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Dear students.
The University of Maribor offers you comprehensive support in developing your potential and overcoming challenges during your studies. With the UM Student Hub, support is available to all UM students when deciding to study, during their studies and at the end of their studies when integrating into the labour market.
Check out and follow also:
- UM Student Hub website,
- news at my.UM,
- upcoming events and workshops for students,
- The University of Maribor social media: Facebook UM, LinkedIn UM, Instagram UM.
For participating in educational workshops, students also receive certificates (in a portfolio), which you can attach to your CV.
Project description
This project addresses two main problems identified with regards to reconfigurations of work in platform capitalism: the potential loss of bargaining power of workers over their pay and working conditions within the seemingly invisible process of algorithmic management of digital giants, and the issue of decent work due to potential precarisation of platform workers and the dissolution of workers’ rights.
The Economic and Social Council of the Republic of Slovenia involves employers' associations, trade unions and the government of the Republic of Slovenia. The global platform economy brings important challenges to this system: not only from the perspective of workers and the future of their collective organisation but also from the perspective of employers and regulators positioned in a small country at the periphery of global platform economy.
Through co-participatory research in partnership with The Association of Free Trade Unions of Slovenia this project examines how platform management practices, strategies and actions of workers and government regulation interact to shape pay and working conditions, secure control of the labour process and limit or expand bargaining position of platform workers – from the broader perspective of what these trends might mean for the future of tripartite system in Slovenia and similar countries.
Expected impacts of the projects address the SDG 8: decent work and sustained economic growth. We expect the project to contribute to decreasing and preventing future precarisation of platform workers by identifying potentially problematic management practices, identifying workers’ inequalities according to gender, class, age, nationality, and employment status. The project will also contribute to extending benefits of platform work to workers by identifying conditions under which platform work brings positive work reconfigurations, identifying and building necessary new digital skills, aiding in collective organization of platform workers and influencing policy- making and potentially also platform management.
Key words: platform work, social dialogue, agent-based modelling
The FT UM Student Council is inviting applications for five student tutors and two tutors for international students, among whom it will also select a tutor coordinator and his or her assistant for the 2022/2023 academic year.
Among the applicants, the Committee will select student tutors, two international student tutors, a tutor coordinator and his or her assistant at FT UM.
Students that meet all the suitability assessment criteria under Articles 8 and 11 of the FT UM Rules on the Tutoring System may apply for a tutor position at FT UM; specifically, this means that they:
– Have completed the second semester of a first-cycle Bologna degree programme;
– Have passed at least seven exams from the first two semesters of the programme;
– Are communicative and ready to work with their academic colleagues;
– Can accept and respect other people's opinions;
– Have a positive attitude towards tutoring;
– Are familiar with the wider student situation and issues;
– Actively engage in extracurricular activities;
– Have received a positive opinion from the FT Student Council;
– Are well acquainted with studying at FT.
In addition to meeting all the criteria above, applicants for international student tutors must also have a good command of the language used by the international students they tutor. The Committee will conduct an interview with individual applicants and obtain opinions about the
applicant's suitability if available.
Applications must be submitted on the prescribed form, which is enclosed with this decision (Form1), together with all other required enclosures and in a single copy to the FT UM secretary's office by Thursday, 10 October 2022, at 10 am in a sealed envelope labelled "FT student tutor application – do not open".
The applicants must submit the following:
– A completed and signed application form;
– A certificate of enrolment for the 2022/2023 academic year.
Late applications will be rejected.
At the beginning of the new academic year, we kindly invite you to read the letter of the Minister of Education, Science and Sports dr. Igor Papič and Minister of Health Danijel Bešič Loredan, in which they express their thanks for your tolerance and patience as well as responsibility and understanding during the difficult period of the last two years due to the consequences of the COVID-19 epidemic, and urge you to follow the recommended hygiene measures and recommendations to prevent the transmission and spread of the infection in education premises.
In order to ensure a safe educational environment in the new academic year, we kindly ask you to follow the following recommendations:
- only healthy students should attend lectures,
- self-testing for infection with SARS-CoV-2 and
- use of the #OstaniZdrav application according to the recommendations.
