The YERUN Research Mobility Awards (YRMAs) return with a refreshed approach for the 2024-2025 edition, offering opportunities for impactful research collaborations across the YERUN network. Whether you’re an early-career or mid-career researcher, these awards are designed to support innovative and interdisciplinary partnerships. What’s new in 2024-2025? This year’s edition introduces three major updates that reflect our commitment to fo...

The Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka organized the final meeting of the project "Renewable Energy Harvesting in Croatian Islands (CRECI)" funded by the call "Strengthening bilateral cooperation with Norway in the Green Transition" from the Financial Mechanisms of the Kingdom of Norway (EEA grants). The final meetings were held on May 6, 2024. in the city of Cres in the Moise Palace and on May 7, 2024. in the city of Krk in the city hall. Norwegian partners from the NORCE institute, Ph.D. Rune Schlanbusch...

Continuing its tradition of welcoming new members since 1781, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced its newest members on April 24. The 250 members elected in 2024 are being recognized for their excellence and invited to uphold the Academy’s mission of engaging across disciplines and divides. The list of newly elected members was presented by David W. Oxtoby, President of the Academy, and Chair of the Board Goodwin Liu, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. We are delighted to learn that Professor Nenad Ban...

On 28 March 2024, the Western Balkans Mobility Scheme has officially been launched. Funded under Horizon Europe, the project entitled POLICY ANSWERS – R&I POLICY making, implementation ANd Support in the WEsteRn BalkanS was launched on 1 March 2022. Positioned well in line with the EU Western Balkans Agenda on Innovation, Research, Education, Culture, Youth, and Sport (WB Agenda), POLICY ANSWERS monitors and supports policy coordination within the EU-WB cooperation, but also provides capacity building and pilot actions in the WB to contr...

For the October issue of Vox Academiae, we asked the Rector of the University of Antwerp, Professor Herman Van Goethem, to share his thoughts on the future of the European diploma. His full statement is available below. * * * It is with great pleasure and a sense of immense responsibility that I share my thoughts on the European Diploma scheme, a visionary project that aims to redefine the landscape of education and mobility in Europe. As the rector of a...

Sir John Anthony Hardy, a pioneering geneticist and world-known molecular biologist whose research interests are focused on neurological diseases, officially became the honorary doctor of the University of Rijeka during an award ceremony held at Aula Magna, University of Rijeka Rectorate, on Friday, September 15, 2023. He was promoted to an honorary doctor of the University of Rijeka by the Rector, Prof. Snježana Prijić Samaržija, Ph.D., while Assoc. Prof. Vladimira Vuletić, M.D., Ph.D., from the Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka, assumed the role of the promoter. ...

International Conference on Highly Flexible Slender Structures will be held between 25 and 29 of September 2023 at the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Rijeka, Republic of Croatia. The conference will be organized as an ECCOMAS (European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences) Thematic Conference and an IACM (International Association for Computational Mechanics) Special Interest Conference. The focus of the conference is on structural systems and t...

Dr. Vanja Smokvina, associate professor at the UNIRI Faculty of Law and Head of the Center and Jean Monnet Chair of Sports Law, Politics in Sport and Sports Diplomacy, was once again appointed as an arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), based in Switzerland, by the decision of the International Council of Arbitration in Sport (ICAS). CAS is the world's highest legal instance for the resolution of disputes in sport, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the appointment applies to both...

The UNIRI Faculty of Law, through its Center for Sports Law, Sports Policies and Sports Diplomacy and the Jean Monnet Chair for EU Sports Law, Policy & Diplomacy, in cooperation with the prestigious association of sports experts Sport&EU Association, organized a roundtable discussion and debate on Monday, December 19, 2022, elaborating on the opinions of the Advocate General in the cases European Superleague (C-333/21) and International Skating Union (C-124/21 P), which are pending before the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, and which were published on ...

