Monday, 16 October 2017 Meet up party 2017/18
UP FAMNIT Student council warmly invites students and employees to the traditional Meet up party in the beginning of the year.
We will hang out in Center Adria Bowling in Ankaran (Jadranska certa 25) on Wednesday 25 October, starting from 8 PM.
You can reach Ankaran from Koper by Arriva public bus or by taking the bus organized by the Student Council which will leave from Koper at 7.30 PM (Bus station by the market) and from Ankaran (back to Koper) at 1.00 AM.
Entrance is free for all Famnit students and employees but everyone has to register HERE.
More info at: studentski-svet@famnit.upr.si
See you in Ankaran!
Sunday, 15 October 2017 Alpine Europe Summer School Video released!
Between 28 and 30 June 2017, a diverse group of international students participated to the summer school The Forest Sector’s Contribution to Sustainability of the Built Environment in Alpine Europe, which was organised jointly by the University of Primorska Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies and Oregon State University College of Forestry (USA).
Young researchers from Finland, Indonesia, China, Sweden, Ukraine, United States of America and Slovenia traveled for two weeks, during which they learned about traditional and modern architecture of the built environment and explored good practices related to wood use in Slovenia, Italy, Austria and Switzerland.
Watch the wonderful video about the summer school produced by OSU and read the blog maintained by the participants of the summer school.
Friday, 6 October 2017 UP Scholarship Fund - Call for applications
The call for scholarship applications of the Scholarship Fund of the University of Primorska has been published on Friday, 6 October 2017.
Students who would like to apply must submit the requested documentation by Sunday 15 October 2017.
The Scholarship Found of the University of Primorska is managed by the University, while it is supported by national, municipal, private and other financial sources. Special emphasis is given on linking students with prospective employers, who invest in the scholarship fund and also have an option to choose which students they will support with their funds.
You can read more about this year invitation here (find the documents in English), for more information please contact the Career Centre of the University of Primorska (05/61 17 636, kariernicenter@upr.si).
Friday, 6 October 2017 Special issue of Discrete Applied Mathematics devoted to the workshop AGTAC (Koper, 2015)
We are very proud to announce that a special issue of Discrete Applied Mathematics is now online. It is devoted to the workshop AGTAC - Algorithmic Graph Theory on the Adriatic Coast which was held at the University of Primorska in June 2015.
The scientific meeting was organized by UP FAMNIT and UP IAM and was attended by 100 participants from 21 contries.
Check the Guest editor's foreword and read the other interesting contributions about new results on topics in structural, algorithmic, and extremal graph theory.
Congratulations to the authors, editors and AGTAC organisers for the successful work!
(Participants of the workshop Algorithmic Graph Theory on the Adriatic Coast)
Monday, 2 October 2017 UP FAMNIT welcomes 76 new students from abroad!
This year the number of students from abroad who decided to study at UP FAMNIT has significantly increased: today we welcomed 76 new freshmen from 16 countries! In addition, there are 19 more students who came to Koper through programmes such as Erasmus+ and Erasmus Mundus.
Students from abroad represent almost 40 % of all FAMNIT freshmen and they come from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Italy, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Turkey and Uzbekistan.
Most of them have participated to UP Orientation days 2017 where they learned about Slovenia, Koper and their study obligations.
We wish to all of them a pleasant start of the new chapter of their life and a successful year!
