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Gregor Čehovin from the Centre for Social Informatics attended the General Online Reearch (GOR) 2017 conference. During the C11 session, he presented the paper titled Implications of disposition codes for monitoring breakoffs in web surveys, which was prepared together with prof. Vasja Vehovar, PhD.

Centre for social informatics (CDI) in cooperation with the Faculty of mathematics and physics hosted prof. dr. Michael Bosnjak between 8 and 9 March, who for the second consecutive year gave lectures on meta-analysis to doctoral students. Prof. Bosnjak is a longtime colleague of CDI and one of the pioneers of web survey methodology.

Between 18 and 19 January 2017, Denmark hosted the first project partners' meeting of the Interreg Europe project ITHACA (InnovaTion in Health And Care for All). The project involves nine European regions with the shared ambition of accelerating the scaling up of smart health and care innovation that can support active and healthy living and secure the triple win of economic growth, more sustainable health and care systems as well as the improved well-being of Europe’s citizens.

Within the University week, that was carried out between 5th and 9th December 2016, Andraž Petrovčič, PhD received the solemn certificate for young academics and higher education employees for exceptional pedagogical and research accomplishments.

From November 21st to 24th, 2016, the University of Salerno, Department of Political, Social and Communication Sciences, hosted associate professor Katja Lozar Manfreda, PhD, within the Erasmus+ programme.

Katja Lozar Manfreda, PhD and Vasja Vehovar, PhD received the award Excellent in science 2016 for their work on the field of web surveys. The presentations of awardees were carried out on 30th November 2016.

Recently researchers at the CSI have attended several international conferences in the field of ICT and ageing.

In September 2016, The University of Ljubljana finalises the Erasmus+ project Innovation in Social Learning for Higher Education Institutions (ISOLEARN) that started in September 2014.

Katja Lozar Manfreda, PhD, Anže Sendelbah, Gregor Čehovin and Miha Matjašič from the Centre for Social Informatics recently attended the 2016 RC33 Conference: 9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology.

One of the main outputs of the ISOLEARN (Innovation and SOcial LEARNing in Higher Education Institutions) project are Guidelines and Quality Indicators for enhancing accessibility in HEIs.