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Barbara Brečko, PhD, member of Centre for Social Informatics, participated with JRC in the development of digital competences framework in the context of the EU digital market.

On 4th and 5th of April the first of nine Exchange of Experience and Peer Evaluation (EEPE) events took place in Liverpool. EEPE events focus on the host region’s strategies, policy framework and ecosystem for scaling up smart health and care solutions and its methods, resources, track record, plans, results and experiences across the innovation cycle.

Representatives of the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) took part in the kick-off meeting of the Excellence in ReSTI project, which was held in Vienna on 29 March 2017.

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.

In the past year the CSI members published seven scientific articles and two chapters in one monograph.

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.