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Lecturer: Matija Šuklje First we will quickly brush up on the basics of of copyright and other “intellectual property” rights, as well as what FOSS (=Free & Open Source Software) is. What follows is an introduction into FOSS (= Free & Open Source Software) and a slightly deeper dive into the main categories of FOSS licenses, […]

Lecturer: prof. dr. Barbara Koroušić Seljak, Institute Jozef Stefan, Slovenia Science is becoming increasingly data-driven. However, discovered data needs to be diverse and of high quality to make science efficient, reliable and responsive to societal challenges. This can be achieved only by making both data and science open. The lecture will provide an insight into […]

Lecturer: prof. dr. Zoran Ren, University of Maribor, Slovenia The University of Maribor is implementing a major infrastructural investment project RIUM to acquire new state-of-the-art scientific research equipment to support the priority research areas Advanced Materials and Technologies, Health and Safe Food, Smart Energy and Circular Systems. The existing and new research infrastructure will be […]

Lecturer: prof. dr. Miran Ulbin, University of Maribor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering The EU has launched EuroHPC Joint Undertaking initiative plan to build an exascale HPC by 2025. A representative petascale HPC system VEGA, with prototype HPC system Maister, was built in Maribor, Slovenia. The aim is to establish a national HPC system with low […]

Lecturer: dr. Aljoša Hafner, CERIC-ERIC, Trieste, Italy In the last decades, large research facilities have played a vital role in the research output of many high-impact fields, e. g. protein crystallography. Such research facilities (synchrotrons, neutron sources, etc.) provide essential experimental infrastructure (X-rays, neutrons, ion beams, etc.) to their users (researchers from universities and industry), […]