The University of Zadar hosted His Excellency Agus Sardjana, Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia, who was accompanied by Sandri Ghifari, Third Secretary, on Thursday, 14 January 2016.

Peer-to-Peer Meeting on Cooperation in Development of Higher Education Contents in the Area of Aeronautics
A peer-to-peer meeting on cooperation in the development of higher education contents in the area of aeronautics was held in the University of Zadar's Rectorate building on 2 December 2015. The meeting was attended by Professor Robert O. Walton,PhD, Executive Director of European Operations for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA; Kjell Sundsli, President, and Frode Granlund, Chief Executive Director of Pilot Flight Academy from Sondefjord, Norway; Božidar Kalmeta, Mayor of the town of Zadar, Ivica Vlakić, Deputy Mayor of the town of Zadar, Vedrana Kevrić, Director of INOVACija, the representatives of the Zadar County, Zadar Airport, and Aerostandard; Marinko J. Šebrek, ERAU and the PFA intermediary and the initiator of the meeting; and finally the hosts Professor Dijana Vican, PhD, Rector of the University of Zadar, and deputy rectors Associate Professor Nedjeljka Balić Nižić,PhD, Associate Professor Ivanka Stričević, Phd, Associate Professor Slaven Zjalić, PhD, and Porfessor Josip Faričić, PhD.
The possibilities and needs for cooperation were presented at the meeting, all with the aim to plan and implement the development of scientific, teaching, and professional activities in aeronautics which represents a very dynamic and progressive area of activity. Aeronautics is based on highest scientific and technological standards. Zadar has been chosen as one of the European centres that fulfil very strict criteria: from geological and climatic, through organisational and infrastructural, to business and academic.
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A welcome reception for the students of the first year undergraduate and integrated studies was held on October 5, 2015 in the University's Great Hall. The students were first welcomed and greeted to the University of Zadar by Rector Dijana Vican, Full Professor. After wishing the students a warm welcome, the Rector represented the Zadar University. She acquainted the students with the manner of studying and the possibilities they had. Finally, she invited them to use the advantages of studying in a town the size of Zadar.
Štefan Štivičić, President of the Student Union, introduced the present students with the Union's function and invited them to actively participate in its work. He also announced the Orientation week between 12th and 16th October 2015, and the Freshman Party.
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New deputy rectors were elected at the first session of the University of Zadar's Senate in the 2015-2016 academic year, presided by Rector Dijana Vican, Full Professor: Nedjeljka Balić Nižić, Associate Professor; Deputy Rector for Studies and Student Affairs; Josip Faričić, Full Professor, Deputy Rector for Development Strategy and Publishing; Ivanka Stričević, Associate Professor, Deputy Rector for Scientific Affairs and Information Infrastructure; Zjalić, Associate Professor, Deputy Rector for Inter-Institutional Cooperation and Technology Transfer.

The inauguration of the new Rector Dijana Vican, Full Professor, was held on October 1, 2015 in the University's Great Hall.

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In August 2015 came out the press the English version of capital work The Geography of Croatia (in Croatian Geografija Hrvatske) written by Prof. Damir Magaš. For the first time this issue made possible to the wider world public, to broad knowledge upon geographical features of the Croatian territory.

On the University of Zadar's web page entitled Students with Disabilities, important and useful information can be found on studying opportunities for disabled students.

Vanda Mikšić, Assistant Professor at the Department of French and Iberoromance Studies, was rewarded with the medal of knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by Mrs Michèle Boccoz, Ambassador of the Republic of France in Croatia, on behalf of Mrs Fleur Pellerin, Minister of Culture and Communications.

Assoc. Prof. Stewart Schultz, PhD., from the Department of Ecology, Agronomy and Aquaculture of University of Zadar, published an interdisciplinary paper in 2011 in Limnology and Oceanography that predicted the northward migration of nudibranchs on the Pacific USA coast during climate regime shifts. It appears that the climate is shifting to a warm phase of the Pacific decadal oscillation, and just as he and his colleagues predicted, there are southern species of nudibranchs moving northward, with a beautiful example, Okenia rosacea in areas on the California coast where it has not been seen before in these numbers.

The book “Zadar's Riva as the Space of Urbanism” by Full Professor Inga Tomić Koludrović, Željka Tonković, PhD, and Željka Zdravković, PhD (edited by Mirko Petrić), is the result of research conducted by a task group of the University of Zadar’s Department of Sociology, within the strategy on the University’s cooperation with the local community.