We cordially invite you to participate in the  Young Women in Energy workshop , organized as a part of the  Connected Stationary Battery Energy Storage - USBSE project , scheduled to take place on Monday,  February 6, 2023.  This event aims to promote EU principles with a specific focus on gender equality and non-discrimination in the field of energetics. The workshop will feature five accomplished young energy experts, Petra Sagrestano Štambuk, Martina Vajdić, Andreja Lončarek Rajšl, Petra Mesarić, and Sonja Ravlić, who will engage in a panel discussion about empowering young women in energy careers. The workshop will take place at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Gray Hall (Siva vijećnica), from 11:00 to 13:00 and everyone is welcome.

At the session of the General Assembly (GA) of the European regional metrology organization EURAMET , held on January 17, 2023, prof. Damir Ilić, PhD , was elected as a Head of the Technical Committee for Electricity and Magnetism – TC EM . Professor Ilić will hold the position from June 2023 to May 2025 and will be the first person from the Republic of Croatia appointed to the position of Head of the Technical Committee in the full technical sense (so far only the head of the TC Quality was elected from Croatia). From 2017 to 2021, professor Ilić held the position of Head of the Low-Frequency Subcommittee at EURAMET, one of the four TC-EM subcommittees. Professor Damir Ilić has been the head of FER's Primary Electromagnetic Laboratory ( FER-PEL ) since 2009, and since 2007 he has been the representative of the Republic of Croatia in EURAMET's TC-EM Committee. More information is available below.

Microwave Theory and Technology Chapter (MTT), Antennas and Propagation Chapter (AP) and Aerospace and Electronic Systems/ Geoscience and Remote Sensing Joint Chapter (AES/GRS) of the IEEE Croatian Section and the Department of Communication and Space Technologies of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing invite you to the lecture: "Development of efficient antenna systems for future communications networks" which will be presented by José-Manuel Poyanco Acevedo , University Carlos III , Madrid, Spain. The lecture will take place on Friday, January 20 , 2023 at 12:00 in room C12-02 of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Unska 3, Zagreb, Croatia. The abstract of the lecture and the lecturer's biography can be found below.

The Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems - LARICS and the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies - LABUST were selected as finalists of the prestigious MBZIRC robotics competition. The laboratories perform together as the UNIZG-FER team, and so far they have passed three stages of the competition. In the first phase, they submitted a project proposal (whitepaper phase) and were selected among the 50 best teams. After that, there was a simulation phase where they had to implement the proposed solutions in a simulation environment and were selected for additional evaluation among the best 9 teams. After the visit of the team of judges and the presentation of our laboratories and equipment, as well as discussions with the team members, they were finally selected as finalists ( top 5 teams ). Our labs' solution will involve cooperation between unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned surface vehicles to perform complex navigation and manipulation tasks in a marine environment without a Global Positioning System (no GPS). The grand prize is $2 million and the competition will be held in Abu Dhabi in February 2024.

The University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG FER) and Centro Astronómico Hispano en Andalucía ( CAHA ) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU was signed with the objective of promoting academic cooperation in education and research and it was signed by the UNIZG FER Dean Prof. Vedran Bilas., PhD, and the CAHA Director Jesús Aceituno Castro, PhD. FER and CAHA have agreed to foster collaboration between their institutions. The parties wish to develop scientific and technical collaborations in astronomy, astrophysics, and computing in a wide range of areas of common interest. These may include, between and among the institutions, the development of technologies, instruments, and software, promoting the advancement of education, research, and services, and strengthening friendly cooperation. Interested parties in cooperation are invited to contact us for any questions or the purpose of designing and implementing joint activities. The personnel responsible for executing the signed MoU from the FER side is Prof. Ana Babić , PhD, and from the CAHA side is Stefan Cikota , PhD. More information is available below.

With the new academic year also began the mandate of the new management of FER. Since 1 October, Professor Vedran Bilas, PhD , has taken over as Dean of the Faculty for the term of the academic years 2022/2023 and 2023/2024. He is assisted in the management by his closest colleagues: the Vice Dean for Research and Innovation, Professor Stjepan Bogdan, PhD , the Vice Dean for Management and Digitalization, Professor Jadranko Matuško, PhD , the Vice Dean for Students, Associate Professor Ana Sušac, PhD , and the Vice Dean for Education, Professor Bojan Trkulja, PhD . The premises that will guide the new FER administration in the coming term are openness, responsibility, organisation, and optimism. More information can be found below.

Professors of our Department of Energy and Power Systems (ZVNE), Prof. Željko Tomšić, PhD , and  Prof. Davor Grgić, PhD , were appointed as Croatian representatives to the Program Committee for the Framework Program for Research and Innovation - Horizon Europe and the Research and Training Program of the European Atomic Energy Community for the period 2021 - 2025. They were appointed on July 28, 2022, by the Minister of Science and Education, Prof. Radovan Fuchs, PhD. The members of the Program Committee are officially appointed by the Ministry of Science and Education, who are responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Horizon Europe Program and are intermediaries between the European Commission and the stakeholders of the national funding system. The members of the Program Committee are experts and representatives with many years of experience in the respective field. For the area of Climate, Energy and Mobility (including related missions and partnerships) was appointed: Prof. Željko Tomšić, PhD, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Expert. Among the representatives of the Republic of Croatia in the compositions of the Program Committees of the Research and Training Program of the European Atomic Energy Community for the period 2021-2025, complementing Horizon Europe, the following was appointed for the field of nuclear fission: Prof. Davor Grgić, Ph.D., University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Expert.