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On July 15, 2026, the School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics held a session of its Economic Council at which the planned changes to the undergraduate study programs were presented. Representatives of the business community took part in a productive discussion and expressed strong support for the proposed direction of the reform. The reform thoroughly restructures the two existing undergraduate programs in order to align them more closely with the needs of the labor market and with contemporary technological trends, above all in the field of artificial intelligence.

According to the latest data from the 2025 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), the scientific journal Mathematical Communications, published by the School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, has been ranked in the Q1 quartile in the Mathematics category. The journal achieved a Journal Impact Factor of 1.2 and was ranked 115th among 492 journals in this category.

In April, the 33rd edition of the international competition Vojtěch Jarník International Mathematical Competition was held, bringing together nearly one hundred participants from various countries. Among them were students from our Faculty, who achieved notable results.

This week, the international mathematics competition “International Youth Math Challenge” was concluded. The competition is intended for high school and university students from all around the world. Schools and universities from more than 100 countries participated, placing it among the larger international competitions of this kind.

The School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics in Osijek proudly organizes the Osijek Competitive Programming Camp (OCPC) 2026, a unique international training camp and competition in competitive programming, intended for students and teams from all around the world. OCPC is an intensive program designed to provide participants with hands-on experience in solving algorithmic problems and to prepare them for major competitions such as the ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest).

At the beginning of the new academic year, a special group was formed at Mathos for students interested in participating in international mathematics competitions. The aim of this initiative is to strengthen students’ problem-solving skills and to introduce them to advanced techniques and strategies necessary for success in top-level competitions.

At the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Wroclaw in Poland, the Central European Regional Contest (CERC) of the ICPC programming competition was held from December 5 to 7, 2025. A total of 70 teams from 31 universities from eight Central European countries participated: Austria, Czechia, Croatia, Latvia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

The Council of the School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics (mathos) has adopted the Framework for the Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools at the School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics. The Framework promotes ethical, responsible, and transparent application of AI technologies in accordance with academic and research standards. It defines acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI tools, outlines responsibilities of authors, and establishes principles of good practice.

The School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics has achieved significant success in the Croatian Science Foundation calls IP-2025-02 and UIP-2025-02, in which two new projects have been approved: IP-2025-02 – Research Project “Optimization of Parameter-Dependent Systems with Applications”, Principal Investigator: Prof. Zoran Tomljanović and UIP-2025-02 – Installation Research Project “Development of Hyperheuristics for a Heterogeneous-Machine Environment with Additional Resources”, Principal Investigator: Prof. Mateja Đumić.

Veliko nam je zadovoljstvo objaviti da je naš asistent Tomislav Prusina, zajedno sa svojim internacionalnim timom Chlorophyll Crew (Hanna Herasimchyk, Robin Labryga, University of Hamburg), osvojio treće mjesto na prestižnom međunarodnom natjecanju PlantCLEF 2025, održanom na platformi Kaggle.