Monday, 3 October 2022 We are starting the academic year with the biggest generation of Famnit students to date
The academic year 2022/23 began with a traditional ceremony, which took place this year in the Livade 1.0 building in Izola, where the management of the university and its members, representatives of the municipalities of Slovenian Istria, representatives of the UP Student Council and the UP Student Organization (ŠOUP) gathered. The rector of the University of Primorska, Prof. Klavdija Kutnar, was first to address the students in her speech.
In Izola, freshmen students of the undergraduate study programs Mediterranean Agriculture and Conservation Biology were also present, and after the official part of the event, they had meetings with the coordinators of the study programs in the modernly equipped lecture rooms of Livade 1.0.
In the morning, we welcomed other students from the other undergraduate programs in the Museum Park in front of UP FAMNIT in Koper. After taking a group photo, the students went to the lecture rooms, where together with the program coordinators, they watched the live broadcast from the event in Izola.
Via a recorded speech, the dean of UP FAMNIT, Assoc. Prof. Ademir Hujdurović, also shared his thoughts at the beginning of the new academic year.
UP rector's speech in Livade
Group photo of Famnit's freshmen students of the Mediterranean Agriculture and Conservation Biology study programs with the Dean of UP FAMNIT in front of the Livade 1.0 building
Group photo of Famnit's freshmen students and tutor students in the Museum Square, Koper
In the name of starting the academic year with a modern and greener approach to communication with students, we also presented the STUDO application, which is intended for all students and provides quick and easy access to key university information. Within it, as the first university in Slovenia, we are also presenting a digital student card, with which we step into a greener and more sustainable future.
After the meetings with the coordinators, there was a meeting with this year's tutors, who are available to the students to solve any problems and help them get started in student life.
The events at the beginning of the new academic year will continue on Saturday, October 8, when we will hold the Štart UP event at the Žusterna Park - a sports and social event for all UP students, where presentations will be made by various organizations from the University and from the local environment. Students will have the opportunity to win prizes for successfully completed activities at individual points throughout the day.
Some more statistics
At UP FAMNIT, we welcomed the 16th generation of students, this year again the biggest so far.
The final enrolment statistics for the academic year 2022/2023 will be definite by the end of this month, however, according to unofficial data, 933 students are enrolled at the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, of which 440 come from abroad, which represents as much as 47 percent. Foreign students come from 27 countries: North Macedonia, Ghana, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Croatia, Russia, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Belarus, India, Montenegro, United States of America, Philippines, Greece, Spain, Hungary, Bulgaria , China, Bangladesh, Estonia, Brazil, Iran, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Poland and Tunisia.
361 students are enrolled in the first year for the first time this academic year; 278 of them in undergraduate study programs, 68 in Master's programs, and 15 students are enrolled in the first year of doctoral programs.
We wish all students a successful, interesting and fun academic year!
