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From January 30, 2024 to February 1, 2024, a training marathon was held in the Slovenian city of Kranj as part of the Erasmus+ EverGreen project.
This project focuses on environmental data analytics.The first day started with engaging lectures and continued with practical experiences with Orange tools developed by Slovenian students. The second day was focused on applications of machine learning, statistics and analytics in the Python environment. There were also presentations and discussions about the analytics in the Oracle Cloud environment.The training ended with a visit to the administration department of the Triglav National Park, where we learned about their daily tasks managed by the technologies and decision-making processes. We focused on evaluating environmental data provided by the national park. We also visited the business center Kovačnica, where we attended lectures prepared by the municipality of Kranj. We also established cooperation in the field of data analysis of the city and the smart city concept, there.
The training covered several universities - University of Žilina, University of Maribor, University of Pardubice, Polytechnic Šibenik, Oracle and technological incubator Trokut.
Our university was actively represented by assoc. prof. Michal Kvet and assoc. prof. Marek Kvet.
For the New Year 2024, we wish you good health and success in your student, academic and especially in your personal life. We wish to all students a lot of patience while studying for their exams. To the graduating students, we wish you successful completion of the state examinations and the final thesis. We wish our teaching staff a lot of energy in their teaching activities and research projects. Let us have a successful year 2024.
From 8 December to 10 December, the Central European round of the programming contest ACM ICPC - CERC 2023 took place in Ljubljana. It was attended by 2 teams from our faculty. A total of 60 teams from 7 countries (Czech Republic, Croatia, Latvia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia) participated in the contest.
The Central European CERC region is one of the most difficult regions in the world in this contest. That is why we are happy that our teams placed a nice 47th and 49th in this very strong competition.
| Ranking | Team members | Solved tasks |
|---|---|---|
| 47. | Mário Husár, Tomáš Lokša, Miloš Murín | 2 |
| 49. | Juraj Beňo, Richard Závodský, Erik Zemčík | 2 |
On the occasion of the partnership, KROS was awarded with a commemorative medal for the company's long-term contribution to the development of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina. This commemorative medal was awarded on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the University of Žilina. The commemorative medal from the hands of Mr. Dean prof. Ing. Emil Kršák, PhD. received the CEO of the company Mrs Janka Haderková. The awarded commemorative medal is a token of our gratitude for the long-lasting cooperation.
We are very pleased that we can continue and deepen our cooperation with KROS, which has long supported the faculty in various areas. For example, through expert lectures, the popular KROS chill zone in the RB building, participation of the company's experts in state exam committees for bachelor's and master's thesis, topics for bachelor's and master's theses, interesting competitions organized at the traditional FRIčkovica event, etc.
Wonderful Advent markets, nice live music, great participation of the academic community, successful collection of financial contributions for St. Nicholas' gift for children at the pediatric ward of the hospital in Žilina and dogs in the Žilina shelter and especially plenty of good quality FRI punch. The 12th year of the FRI punch event can therefore be rightly described as very successful. Huge thanks for the organization of the event go to the students from the FRI club. We are looking forward to the next edition.
The Faculty of Organization and Informatics (FOI) in Varaždin, part of the University of Zagreb, celebrated Faculty Day on Friday, 15 December 2023, at a festive gathering of the academic community in the Croatian National Theatre. The event was attended by a large number of students, teaching and non-teaching staff, industrial partners and partner institutions from abroad. The faculty with one of Croatia's longest traditions of educating IT professionals was founded 61 years ago as the Higher School of Economics. It was transformed into a faculty of the University of Zagreb in 1975. The grand ceremony at the Croatian National Theatre was also marked by awarding prizes, recognitions and certificates of appreciation to students, teachers and non-teaching staff who have enriched the FOI and the wider academic community through their excellence and activity.
The "Friend of the FOI Faculty" award for promotion and international cooperation with the faculty this year went to Assoc. Ing. Peter Márton, PhD., Vice Dean for International Relations of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina. We warmly congratulate our colleague Peter and wish him many more successes in building contacts and expanding the offer of foreign mobility for our students.
We are happy to inform you about the success of our PhD. student, Ms. Ing. Dominika Petríková, who placed 1st in the final results of the grant competition of the University of Žilina in the category of PhD. students. The evaluation committee was composed of representatives of all faculties of UNIZA and it evaluated her project entitled "Processing of histological images and prediction of immunochemical tissue staining from baseline hematoxylin-eosin staining images using deep neural networks" with a score of 4.61 (out of 5 possible points). We warmly congratulate Dominika and wish her many more successes in her scientific research activities.
On 9 November, academic graduation ceremonies for new associate professors and successful PhD. graduates were held in the Datalan auditorium of the University of Žilina. The Vice Rector for Development, on behalf of the Rector of the University of Žilina, ceremonially handed over the associate professor's decree to the new associate professor Patrik Hrkút. The Dean of the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics handed over the documents of completion of doctoral studies to five graduates of the third level of higher education – Marián Šotek, Alžbeta Bugáňová, Marek Baláž, Jaroslav Kopčan, Michal Šterbák. We heartily congratulate them on the awarded titles.
We are pleased to inform you that on 15 December, the IT cluster ZAIT was awarded a commemorative medal for the long-standing contribution of the IT cluster to the development of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina. This medal is awarded on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the University of Žilina. The commemorative medal from the hands of the Dean Prof. Ing. Emil Kršák, PhD. received the President of the Association Mr. Ing. Marián Koprda. The awarded commemorative medal is a token of our gratitude for the long-standing cooperation.
The Faculty of Management and Informatics of UNIZA is a proud member of the IT cluster ZAIT, within which it participates in the fulfillment of the common goals of this association. We are very pleased that together we can develop the IT community in Žilina town and the Žilina region. Through our joint activities, we have managed to increase the number of applications to our attractive study programmes by more than 60% over the last six years. We are very pleased to see that the proportion of girls in IT-oriented study programmes is growing.
We look forward to deepening and developing our collaboration in 2024.
We would like to proudly announce that the Slovak Office of Standards, Metrology and Testing, as the coordinator of the state quality policy, awarded on 9 November 2023 in the Historical Building of the National Council of the Slovak Republic in Bratislava during the award ceremony our colleague Assoc. Ing. Miroslav Hrnčiar, PhD. He was awarded for his lifetime contribution to the field of quality management. We warmly congratulate Mr. Miroslav Hrnciar and wish him many more successes. At the same time, we would like to thank him for his contribution to developing the field of quality management at our faculty.
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