FER and the IEEE Croatia Section co-organize another FER Business Skills Workshop "Environmental economics: the case of Lake Cuitzeo" . This Friday, on the 7 th of May 2021, at 4PM, our guest is Dr. Rafael Trueba Regalado, professor of economics at the leading Mexican university, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Morelia. The Workshop's objective is to present and discuss the socioeconomic value of the negative health externalities suffered by the West Region of Lake Cuitzeo (the second largest lake in Mexico) due to the environmental deterioration of the lake caused by the upper part of the basin. The methodological vision of the research focuses on the quantification of defensive costs and the application of the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM). A hypothetical market was generated to identify the Willingness to Accept Compensation (WTAC) by the interviewees through a medical expense voucher to recover from the adverse effects of the dust storms. The Workshop will be in the English language. You are all welcome with your ideas and discussions! Access link to the MS Teams .

Technical Culture's new textbooks for upper primary school students feature comics with stories about young scientists, innovators and entrepreneurs, including Assis. Prof. Ana Sović Kržić. PhD , and a student of FER, Ivan Kožar . In addition to her teaching at FER, Assist. Prof. Sović Kržić is extremely active in FER's program to popularize science among children and young people called ŠUZA , and for the past five years she has also been the president of The Croatian Robotics Association. Modern comic heroes include Ivan Kožar, a fourth-year student who began experimenting with Tesla coils in sixth grade in order to construct a large musical Tesla coil later in high school. Experimentation led him to his next invention, a universal wireless charger for small battery devices, which won him a variety of medals and awards. The comic story about Ana Sović Kržić will be included in the eighth grade textbook, which will be part of the teaching material starting next school year, while the comic about Ivan Kožar is in the sixth grade textbook and has already been used by students since this year. The editor of these editions, but also the initiator of this commendable idea, is the teacher of Technical Culture from Zagreb Elementary School Ivan Cankar, Maja Mačinko. Some of the well-known names presented in the textbooks are for example Mate Rimac, Albert Gajšak, Ivan Mrvoš, Kata Marunica and a dozen other Croatian contemporary innovators and scientists.

The Ambassador of the Republic of Portugal to the Republic of Croatia, H. E. Paula Leal da Silva , visited the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Zagreb on Tuesday, 16 March 2021, where she was received by the Dean of FER, Prof. Gordan Gledec, PhD , and Vice Dean for Science, Prof. Nikola Mišković, PhD. The Ambassador of Portugal was accompanied by the First Secretary Rodrigo Lobo d'Ávila and Ataché for Culture Tiago Gil. During the meeting, the two delegations discussed the position and importance of FER in the academic and scientific research community and its positioning at the international level. Particular emphasis was given to the significant collaboration that FER has established for many years with partner institutions from Portugal, reflected in some 30 scientific research projects carried out with almost 20 Portuguese institutions. After the meeting with the faculty leadership, the Portuguese delegation, accompanied by FER's researcher Faust Ferreire, PhD , (originally from Portugal) visited four FER laboratories. At the beginning, at Smart Grid Laboratory ( SGLab ), an experienced researcher, Mateo Beus, mag. ing. , demonstrated to the guests the remote control of the hydroelectric power plant, followed by a visit to the Laboratory of Underwater Systems and Technologies ( LABUST ) in the newly renovated premises in Martinovka Hall, headed by Vice Dean Mišković . After returning to FER, the delegation visited the Laboratory for Renewable Energy Systems ( LARES ), where Prof. Mario Vašak, PhD , described the application of advanced methods of intelligent energy management on the surface of the skyscraper of FER, after which the guests had the opportunity to experience a beautiful view of the panorama of Zagreb. The visit ended with the presentation of FER's Laboratory for Autonomous Systems and Mobile Robotics ( LAMOR ) and the presentation of Prof. Ivan Petrović, PhD , who provided some examples from the industry with which LAMOR cooperates thanks to its very competitive research activities. Selected photos of the meeting can be found below in the gallery , more photos can be found in the detailed news content.

The 44 th International ICT Convention MIPRO 2021 will be held from 24 to 28 May 2021 in Opatija , with the technical co-sponsorship of the IEEE. This year's slogan of the conference is "ICT in Renewable Energy Technologies" , and it will cover various areas of ICT application, from microelectronics, electronics, data science, biomedicine, telecommunications, through computers in education, engineering education to intelligent and business intelligent systems, robotics, digital economics, law and many other areas. This year, MIPRO gives special importance to hydrogen energy and a new conference called "Regional Hydrogen Energy Conference - RHEC" has been established and will take place for the first time. Although the convention consists of conferences, special session, various interesting workshops, round tables, invited presentations and lectures and other program segments, this announcement is primarily intended for authors of scientific and professional papers. The deadline for abstract submission is Monday, 18 January 2021. Papers can be submitted to 15 different conferences and/or 1 special session. All papers will undergo two double blind peer review, and the same author can submit multiple papers. Presented papers in English will be sent for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Database. Paper instructions for authors, deadlines, registration fees and other important details are available at www.mipro.hr   or via contact e-mail mipro@mipro.hr .

Hrvatski Telekom and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing of the University of Zagreb today launched the first 5G Campus Network in Croatia, which allows the scientific and business community, students, and start-ups to work on development projects based on 5G technology in the field of Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0, automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence applications. In cooperation with Hrvatski Telekom, FER will promote automation and computing projects, telecommunications and radio communications, medicine, energy, and agriculture, which rely on mobile networks. It will directly encourage further development of robotics, edge and fog computing, and distributed learning. Hrvatski Telekom has developed this project on the model of the campus networks launched by Deutsche Telekom in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Hungary, aiming at developing and testing new communication technologies.