Prof. Mario Kovač, PhD , Director of FER's HPC Architecture and Application Research Centre and Chief Communications Officer of the European Processor Initiative , will deliver a course as part of HPC, Data & Architecture Week . The summer school will take place from 13 to 17 March 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The title of the course is "Architectures for image and video compression acceleration." More information about the course can be found here and information about the summer school is listed here .

AIoTwin is a twinning coordination action for spreading excellence in Artificial Intelligence of Things , bringing together researchers from three European universities, University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering ( UNIZG-FER ), Technische Universität Wien ( TUW ) and Technische Universität Berlin ( TUB ) and one research institute, Research Institutes of Sweden AB ( RISE ). The goal is to significantly strengthen the scientific excellence and innovation capacity of FER in the area of the Internet of Things through knowledge transfer and strategic networking activities between FER researchers and world-class scientists from leading EU institutions. This will be achieved through an elaborate work plan and a comprehensive set of activities that will increase the mobility of researchers and improve the scientific and innovative capacities as well as the attractiveness and visibility of FER in the European Research Area. The AIoTwin project started on January 1, 2023, and is financed by the Horizon Europe program. FER is the coordinator of the project, and it is led by prof. Ivana Podnar Žarko , PhD. More information about the project can be found 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.

In FER's Laboratory for Renewable Energy Systems - LARES , by using mathematical algorithms, it is resolved how to optimally consume energy in a building, while preserving the comfort of the building's users. Head of LARES, professor Mario Vašak, PhD , reveals in an interview for the news portal egradnja.hr what kind of measurements and calculations the Laboratory carries out, how to implement them in buildings and at the same time make even smarter use of energy produced from volatile renewable sources. A full translation of the article is available 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.