Nives Mikelić Preradović PhD, full professor with tenure Office hours: Friday 11.45-12:30, room E-315 (by appointment); schedule meeting via e-mail E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phone: +385-1-4092323

Resume:

Education: 

• PhD in Information Science, University of Zagreb (2008)
• MPhil in Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technology, University of Cambridge (2004)
• MSc in Information Science, University of Zagreb (2003)
• BSc in Croatian language, University of Zagreb (2001)
• BSc Information Science, University of Zagreb (2001)

She is the Head of the Chair for the Knowledge Organization at the Department of Information and Communication Sciences.

From 2021 to 2024, she was the President of the Scientific Field Committee for Information and Communication Sciences.

Her research expertise includes service-learning, natural language processing, instructional design and computer-assisted learning.

• Ivan Filipovic national award for Service Learning in Higher Education (2017)
• U.S. Department of State grant for the project “Strengthening Self-employment Capabilities and Capacities through International Service Learning Projects (2013)
• JFDP scholarship (Junior Faculty Development Program, funded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs) in academic year 2005/2006
• MTCP (Malaysian Technical Cooperation Programme) scholarship in 2005
• Cambridge Overseas Trust scholarship at the University of Cambridge in academic year 2003/2004
• Rector's Award for student paper “Dictionarium of Faust Vrancic in 16th and 21st century – inside view” mentored by Prof. Damir Boras in 2001

Reviewer and board member:

1. INFuture (The Future of Information Sciences)– member of the Conference Standing Board of Reviewers
2. KEOD (Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development) conference – member of the Program Committee and reviewer
3. TSD (Text, Speech and Dialogue) conference – member of the Conference Board of Reviewers
4. Automatika (Journal for Control, Measurement, Electronics, Computing and Communications) - reviewer

5. LTA (Language Technologies and Applications) – member of the Program Committee and reviewer

6. Media studies (www.mediastudies.fpzg.hr) - reviewer

7.  

   Studia Lexicographica - journal o the Lexicographical Institute Miroslav Krleža– member of the Program Committee and reviewer

Foreign languages:English, Italian, Czech. 

Scholarly Lectures/Workshops:

• "Service learning in higher education", workshop presented at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, June, 2016 (funded by the European Union's Erasmus+ programme)
• "Service-Learning Networking in Higher Education"workshop presented at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, April, 2016 (funded by the European Union's Erasmus+ programme)
• „Service learning in primary, secondary and higher education“, workshop presented at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, February, 2014.
• “Faculties, schools and school libraries in action - introduction to service learning” workshop, presented at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, February, 2010.
• “Service learning and knowledge: successful projects in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb”, workshop presented at the JFDP Regional Conference: “Teaching methods and Techniques at the Universities in South Eastern Europe” in Zagreb, March 2009
• "Service Learning: a cutting-edge teaching and learning methodology embracing social action with critical inquiry and classroom work”, workshop presented at the conference “Beyond Frontiers 2020: Anticipating Security and Defence Challenges, Opportunities and Dilemmas in Western Balkan”, Belgrade, Serbia, 2009.
• “Multimedia in foreign language teaching and learning,” workshop presented at the Foreign Language Studies Center, University of Dubrovnik, Croatia, April, 2008.
• “Service learning in secondary schools", workshop presented to the members of the Karlovac County Council of Teachers Of English, Karlovac, March, 2008
• “Service learning in the social sciences and humanities" workshop presented to the faculty members of the University of Rijeka and representatives of the Association for the Development of Higher Education “Universitas", February, 2008
• "Introduction to Community-Based Service Learning” workshop, presented at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, February, 2008. (funded by EUR/ACE Democracy Outreach/Alumni Fund)
• “Multimedia in education: primary school, secondary school and higher education,” workshop presented at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, February, 2007.

Fields of interest:

• Natural Language Processing (language resources: valency lexicons, learner corpora)
• Service Learning (community-based learning and research)
• Multimedia Applications in Education
• CALL

Publications listed in the Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI)

Projects:

National coordinator of the EU projects:

1. Erasmus + project SLIDE: Service-Learning as a pedagogy to promote Inclusion, diversity and Digital Empowerment (2022-), 2021-1-BE02-KA220-HED-000032235
2. Erasmus + project eSL4EU  e-Service Learning for more digital and inclusive EU Higher Education systems (2021-), 2021-1-PL01-KA220-HED-00003
3. Erasmus + Knowledge Alliances project Rural 3.0: Service Learning for the Rural Development (2019-2021)
4. COST Action: European Network for Combining Language Learning with Crowdsourcing Techniques (2017-2021)
5. ESF project Ja raSTEM! - multi-year interdisciplinary STEM program of innovative teaching of gifted primary school students (2017-2019)
6. Erasmus + KA2 project Europe Engage - Developing a Culture of Civic Engagement through Service-Learning within Higher Education in Europe (2015-2017)

Project collaborator:

EU projects:

1. H2020 CLEOPATRA Cross-lingual Event-centric Open Analytics Research Academy (2019-2022)
2. EU EFRR Establishment and equipping of the Center for Advanced Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (2020-2022)
3. EU CEF Telecom PRINCIPLE Providing Resources in Irish, Norwegian, Croatian and Icelandic for Purposes of Language Engineering (2019-2021)
4. Erasmus+ KA2 DigiLing - Trans-European e-Learning Hub for Digital Linguistics (2016-2019)
5. ESF "Contribution to the improvement of early intervention through service learning in the City of Zagreb and Brod-Posavina County" (2019)
6. ESF "Harmonization of study programs in the field of social sciences and humanities with the needs of the labor market" (2015-2016)
7. U.S. Department of State project "Strengthening Self-employment Capabilities and Capacities through International Service Learning Projects" (2013)
8. EU FP7 Abu-MaTran: Automatic Building of Machine Translation (2012-)
9. EU-ICT-PSP CESAR: CEntral and South-east europeAn Resources (01/02/2011 to 31/01/2013)
10. EU Lets MT! Platform for Online Sharing of Training Data and Building User Tailored Machine Translation. (2010-2012).
11. EU FP7 ACCURAT: Analysis and evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of machine Translation (15/11/2010 to 30/06/2012)

National projects:

1. Typology of Knowledge and Information Processing Methods (2002-2005)
2. Design and Management of Public Knowledge in the Information Space (2007-2012)