(Prof. Dr. Damir Markulak) New premises of the Faculty of Civil Engineering have been opened on Monday, 18 April 2016, at the campus of Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. The host of this festive occasion was the Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Assoc. Prof. Damir Varevac. The event was attended by the Rector, Prof. Dr. Željko Turkalj, by Prof. Dr. Srećko Tomas, Deputy Minister of Science, Education and Sports, Prof. Dr. Damir Markulak, Vice-Rector for strategy development and spatial planning, Prof. Dr. Tomislav Mrčela, Vice-Rector for finance and business relations, deans and vice-deans and heads [...]

(Prof. Rudolf Scitovski, Assist. Prof. Mario Vinković) At its session held on 22 December 2015, the Senate of Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek reached the decision to announce an internal call for proposals for research projects to encourage cooperation with prominent researchers from other (especially foreign) universities. The funds have been reserved for this purpose from the University Business Fund, amounting to 600.000,00 HRK for STEM areas (science, technology, engineering, medicine and mathematics) and 400.000,00 HRK for SS+ART area (Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts). This Call is the third in a series of internal calls of [...]

(mr.sc. Dragica Steindl) Doctoral education is a basic activity of the University, which has the key role in encouraging the research and creating the knowledge based society. In the past 41 years of University existence, there have been 883 Doctors of Sciences promoted. At the 36th Promotion of Doctors of Sciences held at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek on 9 April 2016, the Rector, Prof. Dr. Željko Turkalj promoted 85 Doctors of Sciences of Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek in the following scientific disciplines: Sciences (8) Scientific field of BiologySenka Blažetić; Ivana Kušan; [...]

(Lidija Getto, prof.univ.spec.) This year’s Festival of Science was held from April 18 to 23, 2016, in about 20 cities in Croatia. Its main theme was Science and art. However, the participants of the Festival of Science presented other topics interesting for broader audiences. Those were several important anniversaries: 160th anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla, 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity, 400th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. The Festival of Science has been organized in cooperation with British Council continuously since 2003 and sponsored by the Ministry of Sciences, Education and Sports. [...]

January, 2016 (Prof. Rudolf Scitovski, Prof. Marijana Zekić Sušac) Webometrics ranking comprises about 25000 institutions of higher education around the world. It is prepared by The Cybermetrics Lab (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC), showing the influence of a university on the Internet. The results of the ranking in Webometrics are published twice a year in January and July, and the University of Osijek is also included in this ranking list on which it strives for a better position, because this is one of ways to reach international recognition. Therefore, last year the University of Osijek published a special [...]