The University programming marathon (UPM) is an all-Slovenian competition for students in programming with an emphasis on knowledge of data structures and algorithms.

With the co-organization of the Institute of Computer Science UM FERI, the state competition on computational thinking Bober 2018/19 successfully concluded on 12 January 2019. The competition was attended by 250 primary and secondary school pupils who were selected from 33,500 attendees from local school competitions. During the event, two lectures were organized: Artificial Intelligence Today: Background of Some Recent Developments (Assoc. Prof. dR: Damjan Strnad) and Telecommunications: Remote Transmission of Information (Assist. Prof. Dr. Boštjan Vlaovič, Ph.D.). Learn more about the event at https://tekmovanja.acm.si/bober .

28th International Expert Meeting Power Engineering 2019 will be held at the Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Compuer Science in Maribor from May 14TH to 16TH 2019.

We invite you to the 14th professional conference Computer Image processing and its application in Slovenia 2019, which will be held at UM-FERI on Thursday, March 21, 2019 (G2-Beta lecture room). The novelty of this year's conference is the afternoon section titled "Deep learning: Practical advices from experts".

More info: https://rosus.feri.um.si/

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.

On the web site https://eng.cmepius.si/programmes-projects/bilateral-scholarships/ you can find a new Invitation Bilateral Scholarships Academic Year 2019/20, On-Line application form and other important information. With this Scholarship Candidates from Countries with bilateral agreements (between the governments/ministries) can come to the study exchange.

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 2018/2019 we plan to offer the following Study Programmes in English:

• Undergarduate Study Programme in Electrical Engineering
• Undergarduate Study Programme in Computer Science and Information Technologies
• Master's Programme in Computer Science and Information Technologies
• Master's Programme in Informatics and Technologies of Communication
• Doctoral Programme in Electrical Engineering
• Doctoral Programme in Computer Science and Informatics
• Doctoral Programme in Media Communications

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/