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On September 18, 2018, at the University of Ljubljana, the Faculty of Social Sciences hosted a Web Survey Day (WSD) event for the seventh time. WSD is an event organized by CDI since 2012 and is attended by more than 200 users of the online survey tool 1KA (www.1ka.en) and other users of online surveys. Therefore, the target audience is everyone who is interested in the latest achievements and trends in the methodology of online surveys.

First sports day of the Centre for Social Informatics was held on Friday, 14. September. We went to Planica in the morning, where we took a tour around the Nordic Centre first, which was followed by the hike towards Tamar Mountain Lodge. After returning to Planica, adrenaline enthusiasts went on the world's steepest Zipline. Following lunch, we went back to Ljubljana, recharged for new research challenges.

Clickoff project – Stop cyberviolence against women and girls, co-financed by European Union within Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme held press conference at Kolosej Ljubljana on September 6, 2018. The guests were MSc. Maruša Gortnar (MLFSA), PhD. Barbara Brečko (UL FSS), MSc. Tatjana Bobnar (Police) and project’s ambassadors’ Peter Bratuša and Sebastjan Cavazza.

On the occasion of the Excellence in ReSTI Pilot Curriculum & Training Kick-off event, the international project consortium is pleased to invite you to the presentation and expert panel discussion on the ReSTI.academy and its innovative didactic approach, which will take place on the 2nd of October 2018 in Eisenstadt. The open-to-public presentation will be the concluding programme item of the two-day event hosted by the ReSTI partner University of Applied Sciences Burgenland. Further information including a detailed programme will be available in the second half of September 2018.

Representatives of the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Vesna Dolničar, PhD, Mojca Šetinc and Tomaž Burnik, as well as Vika Pušnik, representative of International Research office, participated at the kick-off meeting of the Interreg V-A Slovenia-Austria project COOP4HEALTHCARE (Cross-sectoral Alliances for Smart Healthcare Solutions), which took place in Pinkafeld (Austria) on July 18.

In July 2018, the members of the Centre for the Social Informatics (CSI) at the University of Ljubljana (UL), Faculty of Social Sciences, started the implementation of the basic project entitled "Using paradata to evaluate response quality in web surveys", which is co-financed by the Slovenian Research Agency. The leader of the basic project, which will last three years, is Vasja Vehovar, PhD.

The applied project Understanding and analysis of users' needs for the development of e-services for integrated social and health care in the aging society that addresses current Slovenian and EU policy agenda for ICTs, active ageing, social care and healthcare was launched on July 1st 2018. Its lead partner is the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Social Informatics (UL FSS CSI). Other project partners are: University Medical Centre Ljubljana and Telekom Slovenije. Project is funded by the Slovenian Research Agency and Telekom Slovenije.

On 3rd and 4th of July the fifth of nine Exchange of Experience and Peer Evaluation (EEPE) events took place in Stuttgart, Germany (state Baden-Württemberg). EEPE was attended by Mojca Šetinc from the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI), and three representatives of the stakeholders – Amalija Šiftar from Slovene Federation of Pensioners’ Associations, Mateja Nagode from Social Protection Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, and Dalibor Gavrić from Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia.

University of Ljubljana is a project partner in the new project COOP4HEALTHCARE (Cross-sectoral Alliances for Smart Healthcare Solutions) which was launched on May 1st. Project is funded by the Cooperation Programme Interreg V-A Slovenia-Austria. Head of the project at the University of Ljubljana is member of the Centre for Social Informatics at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Vesna Dolničar, PhD.

On 5th of June the Co-design and ecosystems seminar of the ITHACA project took place in Krakow (Poland). The seminar was attended by Vesna Dolničar and Mojca Šetinc from the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI), and five representatives of the stakeholders.