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Ana Slavec, PhD attended the Second International Conference on Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Contexts (3MC 2016) that took place in Chicago from 25th to 29th of July 2016. She presented a paper titled Word frequency effect and response quality: A comparison of four questionnaire versions on a web panel.

Within the international SERISS (Synergies for Europe's Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences) project, in which also the researchers of Centre for Social Informatics are involved, was published the first issue of e-newsletter.

In June 2016 the project Safer Internet Centre was successfully concluded. “Safer Internet Centre Slovenia is the national project promoting and ensuring a better internet for kids. This is a EU initiated and co-financed project, in Slovenia financial support also comes from the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport.

Prof. Vasja Vehovar, PhD from Centre for Social Informatics has conducted a course at the Summer School in Survey Methodology that was carried out by Universitat Pomepu Fabra in Barcelona at the end of June 2016.

Gregor Čehovin from the Centre for Social Informatics attended the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) 71st Annual Conference. At the conference’s first poster session, Gregor Čehovin presented the preliminary results of an ongoing metastudy of survey breakoffs titled “Introduction breakoffs, questionnaire breakoffs and web questionnaire length: a metastudy”.

Between 18 and 20 May 2016, the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) is hosting Dr Jon A. Krosnicka, the leading survey methodologist from Stanford University (USA). Dr Krosnick will participate in Ana Slavec’s second doctoral seminar and the »Survey mode effects« workshop that will be held at the National Institute of Public Health.

The Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) has started an applied research project »Smart ICT Solutions for Active and Healthy Ageing: Integrating Informal e-Care Services in Slovenia«.

Between 9 March and 10 March 2016, the Centre for Social Informatics and the Chair of Social Informatics and Methodology hosted Prof. Dr. Michael Bošnjak from Gesis. He carried out two workshops on meta-analysis within the doctoral study of statistics.

In February 2016 the project “With speech against hate speech: Commissioning of an independent connecting body” was successfully concluded. The project was launched in March 2014 and financed by EEA Grants in Norway Grants.

On 18 February 2016, the Faculty of Social Sciences hosted the launch of the Slovenian ECHAlliance Ecosystem in cooperation with the European initiative ECHAlliance, the Coral network and the Centre for Social Informatics, represented by Dr. Vesna Dolničar.