The main purpose of the symposium in Ljubljana, which was attended by 450 participants from 25 countries, was the integration of anthropological knowledge and skills with other scientific areas, and particularly with climatology, as well as the IT and non-governmental sectors. The invited speakers at the event were Prof. Dr. Lučka Kajfež Bogataj (University of Ljubljana), Dr. Genevieve Bell (Intel), Prof. Dr. Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo), Dr. Joana Breidenbach (Betterplace.org) and Prof. Dr. Lenora Bohren (Colorado State University). The symposium was organised by the EASA Applied Anthropology Network, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, University of Ljubljana, VU University Amsterdam, University Campus CIELS Padova, Slovene Ethnological and Anthropological Association KULA, and University of Delaware. Sponsors of the event were Comtrade and EASA. Media partners were the publishing house Delo, magazine Razpotja, and web portals Metina lista and Tromba. Dan Podjed, Saša Babič and Emilija Stojmenova Duh from the DriveGreen project were involved in the organising committe of the symposium, and Jurij Fikfak was a member of the international advisory board.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 39594029The Telematics Conference SEEurope is organized annually, every autumn, and has been the main event in the field of telematics for commercial vehicle fleet management in Southeast Europe since 2011. The host country changes from one year to the next, rotating between 15 countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey. Belgrade hosted the conference in 2011, Ljubljana in 2012, Zagreb in 2013, Bucharest in 2014, and Sofia in 2015. The conference brings together the key stakeholders, experts and R&D companies in the field. It focuses on regional and global trends in fleet management, logistics and transport. DriveGreen project team members Alenka Bezjak Mlakar and Dan Podjed have been the organisers of the conference since its inception. The conference is important for the dissemination of the results of the project, since it provides an opportunity to establish and maintain relationships with the main manufacturers of ecodriving technologies in Southeastern Europe. In addition, the main applied output of the project, i.e. the ‘1, 2, 3 Ljubljana’ smartphone application, was announced at the event.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 33864285This master thesis (co-menthor: Dan Podjed) discusses different driving surveillance systems that help the driver behave more eco-friendly; that is under somebody’s top-down surveillance, mutual surveillance and self-surveillance. Driving surveillance and giving out driving information can result in a more efficient driving style, which is connected to a less negative impact on the environment. The purpose of the thesis is to carry out the analysis of self-surveillance. In order to observe its actual behaviour, an analysis was conducted by using the Eco Drive mobile application on ten drivers. The selection of the application was based on the accessibility level and simplicity of use. The results describing the application’s influence on average fuel consumption are included as well. A comparison has been made for their presentation, therefore the differences are clearly evident. What is more, questionnaires and interviews were conducted in order to include drivers’ personal experience based on the use of the application. The analysis has shown that the application had a positive influence on the driving style, as on average fuel consumption was reduced by nine per cent. Consequently, if the application was more widely used, fuel consumption would significantly decrease and the drivers’ impact on the environment would be lower. The drivers mainly expressed good opinion on the application, however some safety doubts occurred regarding the usage of the application while driving and some weak points of the application, such as “software bugs”, were exposed. The results of the analysis are of great importance to a company named CVS Mobile that deals with the development of an eco-driving mobile application.
D.10 Educational activities
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