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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.

In July 2017, the JUST project"Click-off! Stop cyber violence against women and girls" was lunched. The project is co-financed by the EC Directorate - General Justice and Consumers and coordinated by the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of the Republic of Slovenia. The University of Ljubljana Faculty of Social Sciences participates in the project as partner.

Within the Erasmus + mobility Programme the CSI hosted dr. Iolie Nicolaidou from Cyprus University of Technology, Department of Communication and Internet Studies.

The first national stakeholders' meeting of the Interreg Europe ITHACA project was held at the Faculty of Social Sciences on 22 June 2017. ITHACA involves nine EU regions with a 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 wellbeing of Europe’s citizens.

Associate prof. dr. Katja Lozar Manfreda attended ITACOSM 2017 – the 5th ITAlian COnference on Survey Methodology which took place from June 14 to June 16, 2017 at the University of Bologna, Department of Statistical Sciences.