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On 16 September, two faculty members of the UNG’s School of Arts were once again awarded at the 20th Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož.

On Friday, 15 September, the University of Nova Gorica and the Azerbaijan State Agricultural University signed a cooperation agreement that concerns joint mentorship for doctoral students and double doctoral degrees.

The Scientific Council for Medicine at the Slovene Research Agency (ARRS) included an achievement of the UNG faculty members, explained in the article “Bilirubin is an Endogenous Antioxidant in Human Vascular Endothelial Cells”, in the Excellent in Science 2017 event.

On Sunday, 17 September, 2017, the Women’s U23 World Championship in volleyball took place in the Stožice hall in Ljubljana. The Slovene team, led by a student at the University of Nova Gorica’s School of Humanities, Eva Mori, achieved an immense success – U23 World Championship silver medal.

The University of Nova Gorica and the University Iuav of Venice have established the double doctoral degree in the postgraduate study program Economics and Techniques for the Conservation of the Architectural and Environmental Heritage , third level.

The letter “Optimized frequency dependent photothermal beam deflection spectroscopy”, published by the co-workers of Laboratory for Environmental and Life Sciences Prof. Dr. Dorota Korte and Prof. Dr. Mladen Franko with co-authors in Laser Physics Letters, was chosen by the publisher in his Editorial "Highlights of 2016", as one of the three contributions with most impact in the field of Laser spectroscopy.

The project proposal was granted co-financing in the framework of the call for proposals of INTERREG V-A Slovenija-Avstrija programme. The lead partner is University of Nova Gorica. Partners of the project are also Primorski tehnološki park, d. o. o., Kemijski inštitut, Technische Universtät Graz, Polymer Competence Center Leoben GmbH, Montanuniversität Leoben in CTR Carinthian Tech Research AG.

On Tuesday, 13 June, 2017 the Pregl Ward for outstanding achievements in the field of basic and applicative research in the field of chemistry and related fields was given at the National Institute of Chemistry.

On today’s national holiday, namely the Primož Trubar Day, the President of the Republic of Slovenia Borut Pahor gave the “Apple of Inspiration” award to Prof. Dr. Kozma Ahačič in the presidential palace. Prof. Dr. Ahačič was awarded for his creative work and introduction of new methods in Slovene grammar and literature.

On Thursday, 1 June, 2017, 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.

Following the invitation of the Rector of the University of Nova Gorica, Prof. Dr. Danilo Zavrtanik, His Excellency Mr Mykhailo F. Brodovych, the Ambassador of the Ukraine in Slovenia visited the University of Nova Gorica today.

On 31 May, the Head of the National Institute of Chemistry, Prof. Dr. Gregor Anderluh, together with his two colleagues, Prof. Dr. Nataša Zabukovec Logar and Prof. Dr. Robert Dominko, visited the University of Nova Gorica.

Today, Her Excellency, Ms Věra Zemanová, the Ambassador of the Czech Republic in Slovenia, paid a visit to the University of Nova Gorica. She was accompanied by her advisor, Mr Lubomír Bažant.

On Friday, 19 May, 2017, the Vice-rectors of the University of Nova Gorica, Prof. Dr. Gvido Bratina in Prof. Dr. Mladen Franko welcomed the representatives of the Shanghai Women's Federation at the Lanthieri Mansion.

Today, her Excellency Ms Sophie Honey, the Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Slovenia paid the University of Nova Gorica a courtesy visit.

Recently, two students of the School of Humanities at the University of Nova Gorica, Eva Mori and Zala Zbičajnik, achieved a remarkable success.

The latest international Round University Ranking system (RUR) considers the University of Nova Gorica best university in Slovenia and ranks it among the leading world universities.

At yesterday’s award ceremony titled Generations the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts – ZRC SAZU - gave away awards for scientific achievements in the field social studies and humanities in 2016.

Today, the University of Nova Gorica hosted the Italian Ambassador to Slovenia, His Excellency, Paolo Trichilo. During his courtesy visit, he was accompanied by Iva Palmieri, the Consul General in Koper, as well as Stefano Cerrato, the Cultural Attaché at the Italian Cultural institute in Slovenia.

The University of Nova Gorica (UNG) has been a part of the global university ranking program called »U-Multirank« since the very beginning of this European project. This year’s results of the comparative rankings of different universities from all over the world (»U-Multirank 2017«), published on the website www.umultirank.org, show that UNG’s results are high above average, within the global university chart. (Same exceptional results were obtained by UNG also in the last two years U-Multirank 2015 and U-Multirank 2016 comparisons of universities.)