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The Scientific Council of UP IAM, at its 9th regular session held on May 26, 2025, adopted a Resolution to Initiate the Procedure for the Election of the Director of the Andrej Marušič Institute, University of Primorska.

On Wednesday, 21 May 2025, the Second meeting of PhD mentors was held at UP, organized by the Department for Research, Development and Artistic Activities. The event was attended by mentors (as well as co-mentors) of doctoral students who are pursuing their studies at UP.

From May 20 to 22, 2025, the University of Primorska (UP) and InnoRenew CoE hosted a three-day workshop titled Wood Science Beyond Europe, which brought together numerous experts in the field. Among the participants were internationally renowned wood science experts from Oregon State University, Dr. Laurence Schimleck and Dr. Scott Leavengood, the latter joining the event virtually.

As part of the GDI UP project – Green, Digital and Inclusive University of Primorska – the UP has developed a new higher education study programme Wood Innovation for Sustainability. At its 20th regular meeting (May 21, 2025), the UP Senate approved the application for accreditation of the degree program, which will be forwarded to the Council of the Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (NAKVIS) for further examination and decision-making.

The Middle-European Conference on Applied Theoretical Computer Science (MATCOS-25) will be held October 9-10, 2025, in Koper, Slovenia. The conference is organised by the University of Primorska, Andrej Marušič Institute (UP IAM), and the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies (UP Famnit) in cooperation with InnoRenew CoE.

The Horizon Europe WoodStock project recently launched its website. Explore the latest updates, discover the project goals, and learn how the Horizon Europe WoodStock project is contributing to Europe’s carbon neutrality ambitions by visiting the website at www.woodstockproject.eu.

Today we hosted the final meeting of the Erasmus+ KA220 project FTDCHE/Sollertia - Promotion of Transversal Digital Competences in Higher Education.

Yesterday, on April 8th, Meta Lavrič successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled Experiencing Storytelling: Developing and Sharing Written Stories as an Intervention to Strengthen Mental Health in Gatekeepers, under the supervision of Professor Vita Poštuvan.

FTP (Faculty Tournament in Programming) is a competition where students have the opportunity to test their programming skills in a fun way. Participants develop a program (Player) that plays a turn-based game on their behalf against other competitors. The goal is to create a program (Player) that responds best to the strategies of other competitors without access to their source code.

Prof. Dr. Vita Poštuvan, Deputy Head of the Slovene Centre for Suicide Research at UP IAM and lecturer at the Department of Psychology at UP FAMNIT, participated as a speaker at the UNECE Regional Forum 2025, organised by the UNESCO Regional Office for Science and Culture in Europe.

Meta Lavrič, student of the doctoral study programe Suicidology and Mental Health (in Slovene) at UP FAMNIT, and researcher at UP IAM SCSR, will defend her doctoral thesis Experiencing Storytelling: Developing and Sharing Written Stories as an Intervention to Strengthen Mental Health in Gatekeepers, under the mentorship of Prof Dr Vita Poštuvan.

The defence will take place on Tuesday, 8 April 2025 at 11:30 in the Conference Room UP FAMNIT (Glagoljaška 8, ground floor).

The doctoral disertation is available in the University Library.

You are kindly invited!

Researchers from UP FAMNIT and UP IAM received the Best Paper Award at the 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2025), held from March 24 to 27 in Cagliari, Italy. This prestigious award recognizes groundbreaking research in the field of intelligent user interfaces, highlighting work that is expected to significantly influence the future of computing.

The University of Primorska has published a Call for Young Researchers who will undergo a four-year training programme consisting of research and academic components, based on a full-time employment contract. Each young researcher will conduct a research project under the supervision of a mentor, aligned with the specific research programme.

Slovenia has won a European tender for a high-performance supercomputer. It achieved the highest score among the applicants and the project was widely praised. IZUM Director Aleš Bošnjak believes that Slovenia's success in the tender is due to the fact that Slovenia was the first of the eight applicants in the tender to set up a supercomputer in 2021. 

The Jožef Stefan Institute has launched a public call for applications for the award “zlati znak Jožefa Stefana” (Jožef Stefan Golden Emblem), which recognises the most outstanding doctorates awarded to young researchers in the Republic of Slovenia in the last three years in the fields of Natural, Mathematical, Technical, and Life Sciences.