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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.

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.