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The Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) organised the traditional annual Workshop on mixed mode surveys, which took place on 23 September 2020 from 9.00 to 13.00. It was attended by researchers from CSI, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, the National Institute of Public Health and academic sector to exchange the results in the field of web and mixed mode surveys. The event was organised and led by prof. Vasja Vehovar, PhD.

In September 2020, Centre for Social Informatics in cooperation with Social Protection Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, organised a democratic forum on the eligibility assessment for long-term care as part of the project on evaluation of long-term care. The members of the project group are testing a new assessment instrument and new criteria for eligibility for long-term care in Slovenia, as defined in the proposal of the new Long-Term Care Act (currently under public discussion).

Gregor Čehovin, Ph. D., and Nejc Berzelak, Ph. D., from the Centre for Social Informatics participated in the international conference General Online Research (GOR) 2020. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the conference was held online on September 10 and 11, 2020. They presented the paper “Designing Grid Questions in Smartphone Surveys: A Review of Current Practice and Data Quality Implications” in the session A.3.2 (Scales and Questions).

Research team of the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Social Informatics (UL FSS CSI) has launched a new basic research project The implications of proxy internet use (PIU) for the internet skills of older adults. The project launched on 1st September 2020 and will last for three years. The project is funded by the Slovenian Research Agency.

We invite you to the "Web Survey Day 2020", which will take place on Wednesday, September 30, 2020, 9.00 -12.30, via the ZOOM platform. The event is organized by the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Center for Social Informatics (CSI) and is intended for professional public online surveys’ users and 1KA users.

The Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) is organizing 9th Web Survey Day (WSD) on 30 September 2020. The event is intended for professional public of online surveys’ users and 1KA users.

Vasja Vehovar, PhD, member of the Centre for Social Informatics, published an article together with Blaž Povž, Darja Fišer, PhD, Nikola Ljubešić, PhD, Ajda Šulc, Dejan Jontes, PhD. The article was published in Teorija in praksa and deals with the socially unacceptable discourse on Facebook news portals.

The fourth bilateral meeting was organized in virtual form on July 1, 2020. The meeting was attended by members of the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) and the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research (SNI), Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.

Dr. Darja Grošelj and dr. Andraž Petrovčič, members of the Centre for Social Informatics, FDV UL, published an article entitled Going online on behalf of someone else: Characteristics of Internet users who act as proxy users in co-authorship with dr. Bianca C. Reisdorf from University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.

Due to the growing number of users, the installation of 1KA online survey tool changed its operation conditions on the www.1ka.si domain. ArnesAAI users still have unlimited access, also basic functionalities are free of charge, but from 1.7.2020 the advanced functionalities are payable.