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Students can register till the 10th of November and work in groups or alone to provide innovative solutions to the burning issues of a rapidly changing, post-pandemic world, focusing on four main categories: education, economy, social life, and healthcare. The competition is going to be held online from November 13 to 15 and the winner’s prize is 5000€. More information HERE.

The list of journals, in which the members of our Institute of Computer Science are Editors-in-Chief, Associate Editors and Editorial Board members has again been increased. Professor dr. Marjan Mernik becomes an Associate Editor of the "Information Sciences" journal. The journal's current Impact Factor is 5.910, and is ranked in the first quarter for the field of "Computer Science, Information Systems."

In the 'Competition on Single Objective Bound Constrained Optimization' at the CEC'2020, GECCO'2020 and SEMCCO'2020 international conferences, the members of the Institute of Computer Science, UM FERI, Janez Brest and Borko Bošković and the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications, UM FERI, Mirjam Sepesy Maučec won the third place with the algorithm j2020 (J. Brest, MS Maučec, B. Bošković). For more information see this file. Congratulations!

On the 3rd of September at 3:51 CEST the Vega rocket successfully launched 53 satellites into space, including the first Slovenian nanosatellite TRISAT, which separated from the rocket at 5:33 CEST. During the day we successfully established our first contact with it.

Today, on the 6th of July 2020, the University of Maribor opened the second application period for Slovenians without Slovenian citizenship and citizens of non-EU Member States – foreign nationals under the 2020/2021 Call for Enrolment in Postgraduate Programmes of the University of Maribor.​

Assist. Prof. Matej Črepinšek was awarded a silver medal for an important contribution to the realization of the mission of the Association for Technical Culture of Slovenia (ZOTKS) in the field of Computer Science. Congratulations!

Our student Kristjan Stopar won the first prize award at the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest. Together with his student colleagues Pia Žnidaršič and Urban Košale he developed a device for kinesthetic navigation of the blind and visually impaired. The final competition of the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest has been organized in the framework of IEEE MELECON 2020 international conference. Under the supervision of assistant Jernej Kranjec and Prof. Aleš Holobar, Kristjan won the first prize award, despite being only in his 2nd year of the 1st Cycle Bologna Study Programme Computer Science and Information Technologies.

Congratulations!

In accordance with the Act on provisional measures for judicial, administrative and other public matters to cope with the spread of infectious disease SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) (The Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 36/2020) all open application deadlines have been extended until further notice.

Dear student,We are currently faced with many questions about our health, both in Slovenia and in all other countries that are experiencing the coronavirus crisis. To help you with this, we have prepared the attached info sheet on the current situation with information about credible sources and where you can get social and psychological support at this time.

2020/2021 Call for enrolment in postgraduate programmes of the University of Maribor is published.

Dear students,

the University of Maribor issued additional instructions regarding the prevention measures for spreading of Coronavirus – Covid19 in Slovenia.

From Friday, 13th of March till revocation all the Faculties will be obliged to reduce contacts between the students and students and professor or other staff to minimum in order to prevent spreading of the virus between population. The Faculties will organize most of the study process online. They will use different platforms and will inform you accordingly regarding your study or practice obligations. Instructions about the study process at UM FERI will be given via e-mail or on eŠtudij portal. Please follow the instructions and check student e-mail regularly.

You have also noticed that most of the public gatherings and other social activities have been cancelled in last days as a measure of prevention. Slovenian government is taking all the necessary actions in preventing the spreading. The number of infected individuals is still small in Slovenia and we would like to keep it this way.

We would also like to kindly ask you all to not use this extra time off for travelling around Europe– as many Erasmus students like to do and some of them even suggested to us that this would be their plan for the next days – as we really would like to prevent the spreading as much as possible. Stay at home as much as possible and avoid crowds indoors.

Additionally, office hours on UM FERI at Office for Students Affairs are canceled - Faculty is closed. We wold like to encourage you to arrange most of the communication through the e-mails.

In the week before the closure of UM FERI, company KIVI COM d.o.o. delivered eleven smart parcel boxes Direct4.Me. Smart parcel boxes are the result of the development and production of KIVI COM d.o.o. company and are intended for the project work in the 2nd year of the Computer Science and Information Technology study programme. This is a brand new product (the use of Direct4.Me started in December 2019 in cooperation with Pošta Slovenije company), and students of UM FERI will be the first in the world to have the opportunity to use this product to realize their own ideas.

In accordance with the Announcement of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of 24 February 2020 and Directions of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport for preparing a plan for ensuring continuous work in educational, higher education and research institutions in the time of coronavirus, the Rector of the University of Maribor prof. dr. Zdravko Kačič hereby issues the following PLAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR FOR ENSURING CONTINUOUS WORK IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS.

QS World University Rankings ranked the University of Maribor between ranks 551-600 in the list of the best higher education institutions in the field of Computer science and Information Systems.

MODIFICATION OF OFFICE HOURS IN STUDENT AFFAIRS OFFICE

Dear Students!

We are informing you, that until further notice, Student Affairs Office is canceling office hours. Office hours will be performed by the Student Affairs Office's employees via email.

In the meantime, please contact us via email vanesa.spendl@um.si or lidija.kokol@um.si.

Thank you for your understanding!

In the framework of CodeWeek 2019, the Institute of Computer Science (UM FERI) organized more than 10 events and computer programming trainings at schools in the vicinity of Maribor. For this, the European Commission awarded the Institute with the Certificate of Excellence in Coding Literacy. More information about the CodeWeek 2019 can be found on https://codeweek.eu and https://codeweek.si.

Slovenian Science Foundation – SZF awarded Prof. Matej Črepinšek with the "Prometheus of Science for Excellence in Science Communication" award for year 2019, exposing his contributions to raising the awareness of young people about the importance of technical professions for the future of the society and the country. The award was presented at the ceremony, which was held in the Hall of the National Council of the Republic of Slovenia on January 28, 2020.

We invite you to join us in the G2-P3 GAMMA Lecture Room (2nd Floor) on December 17, 2019 at 5:00 pm for a lecture in game development. The lecture will be given by Jure Rehar, owner of Elivion, a game development company.

In the '100-Digit Challenge on Real-Parameter Single Objective Optimization' competition at the CEC'2019, GECCO'2019 and SEMCCO'2019 international conferences, the members of the Institute of Computer Science won the first, second and the tenth place with the algorithms jDE100 (J. Brest, MS Maučec-TK, B. Bošković), DISHchain1e + 12 (A. Zamuda) and rjDE (A. Alič et al.). For more information visit this web page.