Dr. Živa Stepančič from the Laboratory of Open Systems and Networks had a department seminar titled: “Presentation seminar: Modelling of flexibility potential in smart grids and statistical support in projects” on Thursday,  7th October 2021. Presentation of her work included the presentation of the research results as well as the description of  her currents tasks on various european and industrial projects under way at the Laboratory of Open Systems and Networks. The seminar was  carried out virtually. 

The infrastructure centre of Laboratory of open systems and networks has been supporting the implementation of the event of 27. Slovenian festival of science, organized by Slovenian science foundation. We have sucessfully provided their home in physically and vuirtual form. We are looking forward for our next cooperation for upcoming European festival of science in November 2021!

At the INTERNET 2021 conference, that was held from July 18, 2021 to July 22, 2021 – Nice, France, the authors, Borka Jerman Blažič and Primož Cigoj were awarded with »Best paper award« for their contribution ”Web Vulnerability in 2021: Large Scale Inspection, Findings, Analysis and Remedies«. The paper reported about the findings of the research carried out between 2019 and 2021 within the work on PhD thesis, oriented to develop a tool for web vulnerability discovering at large and the service and for announcing the web users and owners about the present vulnerabilities. The research results pointed out that the percentage of vulnerable web sites is lower in regions where population has a high level of digital skills.

On November 10–11,  26. Slovenian Science Festival was in session with international participation. With the help of the infrastructure group for e-Research environments, our Laboratory for Open Systems and Networks enabled the Slovenian Science Foundation to implement a virtual event Science Festival 2020.

This year’s 26. Slovenian Science Festival was held in a hybrid form, remotely, due to the measures taken against the spread of coronavirus.

The patron of the festival was Mag. Violeta Bulc, former European Commissioner.

Organizers:

Univerza v Ljubljani, donator
Institut »Jožef Stefan«, Ljubljana, donator
Inotherm, d.o.o., Prigorica, donator
Loterija Slovenija, d.o.o., Ljubljana, donator
SIQ Ljubljana, donator[ZS1] 
Lotrič, d.o.o., Selca, donator
Energotech, d.o.o., Ljubljana, donator
Omega, d.o.o., Ljubljana, donator
Kemijski inštitut, Ljubljana, sponsor

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Our co-worker, Dr. Tanja Pavleska has recently published an article titled “The good, the bad and the urgent – tacking information disorder” Information disorder is an umbrella term for three distinct, but related phenomena: disinformation, misinformation and malinformation. These are commonly known under the names of fake news, rumours, doxing, harmful content, and so on. Many efforts to combat information disorder have been taken, as it is directly related to some of the most important aspects of our daily lives: guarding democratic and societal values, nurturing trust in the actors involved in establishing those values, exercising fundamental rights and freedoms, and similar.

You can read the whole article following the link:
https://www.betterinternetforkids.eu/web/portal/practice/awareness/detail?articleId=6206859