institutions in the USA - University of Cincinnati, Ohio, University of Central Florida, Orlando and Indiana State University from Terre Haute, Indiana will participate in the Symposium. The project manager is Full Prof. Violeta Vidaček Hainš, PhD.
The FOI International Relations Office is organizing Welcome Week for incoming international students who will be studying at FOI during the summer semester of the 2024/2025 academic year. The program will take place from February 25 to February 28, 2025.