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Team UNIZG-FER won first place in the...

Team UNIZG-FER won first place in the MBZIRC 2023 competition

Petra Škaberna

The UNIZG-FER team, consisting of researchers from LABUST (Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies) and LARICS (Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems), won first place in the recent MBZIRC (Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge) 2023 competition! The challenge was to search for the target ship in a large sea area and recover objects of interest using a system consisting of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) and several unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in GNSS-denied operation . The competition took place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in January 2024. Despite considerable difficulties and an extremely challenging task, the team emerged victorious, performing impressively in all three rounds of the competition . This is a significant recognition for our laboratory and the culmination of all our work over the last years. We look forward to all future projects and opportunities arising from this recognition.

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Revealing the date and location of...

Revealing the date and location of the 17th Job Fair!

Marin Capan

Discover everything related to the 17th Job Fair that you won't want to miss! Earlier than usual, the 17th Job Fair arrives on  May 8th and 9th ! Join one of the the largest meetups with over two thousand visitors and over a hundred technology companies. Get to know more than  100 domestic, regional and foreign companies  and their specific industries.

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FER Alumni Foundation - We create...

FER Alumni Foundation - We create equal opportunities for excellence together!

Petra Škaberna

The FER Alumni Foundation invites members of the Alumni community and everyone else to get involved and help FER students on their way to excellence . More than 25,000 FER students walked the halls of the faculty, sat at the same desks, learned from the same professors, but each student, today's FER alumni, had his own path and his own story. Only the roof was always shared by everyone. Our students come from all over Croatia, from different families, different financial opportunities and social circumstances. All of them come to FER full of enthusiasm, desire and ability to achieve - excellence!

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A team of scientists at FER has...

A team of scientists at FER has developed a technology for monitoring light pollution from low Earth orbit

Petra Škaberna

The first phase of the "Light-Pollution Characterization Module" project was successfully completed in December 2023. The FER-ZKIST team handed over the module to the European Space Agency, which commended the project and recommended its continuation. Do you know how night-time light alters life on Earth? To what extent is the increasing light pollution harming insects, animals, humans, and plants? Night-time light obscures the night sky, disrupts natural biological rhythms, affects health, leads to energy waste, hinders enjoyment of the night sky, and complicates astronomical observations. Studies indicate that artificial light illuminating the Earth has been increasing at an annual rate of 10% over the past 12 years.

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FER professors in the Scientific...

FER professors in the Scientific Council for Medicine and Technology of HAZU

Sven Lončarić

On Tuesday, March 19, 2024, the founding assembly of the Scientific Council for Medicine and Technology of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) was held in the hall of the HAZU Library. This, 19th scientific council of the Academy, was established in April 2023 by the decision of the HAZU Assembly, and will primarily deal with key scientific, developmental and educational topics of medicine and technology . It is the first scientific council of HAZU, whose work is jointly coordinated by two Academy classes - the Class for Medical Sciences and the Class for Technical Sciences. The Scientific Council has 60 members, among whom are ten professors and assistant professors of FER: prof. Vedran Bilas , PhD, assistant professor Jelena Božek , PhD, prof. Mario Cifrek , PhD, associate professor Alan Jović , PhD, prof. Igor Lacković , PhD, academician prof. Sven Lončarić , PhD, associate professor Željka Lučev Vasić , PhD, prof. Ratko Magjarević , PhD, associate professor Tomislav Petković , PhD, and prof. Marko Subašić , PhD. Members of the Executive Board of the Scientific Council for Medicine and Technology are academician prof. Sven Lončarić , PhD, and prof. Ratko Magjarević , PhD.

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The centenary of the Department of...

The centenary of the Department of Electrical Engineering Fundamentals and Measurements

Petra Škaberna

The Department of Electrical Engineering Fundamentals and Measurements ( ZOEM ) was founded on April 4, 1924 as the Laboratory for Electrical Measurements at the Royal Technical College in Zagreb . It was founded by prof. Josip Lončar , who according to some sources is the first Croatian academician in the technical field . The laboratory later changed its name to the Laboratory for Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, and in 1949, by aligning with the organizational units of the University of Zagreb's Technical Faculty at the time, the Laboratory became the Department for Electrical Engineering Fundamentals and Measurements, which is the name it has retained to this day. Therefore, on April 4, 2024, we rightly celebrate our 100th anniversary, and despite the various changes that occurred as a result of the reorganization of the umbrella institutions, all members of today's Department can proudly boast of their scientific and institutional connection with the members of the original laboratory of Professor Lončar.

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