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The Conference brought together stakeholders, competent authorities, experts, and advocates in the field to reflect on the project's outcomes, share experiences and discuss further strategies to combat gender-based cyberviolence.

Luka Štrlekar (Master's student of Applied Statistics) and Vasja Vehovar, PhD (UL FDV) developed SurveyWeightingGUI: an open source application (programming language R) for weighting survey data.

The Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) has launched a new project "Analysis of online hate speech and disinformation in Slovenia and development of a proposal for action" in partnership with The Peace Institute. CSI's side of the project is led by Vasja Vehovar, PhD while the project as a whole is coordinated by Veronika Bajt, PhD at The Peace Institute.

Vasja Vehovar, PhD and Luka Štrlekar published the article "When to conduct student evaluation of teaching surveys: before or after the final examination?" in the American journal Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education.

The Internet Research programme group was ranked as one of the most successful programme groups in the call for funding for ARIS research programmes at the University of Ljubljana, and thus received the highest possible increase in funding.

The Centre for Social Informatics has launched a new project "Assessing and Modelling Unit Nonresponse Bias in Probability-Based Web Surveys" led by Gregor Čehovin, PhD.

​On November 29th 2023, Vasja Vehovar, PhD, Head of the Centre for Social Informatics and leader of the Safer Internet Centre project, participated in the Meta Economic Roundtable: Exploring the potential of the Metaverse.

The University of Ljubljana recently launched an exhibition in Tivoli titled Achievements of the University of Ljubljana Through the Eyes of Artists. Within the Faculty of Social Sciences, the exhibition also includes the 1KA application.

Jošt Bartol, member of the Centre for Social Informatics participated in the virtual conference of the Association for Internet Researchers (AoIR). He presented two original contributions which were prepared together with his co-authors dr. Andraž Petrovčič, dr. Marina Trkman, dr. Bianca C. Reisdorf and dr. Vasja Vehovar

Jošt Bartol, Dr. Vasja Vehovar, and Dr. Andraž Petrovčič published an original research article “Systematic review of survey scales measuring information privacy concerns on social network sites” in Telematics and Informatics, a top-tier journal in the field of social informatics.