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In the project “Building teachers competence about cyberviolence against girls” we address the topic of online violence against girls, which is a pressing problem that many school professionals are not equipped enough to address or tackle. For that reason, we have decided to bring the topic closer with several project activities in 4 EU countries: a survey of schools, development of MOOC and educational material and building a platform about online violence with the emphasis on online violence against girls.

The Centre for Social Informatics of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana (UL) has joint the ATHENA Research and Innovation Centre from Greece, the Czech Academy of Sciences from Czech Republic and Università degli Studi di Milano from Italy for the H2020 project StR-ESFRI3 aimed at strengthening the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures – ESFRI.

National Awareness Centre, which is part of the Safer Internet Centre project, has published a new handbook for parents with tips on safe internet use called “Vzgoja za internet – priročnik za starše” (How to educate for the internet - a handbook for parents). The handbook is aimed at parents of primary school children, as children become intensive Internet users during this period.

The Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) launched the "TRACeD" project in March under the CERV-2021- DAPHNE call for proposals. The project aims to combat gender-based cyber violence against adolescent girls and young women. In addition to Slovenia, partners from Greece, Italy and Cyprus are also involved.

The Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) and the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare, University of Jyväskylä - JYU) from Finland hosted a virtual micro-workshop on ICT & Ageing on January 19, 2022. The event was organised by Dr. Andraž Petrovčič and Dr. Sakari Taipale, from JYU.

The project entitled “Evaluating probability and nonprobability online panels” was launched by Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) in September 2021. The project is financed by the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) for the period of three years and is classified as a basic project. The leader of the project is prof. Vasja Vehovar, PhD.

The University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Social Informatics (CSI), held its traditional workshop on mixed-mode surveys on 1 December 2021. The event was attended by colleagues from CSI, the Public Opinion and Mass Communication Research Centre of UL FSS, the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia and the National Institute of Public Health to share insights in the field of online and mixed surveys. The event was organised and moderated by Prof. Dr. Vasja Vehovar.

The project entitled “Probability web panels in national statistics for persons and households” was launched by Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) in September 2021. The project is funded by the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) for the period of two years and is classified as a target research project. The leader of the project is prof. Vasja Vehovar, PhD.

We have a pleasure of inviting you to the virtual High-level Webinar BUILDING SAFE DIGITAL SPACES FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS – CLICK OFF CYBER VIOLENCE! The seminar will take place on Thursday, 25 November 2021, 10.00 –12.30 CET.

Members of the Centre for Social Informatics (Jošt Bartol, Dr. Vasja Vehovar and Dr. Andraž Petrovčič) participated in the virtual conference of the Association for Internet Researchers (AoIR), which took place from 12 to 15 October. They presented an original contribution titled “The quality of survey scales for measuring information privacy concerns on social network sites”.