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When in September your holidays are over, you'll be so fresh and full of ideas. Creativity. Have you had interesting experiences while paying for services? Have you always wondered what's behind all those big banks? How do they operate? Could you imagine a different way forward, a different future, and would like to co-create it?

Take this opportunity and join the UniCredit Hackathon CEE, where amazing individuals like you and UniCredit people will join forces to create something new. Something never seen before. Something that will make our lives easier in the world of consumers and internet.

Two days of hard core coding, business creating, innovating and general fun that can bring the best 3 teams great prizes!

PRIZES:

Monetary rewards will be transferred directly to accounts of individual team members, opened at UniCredit.

All three teams will also present their solutions from the Hackathon to the UniCredit management board on 7th September 2017.

At a later stage, members of the best three teams could also be invited to participate in the implementation phase of the solution.

Sounds like an international job opportunity? You never know!

1. PRIZE - THE WINNING TEAM: EUR 5,000
2. PRIZE - THE SECOND BEST TEAM: EUR 3,500
3. PRIZE - THE THIRD BEST TEAM: EUR 1,500

The reward will be equally split between all team members (please, consider that teams will have up to 8 members).

Apply now for the most innovative weekend of your life. It could be a gamechanger, both for you and UniCredit CEE!

APPLY AT: https://abc-accelerator.com/UniCreditHackathonCEE/

Lucija qualified for the finals as the winner of the competition organised by the IEEE Slovenia Section. The final competition took place between 6-8 July in the framework of the IEEE EUROCON 2017 International Conference held in Ohrid, Macedonia.

Her article Feature selection for classification using particle swarm optimization written under the mentorship of Prof. Dr Vili Podgorelec presents a new method for the problem of finding informative attributes in high-dimensional data, which can significantly reduce the number of attributes, thus achieving better classification results on complex data sets. With this remarkable achievement, the University of Maribor and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science rise among the most successful institutions within this prestigious competition because Lucija's victory has been already the second one for the UM-FERI. Namely, Lucija's mentor, then the student, Vili Podgorelec, won in the finals of this contest in 1999.

Congratulations!

jSO algorithm has been developed by Janez Brest, Mirjam Sepesy Maučec and Borko Bošković and it won the competition among 12 algorithms. jSO algorithm is an improved version of L-SHADE and iL-SHADE algorithms, which are the state-of-the-art algorithms in the area of single-objective optimization.

Congratulations!

Their repertoire:

• Prir. Mateja Petelin: Mamca, pošljite me po vodo
• Josquin Desperez: El Grillo
• Slavko Šuklar: Zrejlo je žito
• Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni: Laudate Dominum

Congratulations!

Assoc. prof. dr. Shih-Hsi Liu holds B.Sc. from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, in 2000, M.Sc. from University of Houston, USA in 2002, and PhD from University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, in 2007. Since 2007 he is a professor of computer science at California State University Fresno. His research interests are: Domain-Specific Languages, Software Engineering, and Evolutionary Computations. From 2009-2011 he was academic senator. From 2011 he is graduate coordinator for Department of Computer Science. He is recipient of several awards.

The visit is part of the project "Integration of visiting foreign experts and higher education lecturers into the teaching process as the pillar of quality development of the internationalization process at the University of Maribor", which is co-funded by the European Social Fund and the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport.

'Shut Up Speak Up' is the theme of the Open Call Poster Project. Fake news, alternative facts, whistleblowers and polarising politicians. The contemporary social and political unrest is not about left or right, or right and wrong. Can you still trust the media when issues are complex and international? As a graphic designer, you play an important role in visualising outspoken opinions. Graphic Matters shows critical imagination by activists, pranksters and good guys who honour freedom of expression and challenge their audience to shape their personal opinion.

From what attitude you challenge your audience? Are you an activist warning us for the evil in this world? Do you directly attack a company, party or person? Are you a prankster opening eyes with visual jokes? Do you create confusion with satire about current situations? Or are you a good guy? Do you stimulate the good in people from an ever-positive attitude?

