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Yesterday, at Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana, the Mira award was given as part of the event dedicated to the writer Luiza Pesjak (the event also featured Slovene and Austrian compositions for piano and solo voice).

On Wednesday, September 25, 2019, Professor Emeritus of the University of Nova Gorica prof. Antonino Abrami, with the support of the representatives of the present Italian Governing Parties, presented at the European Parliament the ambitious project of the establishment of the European Health and Environment Criminal Court.

On Thursday, October 3, 2019, the French Ambassador to Slovenia Florence Ferrari awarded the Head of the Jožef Stefan Institute Prof. Dr. Jadran Lenarčič with the French national order of merit.

On September 20th, the Association for Culture, Sports and Tourism Žalec (ZKŠT) announced the winner of the Fanny Haussmann poetry award at the Novo Celje Mansion.

The 22nd Slovene Film Festival took place in Portorož between September 17th and 22nd. The students and school members of the UNG’s School of Arts also presented their work there and they were, once again, successful.

In the 2019/2020 academic year, the School of Humanities of the University of Nova Gorica will organise courses of English, German and Slovene.

Ten years after the first edition, the world-renowned Oxford University Press published the second edition of the scientific monograph of the associate of the University of Nova Gorica, and the Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU from Postojna, Prof. Dr. Tanja Pipan, The Biology of Caves and Other Subterranean Habitats (Biologija jam in drugih podzemeljskih habitatov).

The University of Nova Gorica (UNG) and UNESCO’s department of Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning at the Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) co-created and now for the second year in a row also coordinate an international mentor program, called Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW).

Exceptional Results of the University of Nova Gorica at the Global U- Multirank 2019 University Rankings

During the 18th Lirikonfesta Velenje, a faculty member of the School of Humanities at the University of Nova Gorica, Prof. Dr. Barbara Pregelj, received a prestigious literary award called Lirikonov zlát.

On Wednesday, 29 May and on Thursday, 30 May, 2019, the graduation ceremony for Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral students of the University of Nova Gorica was held at the Lanthieri Mansion in Vipava.

Today, the University of Nova Gorica’s Gallery was opened at the Lanthieri Mansion in Vipava.

Urška Djukić, a Master’s program student at the School of Arts of the University of Nova Gorica participated at the Cannes festival this year.

This week, the Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology of the University of Nova Gorica hosted the first meeting of the CEEPUS network Astro.CE: “Multi-messenger Astrophysics in Central Europe”.

A fully coherent source of intense soft x-ray pulses

Today, the Rector of the University of Nova Gorica, Prof. Dr. Danilo Zavrtanik, and the Director of Institute CES, inštitut znanosti in tehnologije, d.o.o., mag. inž. el. Nina Gramc, concluded the Agreement based on which the University of Nova Gorica sold the patent rights for the method for "solid-state grid energy storage" invention to Institute CES, inštitut znanosti in tehnologije, d.o.o..

PROF. DR. STOJAN PLESNIČAR (1925 - 2019)

Prof. Dr. Peter Purg, a faculty member of the University of Nova Gorica’s School of Arts became the new president of the Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (NAKVIS) Council.

According to the results of the international Round University Ranking system, performing evaluations and rankings of leading world universities, the University of Nova Gorica found itself at an exceptionally high place, namely the 140th place, which is the best result so far. It also reached really high rankings in the previous years: in 2018, it was listed as the 353rd, in 2017, it was placed at the 186th spot, and in 2016 at the 203rd place. Among the latter the most highly esteemed U.S. and British universities prevail, such as the California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Harvard University, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge etc.

Today, the University of Nova Gorica hosted the Austrian Ambassador to Slovenia, Her Excellency, Sigrid Berka, who was visiting the Nova Gorica Municipality. Apart from the Ambassador, the Head of the Austrian Cultural Forum, Andreas Pawlitschek, also took part in the courtesy visit.