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Kaja Smole Orehek, a member of Centre for Social Informatics, successfully completed doctoral programme in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the young researcher training financed by Slovenian Research Agency.

Štěpán Žádník visited the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) between February and August 2022 as a doctoral student at the Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic). During his stay at CSI, he worked on his dissertation thesis under guidance of Dr. Andraž Petrovčič.

On Wednesday, 7. 12. 2022, the Faculty of Social Sciences hosted a roundtable on career paths of Social Informatics graduates, organized by the DID Student Society and the Chair of Social Informatics and Methodology in collaboration with four distinguished alumni of the programme.

Andreja Praček, a member of the Centre for Social Informatics, is one of the recipients of the Faculty's Award for the Best Academic Performance at the post-graduate level.

On December 1, 2022, an international meeting of the partners of the project D-CARE (Interreg Danube) was organised by the representatives of the Centre for Social Informatics: Lea Lebar (project head) and Mojca Šetinc, together with the external collaborator Janja Drole.

The article Krepitev druženja, samo-predstavljanja in igranja: študija digitalnih scenarijev osnovnošolcev v kontekstu epidemije virusa by asist. dr. Barbara Brečko (CDI) and prof. dr. Tanja Oblak Črnič (CRDK) has been chosen as part of the Excellence in Science 2022 selection.

Prof. Vasja Vehovar, Ph.D., Gregor Čehovin, Ph.D., and Andreja Praček of the Centre for Social Informatics gave presentations in the methodological section of the Slovene Sociological Association Meeting 2022, held at the Faculty of Social Sciences on November 4 and 5.

Jerneja Laznik presented a paper written by members of the Centre for Social Informatics in collaboration with Štěpán Žádník (University of Brno, Czech Republic), at the Annual scientific meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA22), held from 2 to 6 November 2022 in Indianapolis, USA.

On October 27.–28., University of Ljubljana hosted the Sixth international doctoral conference, Ljubljana - Graz - Rijeka, in cooperation with the University of Graz and the University of Rijeka. This year' s conference, which focused on digitalization in science and society, allowed students from three universities to meet and share knowledge and experience.

On October 1st 2022, we have launched the ARRS-CRP project titled Digital inequalities and older adults in Slovenia: An evaluation of the measures implemented under the Digital Inclusion Promotion Act (V5-2275). The project is funded by the Slovenian Research Agency and Government Office for Digital Transformation.