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Last week, the new European COST Action “Women Writers in History” was launched in Brussels. The first meeting of the Management Committee, with members representing the fifteen European countries involved as yet in this collaborative network, was held at the COST office in Brussels.

On Saturday, 10 October 2009, the granting of the "Awards for the contribution to sustainable development of society for the year 2008" took place at Ljubljana Castle.

There are a number of places still available at Master's and Doctoral Study Programmes at the University of Nova Gorica. Deadline for applications: 10 October 2009

On Tuesday, September 15 2009, the "International University Wine Competition" took place in Meranovo (Maribor, Slovenia).

The Wine Queen of Vipava 2009 contest took place in Vipava on Sunday, September 13 2009.

The " Vino Slovenija 2009" took place in Gornja Radgona, from 20th to 22nd July 2009.

The Queen of Teran 2009 contest took place in Pliskovica on Sunday, August 9 2009.

Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Nova Gorica Dr. Christer Fuglesang, an astronaut of the European Space Agency ESA, will again fly into the space in late August. Dr. Fuglesang is a crew member of the space shuttle Discovery on the STS-128 mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

The "15th Young Investigators' Seminar on Analytical Chemistry - YISAC 2009" took place in Graz (Karl-Franzens Universitaet), Austria from 29th June to 2nd July 2009.

The " International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies CompSysTech' 09" took place in Ruse, Bulgaria from 17th to 18th June 2009. A member of the School of Engineering and Management and of the Centre for systems and information technologies at the University of Nova Gorica Doc. Dr. Maja Bračič Lotrič received "Best paper award".

With a donation of 4.600 EUR given to the University of Nova Gorica by Business Solutions, one of the lecture rooms at our premises at Vipavska 13 in Rožna Dolina was equiped with new personal computers.

On Thursday, May 14 2009, the awarding of the "8. Trimo Research Awards 2009" took place at the Stara mestna elektrarna in Ljubljana.

In April 2009, the Erasmus Intensive Language Courses (EILC) Grant was approved to the University of Nova Gorica, which will enable the University to organise an intensive course of basic Slovene for incoming Erasmus students and Comenius assistants involved in the mobility programmes at all eligible Slovene educational institutions.

At the recently organised international poetry competition "Premio internazionale di Poesia Castello di Duino, Ana Toroš, MPhil, a member of the School of Humanities of the University of Nova Gorica, was awarded for one of the best poems in competition.

On Tuesday, March 24 2009, the awarding of the "Jožef Stefan Golden Emblem Prize" took place at the Institute Jožef Stefan. The prizes are awarded to the Slovene and foreign authors of outstanding doctoral thesis in the fields of natural-mathematical, technical, medical, as well as biotechnical sciences.

On Wednesday, March 11 2009, the final ceremony of the "Gospodarstvenik Primorske za leto 2008" took place in Nova Gorica.

Emerald , the world's leading publisher in the fields of management and technology, publishing over 200 professional journals, presents 11 different types of awards yearly. This year, the prestigeous Emerald Literati Network Award of Excellence 2009 was awarded to Gregor Kosec, young researcher, and his mentor, Prof. Dr. Božidar Šarler from the Laboratory for Multiphase Processes of the University of Nova Gorica.

Since January 2009, the research activities of the University of Nova Gorica, so far performed by four laboratories, three centres and the institute, have also been conducted by the newly opened Materials Research Laboratory.

In January 2009, the physicists of the University of Nova Gorica officially joined the international group of scientists VERSIM (VLF/ELF Remote Sensing of Ionospheres and Magnetospheres), devoted to studying the processes in the upper, charged layers of the Earth atmosphere – the ionosphere and the magnetosphere, by means of radio waves.

In November 2008, the Wine Research Centre at the University of Nova Gorica has been established and situated in Ajdovščina next to the School for Viticulture and Enology.