Send your design with the following specifications: PDF, A3 (29,7 X 42 cm), max 5 MB / 200 dpi, CMYK colour mode. Winners have to submit a new file in size A0.

There is no entry fee.

Eligibility: Open to entries from all over the world.

Prize

A professional jury will choose the fifty most creative, innovative, original and authentic posters. These posters will be shown during Graphic Matters from September 22nd to October 22nd, 2017 in the city centre of Breda (Netherlands).

Five winners will receive a VIP experience including overnight stay and travel budget.

MORE INFO: http://www.graphiccompetitions.com/graphic-design/graphic-matters-open-call-poster-competition-2017/

Summer Schools presentation

The Summer Schools provide an immersive experience in innovation with real business cases with themes aligned to our action lines in Digital Infrastructure, Digital Cities, Digital Industry, Digital Wellbeing and Digital Finance. We welcome attendees from industry, academia and research institutes.

Limited place

Summer Schools are mandatory for the on-campus EIT Digital Master School students, but a limited number of places are also available for academia, researchers and professionals who want to spend two-weeks on an intensive course to hone both their technical knowledge and ability to innovate.

During the Summer School you will:

· assess the impact of ICT technologies and innovations, markets and stakeholders

· explore how to convert ideas into business opportunities and marketable solutions

· perform a business planning process

· understand user-centricity, business life cycles, global market trends, industry value chains, market segments, IPR issues, financial and risk-related issues

· improve personal presentation and communications skills, decision-making and leadership competencies

Experience

According to an industry attendee last year, the experience of working together with students at a Summer School is very valuable: “Students have a fresh way of looking at things. For them, the sky is the limit. They don’t hold back their thinking yet. In a professional life, you forget this way of thinking, you hold back to fit in a company culture. Another side effect was that I found new interns for my company. These students have a technical background and the business skills we are looking for.”

Programme

Digital Cities

· Urban Mobility, Safety and Exploration I Nice I June 25 - July 8

· Citizen Participation and City Governance I Berlin I July 23 - August 5

Digital Industry

· Decentralised Production I Munich I July 30 - August 12

· Retail, Markets, Consumer Engagement I Helsinki I August 6 - August 18

Digital Wellbeing

· Healthy Lifestyle and Occupational Fitness I Lisbon I July 2 - July 15

· Independent Living and Long-term Care I Eindhoven I August 6 - August 19

Digital Infrastructure

· Cybersecurity and Privacy I Trento I July 1 - July 15

· Big Data Analytics I Stockholm I August 6 - August 19

· Internet of Things and Business Transformation I Stockholm I August 6 - August 19

Digital Finance

· Blockchains for Economic Security I Budapest I July 23 - August 5

Interested?

Read more in our brochure or visit our websitehttps://www.eitdigital.eu/eit-digital-academy/summer-schools/. Note, the application deadline is on May 15, 2017 and we have limited seats. Each Summer School costs €750 plus the cost of accommodation.

Stipends covering participation fee, travel and accommodation are available for students from Slovenia.

About the EIT Digital

EIT Digital is a leading European open innovation organisation. Our mission is to foster digital technology innovation and entrepreneurial talent for economic growth and quality of life in Europe. We bring together entrepreneurs from a partnership of over 130 top European corporations, SMEs, start-ups, universities and research institutes.

EIT Digital invests in strategic areas to accelerate the market uptake of research-based digital technologies and to bring entrepreneurial talent and leadership to Europe. Our innovation and education activities are organised in and around our co-location centres, where students, researchers, engineers, business developers and entrepreneurs come together to drive the digitalisation of society.

EIT Digital is a Knowledge and Innovation Community of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). Since 2010, EIT Digital has consistently mobilised talent, ideas, technologies, investments and business across Europe and beyond to stimulate disruptive digital innovation. EIT Digital headquarters are in Brussels with co-location centres in Berlin, Budapest, Eindhoven, Helsinki, London, Madrid, Paris, Stockholm, Trento and a hub in Silicon Valley.

