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International Conference on Information and Digital Technologies 2021 will be held in Faculty of Management Science and Informatics from June 22nd, 2021 till June 24th, 2021. The papers presented at the Conference and included in the IDT 2021 Proceedings will be considered for indexing in Scopus.
We would like to invite you to participate in the second Slovak online mapping party (mapathon). Considering the current situation with Covid-19, the mapathons are organized as the online events.
We will help the Doctors without Borders by our mapathon. The volunteers will participate from Slovakia and the Czech Republic. We had the participants from Italy, Germany and Bangladesh in our first Slovak online mapathon in December 2020.
During our volunteer event, we will create a map of the area that is affected by some kind of humanitarian crisis. Our help will enable more effective and faster assistance to people in need.
What is the mapathon?
The mapathon participants work with the satellite images to map the uncovered places of the world (so called Missing maps). They are using the open source tools in online environment of the OpenStreetMap. Participants create new map layers of buildings and roads.
Our mapathon will take on Thursday, February 25, from 04:00 p.m., Central European Time. The link for joining the event will be published later here. We would like to ask all interested in the event to use the application form on Eventbrite.
Do not worry that you have no experience with the digital mapping. You can learn all during the event. You will be able to create the map objects after the short training. Please, create a new OpenStreetMap account in case you do not posses it.
Details of the Missing Maps mapathons organized in Slovakia are available on Missing Maps Slovakia project web.
The Erasmus+ KA203 project led by the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics - "Education of Future ICT Experts Based on Smart Society Needs" will continue from Monday, February 15, 2021, with the second blended mobility. More than 80 participants of this project activity will cooperate on the development of the business plans for 10 start-ups based on the entrepreneurial case studies. The students from ICT oriended study programs from 15 European universities and 10 countries will take part. The second blended mobility of the SmartSoc project has more than 80 participants - 51 students and 32 teachers. We would like to introduce ten entrepreneurial case studies prepared by the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain), the Seinajoki University of Applied Sciences (Finland), IMT Atlantique Bretagne Pays de la Loire (France), the University of Debrecen (Hungary), the University of Zagreb (Croatia), the Szechenyi Egyetem - the University of Gyor (Hungary), the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland), European Institute for Labour and Industrial Relations (Germany), the Technical University of Sofia (Bulgary) and the Technical University of Kosice (Slovakia):
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Rector of the University of Žilina, Prof. Ing. Jozef Jandačka, PhD. awarded
scientific-pedagogical title of associate professor to
Ing. Jozef P A P Á N, PhD.
in the field of the applied informatics
with effect from January 1st, 2021.
Mr. Jozef Papán is a member of the Department of Info-Comm Networks. His habilitation lecture title - Advanced fast reroute techniques.
Our colleagues Mr. Martin Kontšek and Mr. Marek Moravčík from the Department of Computer Networks received successfully the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certificates.
This means that our faculty fulfilled the initial requirements to start our Amazon AWS academy. We congratulate our colleagues and wish them all the best.
This is a review of our activities and events from 2020. We are looking for 2021 :-)
#1 - Semi Final of the First Lego League Challenge
The Faculty of Management Science and Informatics wishes all students, all colleagues and our partners a Happy and Healthy New Year 2021. Thank you very much for the good cooperation and stay healthy!
During the previous week ( December 7 – 11), the first online school of the 3D printing was held at the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics of the University of Žilina. Students of the secondary schools were connected and solved the online tasks using the Microsoft Teams platform. They learned about the modelling basics, and 3D printing. They received the certificate on the end. There was a great interest for this online school. The organizers received about 180 applications. The faculty will organize other online 3D printing schools in January and February thanks this interest. 30 students from the secondary schools from different regions of Slovakia took part in this first online school. We are happy that students of the secondary schools are interested in the ICT. We wish them all the best.
We would like to thank to Mr. Lukas Cechovic from the Department of Technical Cybernetics. He was the main organizer and lecturer of the 3D printing online school. We would like to thank to our students from the Computer Engineering study programme. They supported the lectures. This 3D printing online school was organized in the frame of the national project "IT akadémia" (IT Academy).
On Tuesday, December 8, 2020, the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics participated in the kick-off meeting of the international strategic project in higher education titled TEACH4EDU4 - Accelerating the transition to Edu 4.0 in HEIs. The meeting was hosted by the project coordinator - the Faculty of Organization and Informatics (FOI) of the University of Zagreb. The 30-month project is funded under the Erasmus + program of the European Commission in the total amount of 296,845.00 euros.
The goal of this extremely important project is to advance higher education in the fast-growing field of computer sciences, in order to enable the teaching in line with the modern innovative world trends in hybrid and international environments and the needs of Industry 4.0.
Although the first meeting had to be held online, the partners managed to achieve the goal of getting to know the teams involved and to make the initial coordination of the activities and expected results that will enable them to explore, teach and implement the changes described as project objectives.
In addition to the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, the partners of this project include the leading European universities in the field of computer science and related sciences and educational sciences: Faculty of Organization and Informatics (coordinator) of the University of Zagreb (Croatia), The Open University (the United Kingdom), University of Belgrade (Serbia), Tallinn University (Estonia), Universita Degli Studi Dell'Aquila (Italy), and the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Spain).
During the project, the partners will jointly work on 5 main results and will start by creating a catalogue of innovative teaching methods and related skills in line with the needs of Industry 4.0, which will be coordinated by experts from the Open University (UK).
The contribution of the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics in this project includes the development of the Partnership Manifesto – Transferability of the developed learning design models. It means, we will coordinate the transfer of knowledge, experience to strengthen and broaden the project results beyond the project lifetime as well as to enable the transferability to other partnerships and domains.
One of the biggest expected impacts of the project will be that on higher education teachers and students from partner institutions who will gain valuable domain knowledge and unique experience of working and learning in international teams and the online environment through practical work in international online joint classrooms designed within this project.
The Virtual Teaching Mobility - Prof. Dr. Anna Sobczyk-Kolbuch from the Katowice Business University
Due to the Covid-19 disease, the Erasmus + teacher mobilities are not currently in form as we know them. An alternative solution is a virtual mobility, ie teaching from abroad online. We are glad that this possibility is used by our faculty.
In the week from 7 to 11 December 2020, the virtual guest at our faculty is prof. dr. Anna Sobczyk-Kolbuch, Vice-Dean for Foreign Relations, from the Katowice Business University. She holds her lectures and exercises within the course "Management Research". The Katowice Business University (Górnośląska Wyższa Szkoła Handlowa im. Wojciech Korfantego) is a new partner of our faculty. The bilateral agreement for Erasmus + was signed a year ago. Two colleagues from the Department of Management Theories will implement their virtual mobilities with this partner by the end of this semester.
This year, university teachers at UNIZA have the opportunity to apply for teacher mobility, both virtual and physical, on an ongoing basis. The implementation of physical mobilities is, of course, possible depending on the measures in force for the Covid-19 disease.
Similarly, the teachers from our partner institutions are invited for holding their virtual or physical mobilities at our faculty, during the summer semester (from February 22, 2021). More information will be provided by the Vice-Dean for International Relations, Faculty Coordinator Erasmus +, doc. Márton.
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