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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.

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.

Dr. Andraž Petrovčič and Dr. Vesna Dolničar (co-authored by Dr. Sebatiaan Peek, University of Tilburg) published the article “Predictors of Seniors’ Interest in Assistive Applications on Smartphones: Evidence from a Population-Based Survey in Slovenia”. It has been published with the financial support of the Slovenian Research Agency and belongs to a special issue “Quality of Life: The Interplay between Human Behaviour, Technology and the Environment” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.