Professor Maurizio Fermeglia, Ph.D., full professor at the Department of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Trieste and former Rector of the University of Trieste, Italy, held a lecture entitled Hydrogen and global warming: the energy carrier of the future at the University of Rijeka Campus on Wednesday, December 7, 2022. The esteemed lecturer and all participants were warmly welcomed by the University of Rijeka Rector, Prof. Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Ph.D., while Prof. Saša Zelenika, Ph.D., Vice-Rector for Strategic Projec...

The Rule of Law and EU funds: Legal and Political Perspectives In the aftermath of the Next Generation EU 750 billion euro fund, the EU lawmaker adopted a horizontal ‘conditionality mechanism’ that made Member States’ access to funds from the EU budget conditional on respect for the principles of the rule of law. The regulation has gone from being an instrument whose primary objective was the protection of the rule of law to a budgetary conditionality mechanism. In February 2022 the Co...

The Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities (JESH) programme promotes cooperation between outstanding young researchers from abroad and scholars in Austria. JESH offers an incoming programme for researchers from 53 different target countries as well as an outgoing programme for Austrian researchers. Target group: young scholars and scientists with a maximum of 10 years of research experience following completion of their doctorate/PhD

Five members of the EMBO Council, a new chair, and a vice-chair were appointed at the EMBO Council meeting in Heidelberg on 24 and 25 May 2022. EMBO Council is the governing body of EMBO. According to the EMBO Statutes and Rules, it consists of nine members who are elected by the EMBO Members and Associate Members, and six members who are co-opted by Council. The 15 members serve for a period of three years and may be re-elected for one additional term. Each year, five Council members are replaced: three by direct el...

Rector of the University of Rijeka, Prof. Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Ph.D., participated in this year's Global Forum on “Higher Education Leadership for Democracy, Sustainability, and Social Justice”, hosted by Dublin City University on June 16-17, 2022. The Forum brought together higher education leaders and representatives of public authorities and local, regional, national, and international organizations with a common goal: to provide an opportunity to critically explore and actively advance higher education’s role in cons...

The 45th International ICT Convention MIPRO 2022 will be held from 23 to 27 May 2022 in Opatija, with the technical co-sponsorship of the IEEE. This year's slogan of the conference is "ICT in Smart Digital Ecosystems", and it will cover various areas of ICT application, from microelectronics, electronics, data science, biomedicine, telecommunications, through computers in education, engineering education to intelligence and business intelligence systems, robotics, di...

HZI research team develops novel corona and flu vaccination based on cytomegalovirus Viruses are mostly encountered as pathogens. However, virus-based vaccination platforms can also help to provide protection from different diseases. In a mouse model, researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig together with national and international partners including the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), the German Primate Center – Leibn...

Professor Željko Ivezić, Ph.D., professor of astrophysics and a member of the International Scientific Council of the University of Rijeka, has been appointed the next Director of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Construction Project upon the departure of Steve Kahn from the Project on January 3, 2022. “Željko’s knowledge of the Rubin Observatory system and his commitment to the Project are extraordinary, and I am confident that he will lead the Rubin Construction Project to a su...

The second conference of the Erasmus+ project EMPLOYS (Understanding, Evaluating, and Improving Good Governance in the Employment Relations of Athletes in Olympic Sports in Europe) was held on Friday, December 17, 2021, in Lisbon in a hybrid form. The University of Rijeka, i.e. the Faculty of Law is one of the project partners, along with Universidade Europeia (Portugal), Edge Hill University (Great Britain), and Institute for Sports Governance (Poland). The key-note lecture was delivered by Mr.

Professor Igor Mezić, a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Santa Barbara, California, and a member of the International Science Council of the University of Rijeka, was elevated to the rank of Fellow, the highest grade of membership that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) confers upon its members in acknowledgment of their extraordinary record of accomplishments in one of the IEEE’s fields of interest. Mezić was honored by the IEEE for his “contributi...

The Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz has welcomed 13 new members in their ranks, among them IBC2 Director Ivan Đikić, who is also a member of the International Science Council of the University of Rijeka. Đikić was in prominent company – BioNTech founders Uğur Şahin and Özlem Tureci were also amongst the new members announced. The Mainz Academy is one of Germany’s eight academies of science, its objectives are the cultivation of sciences and literature as well as preservation and promotion of culture. It is divided into three Clas...

Professor Danica Kragić Jensfelt, Ph.D., professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, one of Sweden's leading roboticists, and member of the International Science Council of the University of Rijeka, has been named "AI Swede of the Year" by TechSverige, an industry organisation in Sweden for companies of all sizes within the tech sector. The annual award goes to the individual which has contributed the most to the development and visibility of Swedish AI. Professor Kragić Jensfelt was awarde...

European Antibiotic Awareness Day is held each year on November 18th. That same week also marks World Antimicrobial Awareness Week. This year during that week, the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Medicine, and Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka are promoting the manual "Guidelines for hospital use of antimicrobial drugs" edited by a clinical pharmacology specialist, Prof. Vera Vlahović Palčevski, M.D., Ph.D. As co-publishers, they are promoting it as a contribution to marking the day and week of antibiotic awareness. This is the fifth, revised, and sup...

An online session of the International Scientific Council of the University of Rijeka was held on November 15, 2021, in the late afternoon, on the topic of "Young researchers - attracting talent, career development and assessing contributions to science and art." UNIRI Rector, Prof. Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Ph.D., greeted everyone present and pointed out that today's session is open to the interested public, and so the session was also attended by the members of the University of Rijeka Senate, members of the University Council, R...

Researchers across the YUFE alliance are being invited to take part in a survey that will help identify best practices and potential barriers to knowledge exchange and community-engaged research and innovation. It will also investigate what motivates research staff to actively engage in knowledge exchange activities. All academic staff across YUFE are invited to take part in the survey, regardless of the type of research they have carried out, as the project team wants to capture the diversity of knowledge exchange e...

Today, on July 12th, an organizational team of political philosophers and political epistemologists from the University of Rijeka's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences formally inaugurated the seventh edition of the Equality and Citizenship Summer School. This conference connects international academics interested in increasing socioeconomic inequalities, civic and human rights, and normative ethical standards. This year's Summer School opened with a lecture held by Ingrid Robeyns, an esteemed Dutch philosophe...

The Spanish alliance of research institutions of excellence, which gathers more than 50 research institutions across manifold areas of research (computer science, physics, chemistry, data science, neuroscience, biomedicine, mathematics, engineering, nanotechnology, biotechnology, environmental sciences, agronomy, space sciences, epidemiology, language studies, etc.) recently issued a call for new positions for Ph.D. students, postdocs, technicians, as well as some other job openings (e.g. technology transfer, project management, administration, senior research position...

The European Reform University Alliance (ERUA), launched on November 1, 2020, as part of the Erasmus+ European University Initiatives, is issuing a call of Expression of Interest to become a member of ERUAs Advisory Board (AB). The AB is set up to consist of international experts with proven expertise in the internationalization of education and research. The deadline for expression of interest is May 15, 2021. The ERUA Advisory Board will be composed of 5-10 international experts with proven experti...

The Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) in partnership with the Ministry of Higher Education for Research and Innovation (MESRI) have launched a visiting fellowship program to welcome young researchers wishing to carry out their research in France as part of a "One Health" approach. The "One Health" concept promotes an integrated, systemic approach to human, animal and ecosystem health at local, national and global scales. This approach provides a better understanding of the causes and consequences of the f...

Igor Mezić, professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Mathematics at UC Santa Barbara, member of the UNIRI International Scientific Council and honorary professor of the University of Rijeka, has been named the recipient of the biennial Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Activity Group on Dynamical Systems (SIAG/DS) J. D. Crawford Prize, established in 2000. The Crawford Prize recognizes contributions from a paper addressing fundamental issues in...

The Polish Academy of Sciences has launched the PASIFIC Fellowship Programme, co-financed by the European Commission under the MSCA COFUND scheme. Its main goal is to enable 50 scientists of any nationality, with a doctoral degree or a min. of 4-year full-time research experience, to spend two years at one of the Polish Academy of Sciences institutes. The PASIFIC fellows will be selected in two calls announced in 2021 – the first one will be launched soon, on March 15. On that day...