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Kick-off meeting of the Erasmus+ K220-HED project entitled "BEE with APEX" (Better Employability for Everyone with APEX) took place on Wednesday, 26 January 2022.
Six universities are cooperating in the project: SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU (Croatia), AKADEMIA LEONA KOZMINSKIEGO (Poland), DIETHNES PANEPISTIMIO ELLADOS (Greece), UNIVERSITAT LINZ (Austria) and of course the UNIVERSITY OF ŽILINA. The project coordinator is the UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR (Slovenia). The coordinator for our faculty is assoc. prof. Ing. Michal Kvet, PhD. and prof. Ing. Karol Matiaško, PhD. The aim of the project is to create a learning platform for creating applications using ORACLE APEX technology. We wish our colleagues a lot of success in the implementation of this interesting project and the subsequent introduction of results into teaching process.
Members of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics of the University of Žilina elected on 21 January 2022 at their session the candidate for the Dean of the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics for the period 1 April 2022 - 31 March 2026.
The candidate was elected
Assoc. Prof. Ing. Emil Kršák, PhD.
the current dean of the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics
We are pleased to announce the signing of a memorandum of cooperation with our long-term partner - the IPESOFT company. We are expanding the list of industry partners that support us improve our attractive study programs. We are looking forward to intensive cooperation in the field of education.
On Wednesday, January 20th and Thursday, January 21st 2022, the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics organised the kick-off meeting of the Erasmus+ KA220-SCH - project titled OOP4FUN - Object Oriented Programming for Fun. Our institution is the project coordinator.
The 32-month
project is funded under the Erasmus + program “Cooperation partnerships
in school education” of the European Commission in the total
amount of 283.228,00€.
The main project idea
is to support secondary schools’ teachers of programming courses in their
mission of IT education, independently if their students will be the IT experts
with HEI education in the future or experts in other fields. Therefore the goals
of this project are to create new or upgraded curricula for IT courses and
innovative teaching method that includes implementation of agile methods,
communication skills, and teamwork, to teach the high school educators how to
implement a new curriculum through educational workshops and other educational
activities and to develop teaching and learning object oriented programming
through game development as a way of motivating both male and female students
to work in a team project and increase their interest in object oriented
programming and STEM in general.
Although the first meeting had to be held online, the partners managed to achieve the goal of getting to know the partners teams involved and to make the initial project overview and coordination of the project management activities and first project result which 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 informatics/computer science and high schools are: the Faculty of Organisation and Informatics the University of Zagreb, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics the University of Pardubice, the Faculty of Organisational Sciences University of Beograd, Srednja škola Ivanec, Gymnazium Pardubice, Obchodna akademia Považská Bystrica, the University of Applied Sciences HTW Dresden, Gimnazija Ivanjica and Gymnasium Dresden-Plauen.
The expected impact of this project can be seen through target groups (secondary school teachers, high school students), participants and industry, use of modern methods of agile software development and technologies in pedagogical practice following the principles of Education 4.0. This way of teaching will provide students with soft skills to be able to utilize in the fields not related to STEM as well (critical thinking, teamwork, communication, work with information sources, etc.). An increase in motivation of students naturally leads to the raise of their knowledge which will give students a good base for further study in universities.
The national coordinator of the project is our faculty and more information on the expected results, activities, events, materials, and partners involved will be available on the official project website https://www.oop4fun.eu/ and Facebook and LinkedIn of the project.
We would like to invite you to a lecture on Health information systems and eHealth of Dr. Paula Veikkolainen from University of Oulu, Finland. The lecture will be held online using MS Teams on December 16, 2021 at 16:00 and will be composed of two parts.
The first part of the lecture entitled Data transfer within the health care system, requirements and standards covers the concept of interoperability and related terms in healthcare system, provides short introduction of some of the most important standards related to data transfer and interoperability (DICOM, HL7, HL7 CDA, HL7 FHIR, ICD-10, SNOMED CT, openEHR and CEN/ISO 13606) and finally presents the role of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise.
The second part entitled Secondary use of health and social data covers introduction of secondary use of data and key concepts, relationship between European GDPR and secondary use of data, an example of national legislation in a form on introduction of The Finnish Act on the Secondary Use of Health and Social Data and national data permit authority FinData, short discussion about data privacy and protection issues related to the topic and finally introduction of European Health Data Space.
The lecture is organized as a part of the Erasmus+ CeBMI project, which focuses on supporting the teaching of biomedical informatics.
Link to the lecture can be found here.
