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This year, we are celebrating 70 years since the founding of the University of Žilina. Our faculty - the Faculty of Management and Informatics is a proud part of the University of Žilina. On 30 November 2023, a ceremonial meeting of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina took place, at which commemorative medals were awarded as a token of our gratitude and respect to the personalities, thanks to whom today the Faculty of Management and Informatics is an established faculty recognized both at home and abroad, as evidenced by independent evaluations as well as the interest of students, employers and partners. The commemorative medals together with a letter of thanks were presented to the invited personalities for their long-standing contribution to the development of our alma mater by the Dean of the Faculty, prof. Ing. Emil Kršák, PhD.

Awarded personalities:

doc. Ing. Vladimír Jamrich, PhD.

For the development of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina in the positions of Dean of the Faculty and Vice Dean for Education.

doc. Mgr. Valent Klima, CSc.

For the development of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina in the position of Dean of the Faculty and the establishment of its own scientific school at the Department of Mathematical Methods and Operations Research.

prof. Ing. Karol Matiaško, PhD., in memoriam, the commemorative medal was received by the daughter JUDr. Zuzana Gottfriedová

For the significant development of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina in the positions of Dean of the Faculty, Vice-Dean for Education and Vice-Rector for Information Systems of the University of Žilina and the establishment of its own scientific schools at the Department of Informatics and the Department of Software Technologies.

prof. Ing. Matilda Drozdová, PhD.

For the development of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina in the positions of Vice Dean for International Cooperation and Vice Dean for Science and Research.

doc. Mgr. Martin Fronc, PhD.

For the development of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina in the positions of Vice-Dean for International Cooperation, Science and Research.

prof. Ing. Štefan Hittmár, PhD. DBA

For the development of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina in the positions of Vice Dean for Development and Vice Dean for Science and Research and the establishment of its own scientific school at the Department of Management Theories.

prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Janáček, CSc.

For the development of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina in the positions of Vice Dean for Education and Vice Dean for Science and Research and the establishment of its own scientific school at the Department of Mathematical Methods and Operations Research.

doc. Ing. Juraj Slovák, CSc.

For the development of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina in the positions of Vice Dean for International Cooperation and Vice-Dean for Science and Research.

RNDr. Ida Stankovianska, CSc.

For the development of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina in the position of Vice Dean for Education.

doc. Ing. Jozef Strišš, CSc.

For the establishment of his own scientific school at the Department of Management Theories and the development of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina in the position of Vice Dean for Education.

doc. Ing. Michal Zábovský, PhD.

For the development of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina in the position of Vice Dean for International Cooperation.

Ing. Beata Holková, PhD.

For the development of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina in the position of Bursar of the Faculty.

RNDr. Štefan Kovalík, PhD.

For the development of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina in the position of Head of the Academic Senate.

doc. Ing. Norbert Adamko, PhD.

For the development of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina in the position of Head of the Academic Senate of the faculty and Head of the Academic Senate of the university.

prof. Ing. Martin Klimo, PhD.

For the development of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina in the position of Head of the Academic Senate and for the development of its own scientific school at the Department of Information Networks.

prof. Ing. Ivan Brezina, CSc.

For many years of cooperation and development of mutual relations between the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina and the Faculty of Economic Informatics of the University of Economics in Bratislava.

prof. Ing. Pavel Čičák, PhD.

For many years of cooperation and development of mutual relations between the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina and the Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.

doc. Ing. et Ing. Renáta Myšková, Ph.D.

For many years of cooperation and development of mutual relations between the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina and the Faculty of Economics and Administration of the University of Pardubice.

prof. Ing. Jaroslav Porubän, PhD.

For many years of cooperation and development of mutual relations between the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Technical University in Košice.

prof. Ing. Karel Šotek, CSc.

For many years of cooperation and development of mutual relations between the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the University of Pardubice.

prof. Ing. Liberios Vokorokos, PhD.

For many years of cooperation and development of mutual relations between the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Technical University in Košice.

prof. Ing. Mikuláš Alexík, PhD.

For significant project activity and building of own scientific school at the Department of Technical Cybernetics, Faculty of Management and Informatics, University of Žilina.

prof. Ing. Dušan Marček, CSc.

For significant project activity and building of own scientific school at the Department of Macro and Microeconomics, Faculty of Management and Informatics, University of Žilina

doc. Ing. Miroslav Hrnčiar, PhD.

For significant project and research activities in the field of standardization and quality management at the Faculty of Management and Informatics and the University of Žilina.

prof. Ing. Juraj Miček, PhD.

For significant project activity and building of own scientific school at the Department of Technical Cybernetics, Faculty of Management and Informatics, University of Žilina.

doc. RNDr. Stanislav Palúch, CSc.

For significant project activity and building of own scientific school at the Department of Mathematical Methods and Operations Research, Faculty of Management and Informatics, University of Žilina.

prof. Ing. Elena Zaitseva, PhD.

