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Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) organized an interactive workshop on mixed-mode surveys which was held on 23 September 2019. The keynote »Transition to online surveys: Opportunities and challenges« was given by prof. Mick Couper from University of Michigan (USA). His talk was followed by a discussion and exchange of experiences among attendees working at CSI, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia and National Institute of Public Health.

Barbara Brečko, PhD, member of Centre for Social Informatics, attended CYBERSAFE partners meeting that took place in Laiden, Netherlands on 16th and 17th September. Partners from University of Ljubljana and University of Tartu discussed the framework of cyber violence against women and girls, on which a report will be published in November.

Darja Grošelj, PhD, and Miha Matjašič published an article »Forms and factors of internet access in Slovenia« in Teorija in praksa journal. With the reference to the theory of digital inequality, the article explores the forms of internet access among Slovenian Internet users and the factors that influence the adoption and frequency of the usage of various forms of internet access.

Prof. dr. Vasja Vehovar, member of Centre for Social Informatics, and dr. Zdenek Smutny published an article Social Informatics Research: Schools of Thought, Methodological Basis, and Thematic Conceptualization in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.

Vasja Vehovar, PhD, Andraž Petrovčič, PhD, Asist. Miha Matjašič, Jernej Berzelak, PhD, Barbara Brečko, PhD and Gregor Čehovin, PhD from the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) attended the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) 8th Conference. The conference took place in Zagreb, Croatia, from 15th to 19th July 2019. It is the largest European conference covering the field of survey methodology.

As part of the bilateral agreement between the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana and The Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, the Centre for Social Informatics hosted Dr. Bianca C. Reisdorf between 11 and 14 July 2019.

On 18th and 19th of June 2019, the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, in cooperation with the Center for Social Informatics, hosted the 3rd COOP4HEALTHCARE consortium meeting.

A series of meetings was held at the Faculty of Social Sciences from May 29 to June 4 between Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) and The Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research (SNI), University of Haifa, Israel, for the purpose of cooperation on the bilateral project "Digital transformation of quantitative data collection in social science research: Integrating survey data collection with big data and paradata for identifying social behaviour".

On Friday, May 31, 2019, the Centre for Social Informatics hosted Yael Oppenheim from the University of Haifa. Yael is an expert in marketing and social and digital analytics for qualitative and quantitative research. She is also the founder of the FitMyTime platform, which offers digital support for fitness and yoga users.

Assoc. prof. Katja Lozar Manfreda, PhD, member of Centre for Social Informatics, published an article together with Jessica Daikeler in Michael Bošnjak. The article Web Versus Other Survey Modes: An Updated and Extended Meta-Analysis Comparing Response Rates was published in May 2019 in Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology.