The document discusses student projects and cooperation with industry at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics at the University of Zagreb. It provides details about the faculty's fields of expertise and active projects. It also describes initiatives to involve students in competitions, hackathons, and startups to foster their creativity. Examples are given of successful student projects like The Drop of Life mobile app for blood donation. The faculty aims to further boost the creative potential of students through continued support for entrepreneurship and reducing risks for new ideas.

1. FACULTY OF ORGANIZATION AND INFORMATICS
UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB
Student projects and
cooperation with industry
NEVEN VR EKČ
DEAN
Prof.dr.sc.

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UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB
- UNIZG
The oldest and
the largest
university in
Croatia
1669.
Founded
29
Faculties
3
Art
academies
3
University
centres
• SRCE- IT Centre
• University & National Library
• Student Centre
70
000
Students
(all study levels)
9 000
Teaching staff
(all study levels)
1874.
Became
State university

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FACULTY OF ORGANIZATION
AND INFORMATICS - FOI
• Medium sized faculty
• Leading higher
education institution in
Croatia to provide
education in applied
information technology
and information
sciences
1974.
Founded

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FOI FIELDS OF EXPERTISE
• Organizational development
• Business process engineering, business
process modelling
• E-business
• deployment of e-business standards
(UBL, CII, Core components)
• security (PKI, CA, accreditation)
• legislative and standards
• semantic and technical interoperability
• cloud computing – interoperabilty,
cost benefit analysys
• E-Government
• Regulatory impact assesment
• Legislative and standards
• E-Learning

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FOI FIELDS OF EXPERTISE
• Software modeling and development
• Generative programming
• Automatic programming
• OO Analysis and Design
• Service oriented architecture development
• Database modeling and design
• Web development (XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Java, Web servisi, AJAX)
• Database development and administration (Oracle, PL/SQL)
• UML Papyrus, Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF Plugins, metamodelling)
• Android development
• Windows Phone development
• iOS DEvelopment
• Scripting languages (Python, Shell, Tcl/Tk, JavaScript, PHP)
• GUI languages (Gambas)
• Declarative languages (SQL, xPath/xQuery, Prolog, Flora-2, Datalog)

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FOI FIELDS OF EXPERTISE
• Software Architecture
• Component oriented architecture, pattern languages
• Middleware
• Heterogeneous systems (Multicore, GPU, FPGA)
• Database architecture design
• postgresql, mysql, mssql, oracle
• postgis GEO extensions
• Complex relational or NoSQL database design, implementation and tuning
• PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, CouchDB, eXist-DB, ZODB, Datalog
• Statistical analysis and data mining
• Standard statistical analysis of large data sets (R, SAS, Matlab, Statistica)
• Data mining on large data sets (R, SAS, Matlab, Weka)

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FOI FIELDS OF EXPERTISE
• Text mining
• Analysis of large collections of documents
• Automatic classification, clustering
• Semantic information retrieval, dimension reduction
• Cross-lingual information retrieval
• Multi-agent Systems
• Complex multi-agent system design, development and implementation
• Automated planning, negotiation, reasoning etc.
• Finite state machines agent implementation
• Complex agent knowledge-base and ontology implementation
• Agent-based modeling
• SPADE (Smart Python Agent Development Environment), Swarm/SLAPP
(Swarm Like Agent Protocol in Python)

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FOI FIELDS OF EXPERTISE
• Formal
methods &
theory
• First order logic
• Frame logic
• Description logic
• BDI logic
• Graph theory
• Database theory
(relational, active,
deductive, temporal,
object.relational, object-
oriented, semi-
structured etc.)
• Autopoiesis theory
• Laws of form
• Network development
• MAC layer protocol design (JIST/swans)
• Wireless networks communication systems
• DSRC service development
• Multiple sensor application development (V2V
environments)
• Implementation of custom network filtering
solutions
• Network security tools and techniques:
• VLAN's, L3,L4 i L7 filtering with
iptables, pf and pfsense.
• IDS solutions: Snort, OSSEC and VPN's
with OpenVPN and IPSec
• cryptographic software and systems development
based on open source technologies or standards:
OpenSSL, GnuPG, OpenPGP, OpenSSH, X509

