Thursday, 20 March 2025 ONI 2.0 brings employees together also in 2025
Celebrating UP's 20th anniversary on Wednesday, employees wondered how we can be an even better version of ourselves, and UP 2.0 - the desire to progress - makes sense every year, so the name has been kept.
Wednesdays are thus dedicated to events for employees, who this year were also able to attend two events related to anniversaries: a round table and the handover of archival material on the founding of the university to the Koper Regional Archives, and an exhibition on space tourism, which was opened with a lecture in the Armeria Hall on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of UP FTŠ Turistica.
Already on Tuesday, there was a lecture, primarily aimed at researchers, but also useful for students and other employees - Dr. Ana Slavec (UP FAMNIT, InnoRenew CoE) gave an online lecture with some practical tips on "How to find and use research data?".
For those who wanted to relax and have some peace and quiet, the UP Book Club organised a popular silent reading party at the UP University Library (UP UK) - for the first time it was held in the library, so the staff could also get to know the facilities, which are the only ones in Slovenia that are accessible 24/7 for library members. The introduction to the culturally coloured day was the Tuesday concert of the UP PEF Girls' and Boys' Choir under the direction of senior lecturer Andrea Štucin Cergolj and assistant professor Dr. Barbara Kopačin, which took place in the Armerija Hall.
The employees acquired knowledge and skills at three workshops: at the workshop "How to Communicate Effectively?", Dr Vesna Jug (UP FAMNIT) touched upon communication filters and barriers, various communication skills with both practical demonstrations and exercises. At the Rectorate of UP, the "Interactive workshop for editors of the upr.si website (and other websites with this editor) - master CMS Ngn" took place, where Karin Marinič (Rectorate, SZK), digital content editor, demonstrated practical solutions for editing the site. The third workshop "5 X 5 language tips" (Dr Vladka Tucovič Sturman, UP FHŠ, UP PEF) took place at UP FHŠ, where the most common language slip-ups and their solutions were presented. The workshop activities will continue on Thursday for the student tutors, when they will have the second part of the Social Skills Training, conducted by mag. Urša Rozman (UP PEF).
UP FVZ ensured a healthy spirit with a hike along the green paths of Isola - the participants set off from the entrance of the UP FVZ building next to the hospital on an easy two-hour route.
At UP FM, Prof. Dr. Štefan Bojnec (UP FM) presented the important topic "Inclusive University and the Role of Gender" - UP emphasises the importance of an inclusive university, which in a world of diversity and trade-offs between globalisation and de-globalisation represents an element of an open university. The presentation gave different perspectives on diversity and providing an enabling environment of possibilities and opportunities for an inclusive university and gender equality.
In addition, two lectures were held in the framework of traditional events - the book Slovenian Migrations in Socialism was presented in the framework of the Historical Spring at UP FHŠ (Dr. Marina Lukšič Hacin, Dr. Marijanca Ajša Vižintin, Dr. Damir Josipovič, Dr. Aleksej Kalc), and in the framework of Famnit's trips into the mathematical universe, Dr. Štefko Miklavič presented Some Classical Results in Graph Theory.
The day ended with a protocol event - the inauguration of the new Dean of UP PEF, Dr. Tomaž Grušovnik, who was handed over the deanship by the current Dean, Dr. Mara Cotič.
The workshop "How to Communicate Effectively?"