Within the automotive industry traditional development goals have always been about improving the driver safety and comfort. Today, with new technologies, such as assisted or autonomous driving, connected cars or new sensor technologies, like vision systems, help enormously in achieving these goals. They also create an enormous amount of data being in cars and this data is increasing rapidly. Simultaneously, the challenges in developing and testing these new elements and their connectivity are also increasing.

AVL, as a long lasting development partner of powertrains and development tools for manufacturers all over the globe, is taking the challenge of this new area of digitalization. Big Data technologies are essential elements to generate value out of the above mentioned data. This presentation should give you an overview of AVL, the challenges regarding data and digitalization and a first overview on the upcoming use cases for data science and Big Data technologies in automotive industry.

Dr. Michael Hammer is, in addition to being in charge of coordinating “Big Data” related activities within AVL’s Powertrain Engineering, a manager for reliability engineering at AVL List Graz, Austria. Dr. Hammer studied mechanical engineering with focus on analytical and numerical mechanics. His PhD was focused on numerical mathematics applied to contact mechanics, solving large displacement and large deformation frictional body contact problems. After completing his PhD, he joined AVL in 2013 working on tribology in combustion engines and damage modelling. Since 2015 he has been in charge of the reliability engineering team at AVL List in Graz, focusing on big data issues.

Dr. Sandi Pohorec is a data scientist responsible for research and development of Big Data technologies within AVL’ Instrumentations and Test systems, focusing on the data managements and processing software tools developed by AVL. Dr. Pohorec studied at Faculty for electrical engineering and computer science (FERI). His PhD was focused on validation of machine learning with automated natural language processing methods. Since joining AVL in 2014 he is working on various research projects and designing the future, Big Data, architecture of AVL’s data management and processing products.

For more information, rules and enrollment visit thegdwc.com.

Why did you come to FERI and what are you doing here?

I'm here to learn about data processing earth observations, about radar and what we can do with it. The company I work for is actually a Geographic information system (GIS) company, we observe the landscape, forests, etc..

Is this your first time in Slovenia?

Yes, I am here for the first time. I did not have much time for sightseeing, but I was at a football game and walked around city a little. Perhaps I will manage to visit Pohorje. I am leaving on Saturday.

How do you like it here?

I do not know a lot of Irish people who were already here, so I did not really know what to expect. Most of us at least approximately know where Slovenia is or might have heard of Ljubljana, but not Maribor. It was also hard to get to you from Ireland, there aren't good connections and I traveled almost 18 hours by plane and train. But I don't regret it. Slovenia is much nicer and peaceful than I imagined. I met some PhD students, all people here are friendly, relaxed and speak English very well.

BASKETBALL
1st place: Faculty of Economics and Business
2nd place: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
3rd place: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

FOOTBALL
1st place: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2nd: Faculty of Medicine
3rd place: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Also men's volleyball team was very good, as they finished in 4th place.

Our student Matic Majer was recognized as the best player to become Most Valuable Player between football players.

All members of our sports team, thank you for successfully representing our faculty and congratulations on the success!

The Institute of Computer Science is the largest institute at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with excellent results and international awards. The most cited journal paper at University of Maribor belongs to the Institute of Computer Science and as such it is an important contribution to place University of Maribor among the world's most successful universities. Whole TV show (in Slovene) is available at http://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/po-sloveniji/174460677

Eight student received bronze award. At the same time students Aljaž Jeromel and Kristjan Žagar achieved the best results at the University of Maribor.

Congratulations to all participants!

In the competition of winning student papers from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, the expert committee ranked her article titled Feature selection for classification using the particle swarm optimization among the top five. All five finalists will compete for the first three places with the oral presentation of their papers during the EUROCON 2017 conference held this year in July in Ohrid, Macedonia.

Lucija Brezočnik is a teaching assistant at the Institute of Informatics at FERI and doctoral student of Computer Science and Informatics under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Vili Podgorelec. Her main research area is swarm intelligence.

ROSUS 2017 conference program is available at http://rosus.feri.um.si/rosus2017/agenda.php

There is no registration fee for students, but students need to register by sending an e-mail to rosus.feri@um.si .

You are cordially invited.
ROSUS 2017 Organizing Committee