The European Researchers’ Night is held in nearly 300 European cities. This unique meeting between scientists and the general public will be held on September 25th in Ljubljana, Novo mesto, Izola and Planica. It is organized by Jožef Stefan Institute.

Started by the European Commission in 2005, the European Researchers’ Night is a unique opportunity for scientists to talk about their jobs. During the evening, the general public participates alongside researchers to better understand their world and the specificities of scientific culture.

The objective of all events corresponded to the WeForYou project main goal is “to enhance public recognition of researchers and their work, notably through offering the public at large, regardless of age and scientific background, opportunities to discover their human face and share with them experiments, ideas, problems, concerns, hopes, passions and fun”, as well as the following project objectives:

• Bringing researchers and public at large closer to one another, pointing out the “ordinary character” of the researchers and in such a way facilitating their integration in the social fabric;
• Stressing the societal importance of research, not only for competitiveness and economic growth but also towards citizens’ daily lives and well-being;
• Stimulating young people to embark on scientific careers by underlining the fascinating and fun aspects of research;
• Illustrating the European dimension of the event, pointing out the EU support in favour of researchers and research and underlining the importance of European and international cooperation in research.

The target audience include children, students, local authorities, researchers, teachers, etc.

Laboratory for Open Systems and Networks  obtained five new research projects from the 7th EU Framework Programme and the ISEC (Prevention of and fight against crime) programme in 2013. Two of them received the highest evaluation scores among more than 100 project proposals: EmployID in technology enhanced learning and COURAGE in security.

Goals of the COURAGE, REDIRNET and DFET projects are to deliver a measured, comprehensive, relevant research agenda for cyber crime and cyber terrorism, create an emergency responder data interoperability network, and create new cloud-based training methods/techniques to support judicial authorities, law enforcement agencies and associated stakeholders in the fight against cybercrime.

EmployID will support and facilitate the learning process of Public Employment Services (PES) practitioners in their professional identity transformation process, while  in the RENATECH project we have already organised very successful researchers’ night.

COURAGE, REDIRNET, EmployID and DFET will start their activities at the beginning of 2014.

Organizing Committee

Main goal of the TUTOREM Training School:

The overarching goal of TUTOREM is to improve participants’ understanding of significant research methods commonly or increasingly used in the field of HCI. Such an enhanced understanding will enable them to select and combine appropriate research methods for their specific HCI projects and to contextualise them without unintended impacts on validity. While we recognise the importance of theories that inform the development of research methods, due to the time constraint no session is dedicated to HCI theories. Nevertheless, relevant theoretical frameworks will be addressed in individual sessions of TUTOREM, which consist of lectures, workshops and discussions. In addition, student participants will collaboratively work in small groups on a mini-project with the topic identified by the School’s lecturers.

More info: TUTOREM Training School

On 18 October, Go6 Institute, ARNES, and LTFE are hosting the 7th Slovenian IPv6 Summit, the main Slovenian and regional event intended to provide updates on the progress, achievements and best practices in the transition to IPv6, and the adoption of the protocol in business environments and organisations.

Attendees are invited to attend both the Slovenian IPv6 Summit on Thursday and the ION Conference on Friday, 19 October.

V petek, 23. septembra 2011 je v Parajumpers Kodiak Jackor Ljubljani in Novem mestu potekal dogodek Noč raziskovalcev 2011. V Ljubljani se je dogajalo na Institutu »Jožef Stefan«, v Hiši eksperimentov, na Prešernovem trgu, Krajinskem parku Ljubljansko barje in Akademiji za vizualne umetnosti, v Novem mestu pa v Kulturnem centru Janeza Trdine.

Noč raziskovalcev (http://ec.europa.eu/research/researchersnight) je vseevropski dogodek, ki se odvija na pobudo Evropske unije zadnji petek v septembru v številnih evropskih mestih istočasno. Kot smo že omenili, se je letošnja Noč raziskovalcev odvijala 23. septembra v 320 evropskih mestih in 32 državah, obiskovalci pa so si lahko ogledali več kot 800 dogodkov. Že od samega 642-374 certification začetka Noč raziskovalcev nosi sporočilo »Raziskovalci so med nami«. Obiskovalci so namreč lahko ob prijetnem druženju spoznali poklicne možnosti raziskovalca in se za trenutek v tej vlogi preizkusili tudi sami. Parajumpers Light Long Bear Evropska komisija želi s to pobudo razširiti pozitivno sliko o raziskovalcih v splošni javnosti, odgnati negativne stereotipe in pokazati kaj vse je omogočeno mladini, ki se za odloči za tak poklic. Slovenska javnost je lahko na dan dogodka spoznala raziskovalce na vseh mogočih področji, se z njimi družila, jih spraševala in se zabavala. Predstavljena so bila številna znanstvena področja bodisi s pomočjo predavanj, bodisi z zanimivimi predstavitvami. Naj omenimo le šolo nore kemije – atraktivne kemijsko-fizikalne 640-864 poskuse, razstavo nano svetov, predstavitev dveh humanoidnih robotov ter številna zanimiva predavanja.

Na dogodku se je zbralo okoli 5.000 obiskovalcev različnih starostnih skupin in področij delovanja. Dogodek na Prešernovem trgu so otvorili župan Mestne občine Ljubljane, gospod Zoran Janković, direktor Instituta »Jožef Stefan«, dr. Jadran Lenarčič, profesor na Fakulteti za strojništvo, UL, prof. dr. Janez Tušek in vodja projekta INSARTY, prof. dr. Borka Jerman Blažič. Program je povezoval Sašo Hribar.

V sklopu dogodka Noč raziskovalcev smo obeležili tudi 20-letnico prve internetne povezave v Sloveniji s programom, ki je imel naslov Od znanstvenega projekta do svetovno nepogrešljivega omrežja za ljudi, naprave in informacije (http://www.isoc-drustvo.si/). Dogodek so popestrili udeleženci in raziskovalci, ki so sodelovali pri vzpostavitvi prve internetne povezave v Sloveniji. Pokazali so, kako je internet prišel v Slovenijo in kaj je za Slovenijo v času osamosvajanja pomenilo imeti dostop do najbolj pomembne svetovne informacijske mreže. Program je bil usmerjen tudi v prihodnost. Kaj nam prinaša novi internet? Kakšen je prispevek interneta pri premagovanju gospodarske krize? Nove raziskave so predvsem usmerjene v razvoj storitev in tehnologij za okrevanje gospodarstva in s tem še naprej potrjujejo dejstvo, da je internet največja in najbolj pomembna inovacija 20. stoletja.

Program 20-letnice prve internetne povezave v Sloveniji.

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