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We invite you to the first of the autumn series of ATHENA Sci-Cafe lectures, organised by the Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece, together with ATHENA European University.

The lecture will be given by Prof. Michael Graetzel from the Swiss EPFL. Professor Michael Graetzel is considered one of the primary inventors and gurus in photovoltaics. His work has received more than 436785 citations, and his h-index is 288!!

Professor Graetzel will give a talk entitled: “The genesis of molecular photovoltaics and perovskite solar cells”.

Prof. dr. Yu David Liu from State University New York Binghamton received a Fulbright scholarship for four months of research at the University of Maribor in the field of "green computing". At the Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, he will participate in the design and implementation of an energy-aware programming language with self-optimization capability powered by evolutionary computation.

Prof. dr. Liu explained why he decided to come to University of Maribor: "This project is a collaboration with a team of researchers led by Prof. dr. Marjan Mernik. It builds on University of Maribor's research strengths on domain-specific languages and evolutionary computation, with a new focus on energy efficiency. Slovenia is an international leader in sustainable development. The Fulbright project aims at complementing this multidisciplinary effort with a perspective from the computing world. Established in 1946, the Fulbright Program is the flagship program of international educational and cultural exchange in the United States, with a mission of contributing to mutual understanding and finding solutions to challenges facing our communities and our world."

Round tables were held at the conference for the first time this year. One of them was about the future and development of artificial Intelligence in Slovenia, and one of the three panelists was Dr. Damjan Strnad from our faculty.

On Monday and Tuesday, September 19th and 20th, the 31st International Electrotechnical and Computer Conference ERK 2022 was held in Hotel Bernardin in Portorož. The conference is a traditional meeting of experts, not only in the field of electrical engineering and computer science, but also in other fields where electrical engineering and computer science are included.

Prof. dr. Marjan Mernik gave an invited lecture on September 20, 2022, at the Università Ca' Foscari, Venice, entitled "Formal and Practical Aspects of Domain-Specific Languages: An Overview of my work on DSLs", where he presented his research work in the field of domain-specific languages. He has been working in this field for more than 20 years and is among the most cited researchers.

On 20th of September a ceremony was held at the University of Maribor to celebrate its 47th anniversary. Special attention was paid to the symbolic inauguration of the Rector, prof. dr. Zdravko Kačič, who started his second mandate as a rector in June. Prizes and awards were given to students, as well as the titles of honorary doctor and professor emeritus. Two of our students were among the students who received awards and recognitions for their above-average effort and demonstrated success in areas that go beyond their academic obligations.

AWARD FOR THE BEST STUDENT VOLUNTEER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR was received by student LEON ABRAHAM and an AWARD FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXTRACURICCULAR ACTIVITIES was awarded to student MARKO GLUHAK.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Dear Students,

The University of Maribor organizes a Slovene language course for future international students.

27 complete applications from 13 faculties were received this year for the call for the Best Student of the University of Maribor in the academic year 2021/22. The competition, which is being held this year for the 10th year, is the way in which the University of Maribor and participating partners want to reward the best students for their academic excellence and motivate them in further education, research and work.

Our student, Martin Domajnko, achieved a third place and got an award of 400 euros.

Congratulations!

On Thursday, 1 September 2022, the University of Maribor opens application periods for enrolment in a higher year of study, parallel studies, and enrolment of graduates. The application and all supporting documents must be submitted electronically through the eVŠ portal until Friday, 16 September 2022.

Our student Jernej Frangež took part in the Audi development camp under the mentorship of Assoc. prof. dr. Jožef Ritonja. He achieved the best team award and the most talented student award. Congratulations!

The Technical University in Poznan, Poland is organizing a summer school about security and mass data (Big Data Security), which will take place in a hybrid format (physically on location or online) between 12 and 23 September 2022.

The programme of the summer school can be found in the attachment.

Interested students who would like to take part in the summer school, please apply by email: marko.holbl@um.si and mladen.kraljic@um.si, by August 15, 2022, where you will receive all further information.

​The University of Maribor offers additional places for the enrolment of displaced persons with temporary protection from Ukraine under the Call for Enrolment in Undergraduate and Integrated Master's Study Programmes and the Call for Enrolment in Postgraduate Study Programmes of the University of Maribor in the 2022/23 Academic Year.

​​​Application periods will be open from 26 April to 1 September 2022.​

All information can be found on the website my.um.si.:

https://moja.um.si/en/news/Strani/additional-application-periods-for-the-enrolment-of-displaced-persons-from-ukraine-with-temporary-protection.aspx?fbclid=IwAR2rEPt_ubc-BF7YBQyuhZmcMaT9yYj-c5LSPjSY7rKPIMLKE6uz6rkMQIM

Are you interested in studying at the University of Maribor? We offer a wide range of interesting undegraduate and postgraduate study programmes. Join us on MS Teams on Wednesday, 23 March, at 14:00 CET. You will hear useful info about our university, study offer of our faculties and the application/registration procedure. We will also try to answer all your questions, related to the University of Maribor.

Please register at: https://forms.office.com/r/u7D8qgaPnn

Link to the event: https://url.um.si/Li3x9

Dear students,

We would like to inform you that a strike in the education sector has been announced for Wednesday, 9 March 2022. There will be no study process on the day of the strike. However, the strike will not affect the agreed exam deadlines and the defence of the final works, as well as other most urgent tasks related to deadlines.

Sincerely,

prof. dr. Zdravko Kačič,
Rector of the University of Maribor

Pizza Party social event will be held on the 28th of February at 16:00. We will meet in G3-K1-01 (Amfiteater Gauss) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor (UM FERI), Koroška cesta 46, Maribor.
Pizza Party is the main social event for promoting ACM student chapter to students and colleges from University of Maribor.

Between 9th and 12th January 2022, the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2022) was held in Chaminade, California (USA). At this conference, some results of the DAPHNE project, in which Institute of Computer Science UM FERI also participates, were presented to the public for the first time. The presentation is also available on YouTube, and more about the project is available on the project website https://daphne-eu.eu.

ATHENA, a European University alliance of seven higher education institutions, aims at fostering excellence in research and innovation by facilitating international cooperation. The ATHENA Research Book provides a platform that promotes joint and interdisciplinary research projects of both advanced and early-career researchers.

For the first pilot collection (Volume 1), we are currently inviting Review Papers, presenting prominent scientific achievements of the ATHENA Alliance partners, Original Research Papers, focusing on ideas and achievements contributing to the concept of the European University, and Students Papers. Submissions should be sent for the review not later than April 11, 2022.

Details: https://athena-uni.eu/ARB. For any additional questions please use the email: ATHENA-research-book@um.si.

More information is available at ESA web page.

In COVR Project "CobotSense: Intelligent 3D safety sensor for cobot applications ", the partners successfully reached the final Milestone 2 (after 9 of 9 months). FOKUS TECH d.o.o. has managed to raise the scanning speed of their prototype LiDAR sensor to 4.8 fps (from the starting 1 fps), UM FERI has integrated functionalities of motion prediction for both, robot and operator, the protective separation distance (PSD) calculation, and real-time adjustment of the robot’s speed in order to realize the speed and separation monitoring (SSM) principle. FANUC ADRIA d.o.o. has provided laboratory & industrial testing environments and their knowledge in the robot controller communication with external devices. An informative use case was presented by Youtube video and, as the main deliverable, the COVR Toolkit was extended with the Protocol for testing SSM cobot applications with 3D sensors.

Applications till 31st of December 2021.