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Asist. Miha Matjašič, Gregor Čehovin, PhD and Jernej Berzelak, PhD from the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) attended the American Association for Public Opinion Research’s (AAPOR) 74st Annual Conference. The conference took place in Toronto, Canada, from 16th to 19th May 2019. This is one of the main global symposia in the field of survey methodology and survey public opinion.

Andraž Petrovčič, PhD attended The 69th Annual International Communication Association Conference, held in Washington, DC, between 24th and 28th May 2019. In the Communication and Technology Interactive Poster Session he presented the study entitled “A Cross-Sectional Study Comparing the Role of Intergenerational Family Ties in Internet Non-Users’ Access to Online Services in 2009 and 2018”.

The Centre for welfare studies and Centre for Social Informatics at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana will be hosting Dr. Stefanie Müller, the Leibniz-Zentrum für Psychologische Information und Dokumentation (ZPID) at the University of Trier, between May 19 and May 22.

Centre for Social Informatics (CDI) hosted prof. dr. Michael Bosnjak (director of ZPID - Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information and Full Professor at the University of Trier) on April 17 and 18 in cooperation with University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. Prof. Bosnjak gave a series of lectures on meta-analysis within the course New developments in statistics (University of Ljubljana’s interdisciplinary doctoral program of Statistics). The slides from the lectures are available on the web page http://www.meta-analysis.eu.

Doc. dr. Andraž Petrovčič from the Centre for Social Informatics at Faculty of Social Sciences was, by invitation of prof. dr. Maria Prosperina Vitale, a guest at University of Salerno from 10th to 13th March 2019. There, he prepared a lecture for postgraduate students at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences entitled »Personal and Contextual factors of proxy internet use among older adults: Has a decade of Internet usage growth changed the role of intergenerational family ties?«.

A two-day i-evAALution consortium meeting (AAL project) took place on March 28 and 29, 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, along the important milestones of the project. The integration and development of the i-evAALution bundle is in its final phase, and a heuristic evaluation of the bundle is planned.

On Tuesday, March 19, 2019, the Presidential Palace in Ljubljana hosted the event for the Mentor of the year 2018 prize. The event was organized for the 10th consecutive year and is intended for the best mentors of doctoral students. Among the nominees for the prize was also assoc. prof. Katja Lozar Manfreda, PhD, from the Centre for Social Informatics. Under her mentoring, Gregor Čehovin successfully completed the training of a young researcher.

Representative of the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, dr. Barbara Brečko, participated at the kick off meeting of the CYBERSAFE project (Changing Attitudes among teenagers on Cyber Violence against Women and Girls) co-financed by EC DG JUST, which took place in Heraklion (Greece) between 11th and 13th of February.

Prof. dr. Vasja Vehovar, head of the Centre for Social Informatics, is the recipient of Blejec award of the Statistical Society of Slovenia in 2018. The awards ceremony took place on 12 February 2019 as part of the Statistical Day 2019. Prof. dr. Vasja Vehovar shares his knowledge with numerous Slovenian institutions dealing with the collection of statistical data. He is responsible for the project of student evaluation surveys at the University of Ljubljana and through the work on the 1KA online survey tool, he also spreads statistical and methodological knowledge to many commercial companies and educators.

Representatives of the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Mojca Šetinc and Tomaž Burnik, participated at the third project partner meeting of the Interreg V-A Slovenia-Austria project COOP4HEALTHCARE (Cross-sectoral Alliances for Smart Healthcare Solutions), which took place in Graz (Austria) on February 5 and 6.