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Since 2012, members of CSI have organised the Web Survey Day event that has over 200 attendees each year. The target audience is the professional public as well as other web survey users who are interested in advances and trends in the field of web survey methodology.

Members of the Centre for Social Informatics coordinate the hotline, Spletno oko, which enables internet users to anonymously report hate speech and images of child sexual abuse found on the internet. Working in close cooperation with the police, internet service providers (ISPs), and other governmental and non-governmental organisations in Slovenia, the main mission of Spletno oko is to reduce the number of images of child sexual abuse and online hate speech.

Representatives of the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences (UL FSS), took part in second meeting of the Excellence in ReSTI project that was held in Sofia, Bulgaria from 18th – 19th September 2017.

On 12th and 13th of September the second of nine Exchange of Experience and Peer Evaluation (EEPE) events took place in Danish city of Slagelse (Region Zealand). EEPE was attended by Mojca Šetinc from the Centre for Social Informatics, and representative of the stakeholders – Gregor Cuzak from Slovenian Medical Informatics Association (SDMI).

In 2017, we started to implement three important international projects. In January was launched the Interreg Europe project InnovaTion in Health And Care for All (ITHACA), in February Interreg Danube project Excellence in research, social and technological innovation project management (Re-STI) and in July JUST project Cyber Violence and Harassment against Women and Girls (CYBERVAW).

Since 2011, when CSI was established, we have hosted several leading survey methodologists. In 2012 Mick Couper, PhD, a world-leading expert on web surveys from University of Michigan, attended the 1st Web Survey Day, where he participated in the introductory part and answered the questions about the general state of web surveys worldwide.

On 28 July 2017 Anže Sendelbah, a member of CSI, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation entitled, “Media multitasking in web surveys”.

Attending the ESRA 2017 conference were Katja Lozar Manfreda, PhD, Andraž Petrovčič, PhD, Nejc Berzelak, PhD, Gregor Čehovin and Ana Slavec, PhD (associate member of CSI).

Andraž Petrovčič, PhD, and Vesna Dolničar, PhD, attended the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2017) that took place in Vancouver, Canada, from 9-14 July 2017. HCII2017 is the largest international forum for the dissemination and exchange of up-to-date scientific information on theoretical, generic and applied areas of HCI.

Associate Prof Katja Lozar Manfreda, PhD, taught at the Barcelona Summer School in Survey Methodology 2017 at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona from 29-30 June 2017.