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FOI FIELDS OF EXPERTISE
• Network science
• Complex network analysis and
visualization
• Web network mining
• Social and semantic network analytics
• NetworkX, Pajek, Lanet-vi, Scrapy
• Information systems security
• Security tools: nmap, ncrack, nessus,
openvas, metasploit framework, w3af,
skipfish, sqlmap, wireshark, john,
oclhashcat
• methodologies: OSSTMM, OWASP,
ISO27000 family, NIST SP800
• security testing, security analysis and
penetration testing
• cryptography systems implementation
and security analysis
• Cloud Computing
• configuring and developing
applications for Google App
Engine, Salesforce and
Microsoft Azure
• migrating data among
different cloud computing
providers
• application programming
interfaces (APIs) based
interoperability of cloud
computing
• Google Web Toolkit widgets

10. ACTIVE PROJECTS

11. ACTIVE PROJECTS

12. ACTIVE PROJECTS

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INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH
FOI has had experience in:
• EU-funded projects: FP6/7, EUREKA, IPA, TEMPUS, LLP, CARDS
• State funded projects: BICRO, HIT, NSF, MSES, ESF
• Industry funded projects
* Countries
where FOI
established project
cooperation

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FOI STUDENTS IN NUMBERS
2 876
STUDENTS
500
DEGREES PER YEAR109SCHOOLS FROM
REGION
How to involve students and foster their creativity?

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STUDENT COMPETITIONS
FOI CORE Smartup natjecanje Social Impact Award 2015
Case Study Competition Imagine Cup 2015
App Start Contest Software StartUp Academy
Akademija regionalnog razvoja i EU fondova
CoinWisdom konferencija Career Boot Camp
Geek Business Camp ZABA Moj Start natječaj
Rubicon Contest 2015 Case Study Competition
CORE HUB natjecanje WinDays15 konferencija

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HACKATHONS
Osijek Software City Hackathon
Shift Split
Niš
RIPE Atlas Hackathon Amsterdam
READY STEADY CODE 2.0
• organizers: Asseco SEE & FOI
• 24 hours
• Biggest hackathon in Croatia

17. KI expert
• Thermodynamics, construction, building materials
• Cooperation
 Knauf Insulation d.o.o Novi Marof
 Technical faculty Rijeka
 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture
Zagreb
 Ministry of Construction and Physical Planning

18. New version KI Expert

19. Screenshots
22

20. Screenshots

21. Visual identity
24

22. Visual identity
25

23. Visual identity
26

24. Center for student support and career
development

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CAREER DAY
Tips & Tricks 4 IT Business Geeks
Student projects and business cases:
Drop of life (state prize - Croatian pride)
Smart Glove
SeierFriendApp
eVrtić
Tourgent
40+ employers
250+ students
2 tracks
New technologies, alumni and employers
networking
~1000 streamers

26. Kap Života
The Drop Of Life
wedonate.life
kapzivota.hr

27. PARTICIPAN
TS
• Core
• Croatian institute for transfusion medicine
• Authorized institution for blood donation in Croatia
• Asseco SEE
• Largest software exporter in Croatia
• Infrastructure provider
• Faculty of Organization and informatics
• Krunoslav Domić
• Igor Rinkovec
• Tomislav Jelčić
• Armin Vrević
• Alen Huskanović
• Irina Rinkovec
• Boris Tomaš
• Partners
• Infobip d.o.o.
• SMS provider

28. HISTORY
• Ready, Steady, Code 1.0. Hackathon
– 1st place
• Ponos Hrvatske 2015
(Croatian Pride Award)
• Annual award for creativity and
innovation in category of social
responsibility

29. FEATURES
• Free software
• Volunteer based participation
• CRM system for blood donors
• Mobile application
• Donation scheduling
• Closest donation spot search
• Education module for informing potential
and current donors about importance of
donations, procedure, and benefits.
• Statistics and gamification (social networks
integration)
• Call for action (institution target specific
donors and invite them to donate)

30. FUTURE
• 2016 – Full implementation in Croatia
• Cross platform solution (native)
• Localization and globalization
• Cross border blood donation
mechanism

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STUDENT SUPPORT
Startup@foi
•Support for establishment of
companies
•Free consulting, legal
assistance, accounting
services, working space and
networking

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http://www.tourgent.co/

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http://www.mybeeline.co

35. Future?
• How to further boost the most creative part of life?
• How to reduce risks?
• How to reduce curriculum rigidity?
• How to ensure sustainability?
• Cooperation opportunities within the region?