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The signature of the agreement between the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on December 19, 2018, in Santiago de Chile, eliminated the last formal obstacle to the construction of the South CTA observatory in the Chilean Atacama desert.

Today, the Rector of the University of Nova Gorica (UNG), Prof. Dr. Danilo Zavrtanik and the President of the Primorje football club (ND Primorje), Bojan Adžić, signed an agreement on a long-term business collaboration.

Today, the University of Nova Gorica got a visit from Japanese Ambassador to Slovenia, his Excellency, Masaharu Yoshida. Apart from the Ambassador, Yoshiaki Makino, the Head of the Department of the Economic and Political matters accompanied the Ambassador during this visit.

On Wednesday, 5 December and on Thursday, 6 December, 2018, 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.

Tarik Žigon, who successfully completed his studies at the School of Engineering and Management (at the University of Nova Gorica) is a newly elected mayor of the Renče-Vogrsko municipality.

In a research, performed by the Fermi LAT collaboration, with participation from Dr. Gabrijela Zaharijas, from the Centre for Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Nova Gorica, scientists used gamma rays to measure the total amount of starlight produced over the last 90% of the Universes history (last 12 billion years).

In the Linhart Hall of the Cankar Cogress Center in Ljubljana, these awards were given out on November 27, 2018: the Zois award for life achievements, the Puh award for life achievements, the Zois award for outstanding achievements, the Puh award for outstanding achievements, the Zois award for important achievements, the Puh award for introducing new scientific results into the economic and social practice, and the Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia Certificate.

A student at the School of Arts Irena Gatej received an award for the best students film for her film “Driving. Poem for my father” at the "Cinedays Festival of European Film " in Skopje, Macedonia.

Today, the University of Nova Gorica received a visit by the Minister for Economic Development of the Guernsey island, Deputy Charles Parkinson.

Recently, Prof. Dr. Petra Svoljšak, the Head of the Cultural History study program at the School of Humanities (University of Nova Gorica) and the Head of the Milko Kos Historical Institute at ZRC SAZU received the Grand Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit.

On Sunday, the Slovenian Animated Film Association joined in the celebration of the international animated film day by giving out awards for animated films.

The main event at the opening of the 24th academic year took place on Thursday, 18 October at the Lanthieri Mansion in Vipava.

A Caltech-led team of researchers that included a researcher from the Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology of the University of Nova Gorica Dr. Tanja Petrushevska, has observed the peculiar death of a massive star that exploded in a surprisingly faint and rapidly fading supernova.

A faculty member of the University of Nova Gorica and a golden donor to the University of Nova Gorica’s Foundation Professor Oskar Kogoj became an honorary citizen of the Miren-Kostanjevica municipality.

The University of Nova Gorica’s Publishing House published a new book by Austrian physicist and Nobel Prize winner Erwin Schrödinger titled “War Diary: Šempeter pri Gorici, 1915; Kriegstagebuch: St. Peter bei Görz, 1915«

A Master’s program student at the School of Arts Sandra Jovanovska received an award for the best experimental film for her film “Animals are special effects” at the "Progeny Film Festival"in Virginia, USA.

Among the awardees at the 21st Slovene Film Festival was also a faculty member of the UNG’s School of Arts.

In the past days, the Rector of the University of Nova Gorica, Prof. Dr. Danilo Zavrtanik and the Vice-Rector for Education, Prof. Dr. Mladen Franko paid a formal visit to the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University in the Ukraine.

About 4 billion years ago, a super-massive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy erupted a stream of extremely energetic particles in the direction of Earth. Now, an international team of researchers, including also a researcher from University of Nova Gorica, has revealed how one of these particles, elusive neutrinos, was detected and, with the help of NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, linked back to its likely source.

Today, a five-day course on open learning started at the University of Nova Gorica’s premises at the Lanthieri Mansion. It will take place until Friday, July 6th.