Europe Code Week is a grassroots initiative which aims to bring coding and digital literacy to everybody in a fun and engaging way. Code Week is held from October 5 - 20, 2019 across Europe. At the UM FERI, Institute of Computer Science, we will hold 10 workshops at primary and secondary schools as part of the "Code Week" event. Learn more about the event at https://codeweek.eu and https://codeweek.si
Our student Kristjan Stopar won the first prize in the student competition at the 28th International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference ERK 2019, organized by IEEE Slovenia Section. Together with his student colleagues Pia Žnidaršič and Urban Košale, Kristjan developed a device for kinesthetic navigation of the blind and visually impaired. Kristjan will represent University of Maribor at the IEEE Region 8 student competition. Congratulations!
Publons has published a list of winners for "2019 Peer Review Awards – Top 1% in Field". As many as four UM FERI researchers have made it to this list. In the field of Computer Science, Niko Lukač and Marjan Mernik from the Institute of Computer Science, and Iztok Fister Jr. and Marko Hölbl from the Institute of Informatics were included in the list. Only six researchers from Slovenia can be found on the list. More information at this link.
We proudly announce that the University of Maribor received the "Global Student Satisfaction Award 2019" prize in the "Over Satisfaction" category from the StudyPortals web portal.
For the field of computer science, this is the first ranking, and for the field of technology, University of Maribor ranked for the second time. In both areas, the University of Maribor is the best-rated Slovenian university.
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (UM FERI) is an internationally recognised, ambitious technical faculty, which successfully transfers top technical knowledge into industry. We are one of the largest faculties in Slovenia with about 1900 full-time students, 640 freshmen students and 289 staff. Till now over 9000 students have graduated and almost 300 doctoral theses were defended at our faculty.
FERI offers 10 undergraduate, 7 masters and 3 doctoral degree study programmes in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Informatics, Media Communications, Telecommunications and Mechatronics.
In study year 2019/2020 we plan to offer the following Study Programmes in English:
More information about study programmes: https://feri.um.si/en/study/programmes/
More information about student life in Slovenia: https://feri.um.si/en/study/being-a-student-in-maribor/