For significant project activity and building of own scientific school at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Management and Informatics, University of Žilina.

prof. Ing. Ivan Kotuliak, PhD., The commemorative medal was received by prof. Čičák

For many years of cooperation and development of mutual relations between the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina and the Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.

Ing. Petra Kotuliaková, PhD., The commemorative medal was received by prof. Čičák

For many years of cooperation and development of mutual relations between the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina and the civic association Aj Ty v IT.

Ing. Peter Palúch, PhD., The commemorative medal was received by his father, Mr. Stanislav Palúch

For many years of cooperation and development of teaching computer networks at the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina in Žilina.

doc. RNDr. Ing. Marcel Jiřina, Ph.D., the commemorative medal will be awarded by the Dean prof. Kršák at the meeting of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Information Technology of Czech Technical Univesity

For many years of cooperation and development of mutual relations between the Faculty of Management and Informatics of the University of Žilina and the Faculty of Information Technology of the Czech Technical University in Prague.

Ceremonial meeting of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Management and Informatics of UNIZA:

On 5 December 2023, we welcomed at the Faculty of Management and Informatics of UNIZA representatives of IT companies (Scheidt&Bachmann Slovakia, Kros, Brain:IT, Globesy, Siemens Healthineers, M2M Solutions, DXC Technology), which presented a rich offer of job opportunities to our students in the frame of the St. Nicholas IT Job Fair. We are pleased to see the interest of both sides, companies and students, in this type of event. This event created an exceptional space for meeting clever students with successful IT companies. We look forward to the next edition.

Our graduate Ing. Linda Blahová took part in the final of the 14th elite IT Spy (IT Student Project of the Year) diploma thesis competition, organized by ACM Czech and Slovak Chapter in cooperation with Profinit company and with the support of several Slovak and Czech ministries and other institution. This competition was held in Prague on November 22, 2023. Linda's master thesis topic was "Processing and Evaluation of Graphical Biomedical Data". She won the Public Prize.

From a competition of more than 1200 diploma theses, created and defended at IT faculties of 20 Czech and Slovak universities, her mastert hesis qualified for the final round, in which the 8 best master theses participated. Congratulations to Linda for winning the award. 

We wish Mrs. Linda Blahová success in her professional activities as well as in her PhD study. We also congratulate the thesis supervisor Assoc. Prof. Ing. Jozef Kostolný, PhD. from the Department of Informatics.

OOP4FUN consortium gathered in Pardubice, Czech Republic on Thursday, 30 November 2023 and Friday, 1 December, to wrap up the 2^nd year of the project.

This hybrid transnational project meeting was held at the University of Pardubice, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics. The main aim of this meeting was to review and resume current project development and to agree on future project activities, milestones, events and deliverables.

The important part of the project meeting was a workshop where the project partners learned about the Greenfoot IDE, including the presentation and discussion regarding Project Result 3 “Developing of new syllabus for (teaching) programming”.

The summary of project result 2 “Learning design with new core idea of (teaching) programming” was also done.

Partners discussed project management, budget and deadlines. Presentation and discussion about the project partners' tasks on Project Result 4 “Materials for teachers - transfer of experience for current and future teachers + e-learning platform” defined future work for 2024.

A visit to Gymnasium Dašická (the project partner) was also organized.

Numerous events, of which multiplier events, teaching and training activity and the final conference are coming up in 2024. The end of the project is planned in September 2024.

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The project is focused on secondary school teachers.

We are preparing an overview of current methods, methodologies and concepts in programming for secondary school teachers.

We will prepare the syllabus and guides (textbooks + online content). We will prepare educational materials for future teachers when necessary.

A team of scientists and experts from the participating universities has a wide range of expertise, scientific and professional interests and achievements.

The main and unique mission of this international team could be to empower the curriculum and results of the projects aimed at students and teachers learning and teaching OOP through game development with knowledge and skills related to the development process and collaboration in real and virtual environments.

The project results with our expertise could be empowered by the following:

• Agile methods and tools in development
• Communication (tools) for teams
• Innovation in teaching methods

More about the project: https://oop4fun.eu/

Viac o projekte: https://oop4fun.eu/

Our colleague, Professor Ivan Cimrák, together with his team, participated in a research stay at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA. The mobility was part of a grant that was awarded to Professor Cimrák at the beginning of 2023. It's an MIT Seed Fund grant, which supports collaboration between research groups from around the world and research groups from MIT.
Part of the stay was also an invited lecture, at which Professor Cimrák presented research results at a regular seminar organized at the Department of Material Science and Engineering, MIT. In this way, research at FRI UNIZA reached the fifth most prestigious university in the world. The continuation of the cooperation will also be a reciprocal visit when Prof. Ming Dao and Dr. Yuhao Qiang will come to our faculty.
The scientific content of the grant concerns interdisciplinary cooperation between computational simulations (FRI UNIZA) and biological experiments with microfluidic devices (MIT). Specific research is in the field of inertial targeting of the cell stream with the aim of separating cancer cells and especially their cluster groupings.
We wish Prof. Cimrák and his research team (Mrs. Monika Smiešková, Mrs. Alžbeta Bugáňová and Mr. Michal Mulík) much success in their research activities.