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Last PRGA event and closing event of the ITHACA project
Between 5 and 7 July, the fourth and final Peer Review Assessment Event (PRGA) of the ITHACA (Interreg Europe) project took place in Mannheim, Germany, in a joint event with the project's closing meeting. The ITHACA project, which ran from 2017 to 2021, was extended last year for an additional year, with the project partners focusing on solutions, innovations and good practices in health and social care that have emerged or been stimulated by the Covid-19 epidemic.
First graduate of the new Social Informatics master's programme
On 23 June 2022, Andreja Praček successfully defended her master's thesis »Student Evaluation Surveys in a Global Context: Methodological Aspects of Conducting and Interpreting the Results«, becoming the first graduate of the new 2-year master's programme in Social Informatics, which was launched at the Faculty of Social Sciences in the academic year 2021/22.
Presentation of the research results in the EMCB conference
Natalija Rebrica, a young researcher from the Centre for Social Informatics, participated in the 11th Emerging Markets Conference Board - EMCB conference titled "Marketing in Emerging Markets in the New Normal" held at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana on May 30-31, 2022.
Presentation of research findings at the CoE AgeCare Mid-Term Congress in Finland
Vesna Dolničar, PhD and Simona Hvalič Touzery, PhD, Researchers from the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana participated at the CoE AgeCare Mid-Term Congress ‘Longer lives, better care?’ Congress that was held on June 15-17 in Tempere, Finland. At the Congress they presented the results of the study among Slovenian informal carers.
D-CARE co-creation workshop
On May 24, a co-creation workshop of the project D-CARE (Interreg Danube) was held. The workshop, which took place in Postojna, was organised by the project partner RDA Green Karst. It was organized as part of the activities of the “Smart Care Pilots" work package, which aims to create Smart Care Labs in the partner regions. The aim of the workshop was to develop a model for an ICT-based solution selected in the innovation call of the project.
Final ITHACA stakeholders meeting
On Tuesday, June 14, the final meeting of the Slovenian stakeholders of the Interreg Europe ITHACA project took place. The meeting, which lasted for an hour and a half, was held via ZOOM. The aim of the meeting, to which selected key stakeholders were invited, was to present Slovenian best practices in the field of e-health and e-care, focusing on the development of services during COVID-19 pandemic.
New article on proxy internet use published in The Information Society
Researchers from the Centre for Social Informatics (Dr. Darja Grošelj, Dr. Andraž Petrovčič, Dr. Vesna Dolničar), in collaboration with Dr. Bianca C. Reisdorf (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA), published a study in the journal The Information Society examining the changing factors that shape proxy internet use activation over time.
Presentation of a research paper at the ICA22 conference
Members of the Centre for Social Informatics (Jošt Bartol, Dr. Katja Prevodnik, Dr. Vasja Vehovar, and Dr. Andraž Petrovčič) participated in the conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), which took place from 25 to 29 May 2022. They presented an original contribution titled “The effects of internet privacy perceptions on internet uses in later life” at the meeting of the Comparative Privacy Research Network (CPRN).