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Students of our faculty decided about winner of our photo contest of Erasmus+ outgoing students. Photos received 1020 likes. We congratulate to winners. We thank to all participants. "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." Saint Augustine
1. place – 160 likes
Viktor Tešlár, Reindeer Riding, University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland
Slavomíra Kureková, Aurora, University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland
Filip Jančovič, "After three months, I finally found him and went straight to the sunset ... Hill in Finland." University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland
Lenka Jánošová, "One of the best experiences - the Benagil Sea Cave, where we fell on a paddleboard", University of Porto, Algarve, Portugal
We are starting new round of contest of pictures made by our Erasmus+ outgoing students. Vote for your favorite picture. Give a like on Facebook - till April 26th 2019 @FRIuniza.
We warmly congratulate our colleague Dr. Marek Moravčík from Department of Info-Comm Networks. He was awarded by Cisco Networking Academy in year 2018 as in category Instructor Excellence Award Advanced. In this category, there are the best of 25% instructors of Cisco Networking Academy from all the world.
We are glad that we have two invited teachers at our faculty. Colleagues are from TU Dresden, "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences. We would like to invite you for their lectures on Thursday 04.04.2019. See more information in attached posters.
Show us the best moment of your Erasmus Life in Žilina and maybe win a prize! Just by sending a picture via Mail, read on!
How to take part:
You've spent at least two months in Žilina. Time enough to already have made some great experiences that you hopefully caught on picture.
Now, send us your nicest, funniest or simply best picture of your Erasmus stay in Žilina until the 15th of March via mail (Peter.Marton@fri.uniza.sk; by sending us your photos you give us the rights to publish them!).
Rules:
- Everybody can only send 1 picture
- Maximum 5 people are allowed to be on that photo.
- Write at least one sentence as a description and don't forget to mention your name and nationality.
On the 18th of April, we'll post the pictures in a photo album on our FB page and everybody can vote by "liking". After twelve days (on the 30th), winners will be declared (most likes wins).
1. Prize: 30€ Amazon Gift Card
2. Prize: 20€ Amazon Gift Card
3. Prize: 15€ Amazon Gift Card
Note: To make the photos into posters the quality should be good enough of course.
We are glad that we can again offer to our students interesting lectures of Mr. Jorma Imppola from Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, Finland. Mr. Imppola is traditional hosting teacher. Cooperation between the University of Žilina and the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences has long tradition, near 20 years. Mr. Imppola will teach at the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics (FRI UNIZA) and the Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications.
Program of his lectures and exercises at FRI UNIZA:
26.02.2019 - RC009 - 12:00 h - lecture in frame of the Innovation Management course
27.02.2019 - RC009 - 13:00 h - lecture in frame of the Sociology course
04.03.2019 - RA009 - 09:00 h - RA320 - 16:00 h - exercises in frame of the Innovation management course
06.03.2019 - RC009 - 13:00 h - lecture in frame of the Sociology course
We are glad to inform you about invited lectures of two foreign colleagues.
Dr. Joanna Kołodziejczyk arrived in frame of Erasmus+ teaching mobility. She is from Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Informatics, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland. She will teach our students on Wednesday, 20.02.2019 at 3 PM in frame of Metaheuristics course (room RB054). For Thursday 21.02.2019, she prepared lecture about SYSABA project - Support system for centers of behavioral therapy working with people affected by developmental disorders. This lecture will be in room RA222, at 2.30 PM.
On Friday, 22.02.2019, professor Vyacheslav Kharchenko from Department of Computer Systems, Networks and Cybersecurity, National Aerospace University„Kharkiv Aviation Institute“ KhAI, Ukraine, will hold his lecture about "Big Data, Internet of Things and Dependable Computing: Pro and Contra". This lecture will be in room RB053, at 11 AM. Prof. Kharchenko is at our faculty in frame of National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic.
At February 11th 2019, an interesting training in IT was started at our faculty. The Women Data Academy (WDA) is organized by "Aj Ty v IT" civic association. Participants will study two months and after successful study they will be able work in field of data analytics.
Content of training:
- mathematical and statistical terminology
- the basics of the Python programming language
- data wrangling (Pandas)
- basic analyst with MS Excel
- Pivot tables
- exploratory analysis
- SQL - linking to databases, queries, joins
- data visualization
- machine learning - Introduction to DataScience, Supervised learning, Unsupervised learning
From Friday, 15.02.2019, our faculty will host another foreign researcher, scholar of the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic. Prof. Vyacheslav Kharchenko from Department of Computer Systems, Networks and CybersecurityNational Aerospace University„Kharkiv Aviation Institute“ KhAI, Ukraine, will participate in research in the area of analysis and evaluation of multi-level degradation of high available and safety critical systems and infrastractures. His research stay has duration of one month.
Currently, we have one scholar from Brazil at the faculty, Ms. Isabelle Maza Guimaraes from Universidade Federal Fluminense. She participates on research of Cell-In-Fluid research group.
Several months ago, Mrs. Iryna Piestova from the Scientific Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth) spent his scholarship at our faculty, from May 28th till July 29th 2018.
The Government of the Slovak Republic approved the establishment of the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic for the support of mobility of students, PhD students, university teachers, researchers and artists in 2005. The National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic (NSP) is funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic.
Next dead-line for applications for the scholarship is at April 30th 2019.
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