IMPORTANT: Students in Slovenia have 10 free self-tests per month available for pick-up at a pharmacy based on a health card, ID or student card/certificate of schooling.
In case of suspicion of infection, please act in accordance with the recommendations of the NIJZ Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) - key information | www.nijz.si.
In case of POSITIVE TEST, you should also inform the Student Affairs Department of the Faculty of Tourism at referat.ft@um.si.
We thank you in advance for your cooperation and contribution to ensuring a safe educational environment and wish you a successful start to the new academic year!
The University of Maribor (International Relations Office) organizes a Slovene language course for future international students. The course will be online and will take place on VZUMoodle.
All you have to do to join the classes is to register at the following website with your email address: https://vzumoodle.um.si/?lang=en. After the registration, you will receive a confirmation to the email address you have to confirm. After then, you can access the VZUMoodle and material at the link below: https://vzumoodle.um.si/course/view.php?id=21
The key to entering the group is: scfisum22
The online Slovene language course will start on September 21 (Wednesday) at 12.00. You will have enough time to check the lessons and do exercises. There will be two lessons every week. When you finish the first one (and if the test is successful), it will open the second one.
Students who successfully complete the first four lessons until October 6 can join lessons in conversation with the teacher. If you have any questions regarding the Slovene language course, feel free to contact us at erasmus@um.si.
Please note that the above online course is not a substitute for the course that will be organized in Brežice for first-year students studying in the Slovenian language.
We want to inform you that the timetable for the winter semester 2022/23 has been published.
There are possible minor changes to the timetable, as coordination with the classrooms is still ongoing.
Timetable available at:
Between 5 and 7 September the Faculty of Tourism held Welcome Days for its English-programme students in Ljubljana. The objective was to provide students with critical information for a smooth transition to academic life and an effective integration into the new environment.
It has been almost four years since the Faculty of Tourism of the University of Maribor has launched two Tourism programmes in the English language for part-time students. Our international students, who are currently predominantly Indian, are enrolled into Contemporary Tourism Practices and Tourism Destinations and Experiences, a Professional Bachelor and Masters programme, respectively. Both programmes are delivered in Ljubljana, at the Faculty’s dislocated unit, the Ljubljana student campus (ŠOU Kampus).
Experience has shown that these students, who come from a different cultural background, face certain challenges both on their academic path and in adjusting to life here. The three-day event was thus directed primarily to freshmen, to facilitate their smoother transition to studies in Slovenia.
On Day 1, students received core information about the study process at the University of Maribor and thus the Faculty of Tourism. We explained students’ rights and obligations, the ECTS system, student representation, extracurricular activities in Ljubljana, study and work exchanges, and much more. Day 2 was orientation. A team of the Faculty’s staff, together with the appointed Student Buddies, took students around Ljubljana, visiting among others the Central Economic Library to enrol and the Students Health Centre. Day 3 delivered workshops where freshmen tested their formal correspondence, academic writing and Moodle skills. Students were also given a broad introduction to IT services for students by the UM Computer Centre.
This newly obtained skills and information package will provide for a smoother transition of international students to academic life in Slovenia, paving the way for their academic success.
Dear Faculty of Tourism University of Maribor students!
Our Faculty is this year in the process of its strategy renovation. We want to design a modern strategy up to 2030, so the students will get the promised study experience, and our research groups will contribute to the scientific field of tourism.
Hence, we invite you to help us build our shared strategy. Please, answer the survey and contribute your ideas – click on the link: https://forms.office.com/r/LVqeVMFyst
Thank you for creating our future!
Faculty of tourism UM Strategy Team
Open positions at Faculty of Tourism:
SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE | EURAXESS (europa.eu)
RESEARCHER | EURAXESS (europa.eu)
Please send your application, along with proof that you meet the requirements, via e-mail to prijava.ft@um.si by September 17 2022 by 12:00.
We are publishing a call for student apartments of the Faculty of Tourism of the UM for the academic year 2022/23 in Brežice. The tender is available HERE (in Slovene).
More about accommodation options in Brežice: https://www.ft.um.si/bodoci-studenti/studentsko-zivljenje/#bivanje