OPTIMA project –
Communication Platform for Traffic Management Demonstrator - is covered by the Shift2Rail IP2, focused on control, command and communication systems of the railway system. The EU-funded OPTIMA project is designing and developing a communication platform to manage the connection between several services supporting transportation management system (TMS) applications. The platform will link TMS applications with infrastructure systems such as traffic control, maintenance, energy management and signalling. The platform will consolidate real-time data from the railway business service, test the connection of several rail business services with external services and provide a perfectly documented communication platform for supplementary projects. OPTIMA is advanced by a consortium of research institutions, industrial stakeholders and infrastructure managers specialising in traffic control and management.
In September 2019, the new study program on biomedical informatics was opened at the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics. The graduates of this study program should be employed primarily in the areas of design and implementation of information systems for medical facilities and in analysis of medical and biomedical data using machine learning. Course on basics of theoretical medicine is also a part of this unique study program. By completing this course, students will get acquainted with the creation of expressions and phrases used in medical terminology, acquire basic knowledge about the anatomy of the human body and, in practical classes, they will get acquainted with the basics of three-dimensional (3D) modeling, its use in medical practice and with creation of animation in Blender.
A typical use of three-dimensional modeling for medical purposes is to create models for medical simulators based on virtual or augmented reality. In addition to such use, a combination of three-dimensional modeling with 3D printing has become popular and useful in creation of prostheses and implants, in planning and preparation of complex surgery, in creation of teaching equipment or artificial organs in the form of so-called bioprinting. The possibility of creating teaching equipment motivated teachers of the course on the basics of theoretical medicine to apply for a grant from the Tatra banka Foundation in order to purchase a 3D printer and use it to print models of selected organs of the human body. This grant was obtained, and thanks to it, a 3D printer with stereolithography technology was purchased in the year 2020. This printer allows to create very detailed prints (height of one layer at the level of 0.025 - 0.1 mm and resolution in the x and y axes at the level of 47 μm).
During the year 2021, the teachers of the course on the basics of theoretical medicine as well as other employees of the Department of Informatics have created and modified 3D models of selected organs of the human body for the needs of 3D printing. These have been printed on the purchased 3D printer and cleaned in a curing and washing machine supplied with the 3D printer. Although due to the current pandemic situation it is not possible to teach the course in a face-to-face form, we hope that the printed models of human body organs will be illustrative teaching equipment that students can use to learn the basics of human body anatomy.
On Monday, October 11, 2021, representatives of EIT Manufacturing and the Gaia-X project, in which the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics UNIZA also participates, will visit the faculty. We would like to invite you to the presentation part of the visit from 10:00 to 12:45, during which presentations of EIT Manufacturing and their project EuProGigant, Gaia-X Hub Greece, EIT Manufacturing HUB, Gaia-X Hub Slovakia and Faculty of Management Science and Informatics UNIZA will take place.
You can find more information on the attached poster.
You can attend thr presentation online through a meeting via MS Teams.
We are looking forward to your participation.
We would like to invite you to a lecture of Dr. Anna Khyzhniak (Scientific Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine) on “Advanced Remote Sensing in CASRE – System Analysis and Remote Sensing” that will be held in room RA201 at 11:00 on September 14, 2021. Dr. Khyzhniak is currently at her research mobility at our faculty. The mobility is financed by the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic.
On September 11, 2020, the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, the University of Žilina, was co-organizing the online workshop dedicated to the automated vehicles. This stakeholder evaluation workshop was managed by the colleagues from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in the frame of the Drive2theFuture project. This project is supported by the EC in the frame of the H2020 research and innovation programme. The goal of the workshop was to gain the opinion of the stakeholders, how the automated vehicle may influence different impact areas (safety, security, environment, traffic efficiency, user acceptance, market penetration, socio, economics, policy, regulatory) of the future transport and logistics.
Discussion of participants and moderators divided into the five stakeholders’ groups (Citizens, Senders, Receivers, Logistic Service Providers, Local Authorities) covered five logistics scenarios of the automated vehicles application:
Scenario 0: Business as Usual (BAU)
Scenario 1: automated freight transport last-mile delivery (air)
Scenario 2: automated freight transport last-mile delivery – shared with passenger transport (road)
Scenario 3: automated freight transport long-haul (rail)
Scenario 4: automated freight transport long-haul (road)
The overall result of this discussion is presented in the picture.
Based on the overall result, the stakeholder’s representatives accept the role of automated vehicles. The automated vehicles used for long-haul freight transport (rail and road) have higher acceptance. The last mile delivery is strongly supported by the logistic service providers and the local authorities. This is the result gained from the discussion of 24 experts from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The more complete results will be available when other similar workshops will be organized and evaluated.
We would like to thank the following institutions for allowing their representatives to take part in our workshop:
Mulica o.z. – civic association, The Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovicie, KIA Motors Slovakia, ČESMAD – the association of road transport operators of the Slovak Republic, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry Association, Slovakia, College of Logistics Přerov, PKP Cargo International, RTI Wagon s.r.o., VVUŽ ŽSR (Research institute of ŽSR)
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