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In the context of the 27th International Festival of Computer Arts (IFCA), the Maribor Youth Culture Centre, in cooperation with five Slovenian educational institutions (the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana, the School of Arts of the University of Nova Gorica, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Maribor, and the AVA Academy of Visual Arts from Ljubljana), published a call for students to send in their intermedia art projects for the IFCA 2021 student award.

Extreme pilot Matevž Lenarčič and head of the Centre for Atmospheric Research at the University of Nova Gorica, Griša Močnik, successfully completed 11 research flights over Cape Verde during the measurement campaign of the European Space Agency (ESA).

On Friday, 8 October 2021, the Kostanjevica Nova Gorica Franciscan Monastery hosted the Škrabec Days 12 symposium organised by the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), the Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language, the ZRC SAZU Research Station in Nova Gorica, and the School of Humanities of the University of Nova Gorica.

On 1 October, The Slovenian Biochemical Society awarded the Lapanje distinction for young members of the Slovenian Biochemical Society for outstanding achievements in biochemical sciences to Dr. Fabio Lapenta, a post-doctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Environmental and Life Science at the University of Nova Gorica.

On September 28, on the cusp of the new academic year, we awarded the title of Professor Emeritus and the Golden Plate of the University of Nova Gorica at the award ceremony held at the Lanthieri Mansion in Vipava.

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.

According to the results of the international Round University Ranking, which evaluates and ranks the best universities in the world, the University of Nova Gorica once again got placed very high (it took the 169th spot) in 2021.

During today’s visit of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia to the Gorizia region, the Minister of Defence, Mag. Tonin, and his colleagues visited the University of Nova Gorica.

On Thursday, September 2, 2021, a University of Nova Gorica Foundation (FUNG) ceremony took place in the atrium of the Lanthieri Mansion in Vipava

Dear students!

In September 2021, researchers from the University of Nova Gorica, the Haze Instruments d.o.o. company, and Slovenian extreme pilot, Matevž Lenarčič, will participate in the JATAC (Joint Aeolus Tropical Atlantic Campaign) project in Cape Verde, organised by the European Space Agency (ESA).

The academic publishing house Springer has issued the monograph Representation Learning: Propositionalization and Embeddings, written by Prof. Dr. Nada Lavrač from the Jozef Stefan Institute and the University of Nova Gorica; Dr. Vid Podpečan from the Jozef Stefan Institute; and Prof. Dr. Marko Robnik-Šikonja, from the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana.

University of Nova Gorica and Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany) - Universities of the Capitals of Culture 2025 - want to cooperate closely in the future.

Today, we hosted Prof. Dr. Boštjan Zalar, Director of the "Jožef Stefan" Institute, on a visit to the University of Nova Gorica.

Following the selection of the expert committee and the approval of the Škrabec Institution Board, this year's Škrabec Institution scholarship recipients include Vesna Plesničar, a student at the Graduate School.

On Tuesday, 15 June and Wednesday, 16 June 2021, the ceremonies for the awarding of diplomas, master's diplomas, and the conferment of PhDs of the University of Nova Gorica, took place in the atrium of the Lanthieri Mansion in Vipava.

Today we hosted the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain in the Republic of Slovenia, His Excellency Mr Juan Aristegui Laborde, on a courtesy visit to the University of Nova Gorica.

Among this year’s 13 winners of the European Union Prize for Literature is Anja Mugerli, a graduate of the School of Humanities.

Today at the University of Nova Gorica, in the Lanthieri Mansion, the Vice-rector for Research and Arts, Prof. Dr. Gvido Bratina, received the visit of the Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Her Excellency Ms Tiffany Sadler.

The University of Nova Gorica has obtained funding for two projects under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) tender, which is part of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program.