A team of students of the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, who developed the game Lia and organised a successful tournament in programming and artificial intelligence in March, advanced to the finals of the Rector's Award for the Best Innovation of the University of Ljubljana in 2019. The members of the team are Aljaž Švigelj, Gregor Robert Krmelj and Miha Hribar.

Lia offers a fun and interactive way to improve programming knowledge, research approaches to the development of artificial intelligence, and through competition and collaboration promotes socialising and integration of the programming community. Using the online editor or in a specifically developed programme on their computers, the players develop their solution and upload it to an online application where automatic competition between programmes of all players takes place, automatic sorting of solutions according to their quality and, of course, the ability to view and analyse all the games played. The first tournament, which ended in March, was attended by over 60 Slovenian students and the team is already preparing the first international competition. Learn more about the game at www.liagame.com.

We recall that the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, already has a winner of the competition for the best innovation, as a team of students and employees at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, with the project "Interactive regulation of the building design" received the Rector's Award for the Best Innovation at the UL in 2017.

This year, 20 teams competed for the Rector's Award for the Best Innovation at the University of Ljubljana, and the best eight advanced to the finals, where they will present their ideas at a special event that will be held on Wednesday, 15 May 2019 at 5 pm at the Chamber Hall of the University of Ljubljana (UL).

Three most profound will be awarded prizes and awards by the Rector Prof. Dr. Igor Papič. The competition is a joint project of the UL and the Ljubljana University Incubator (LUI), which is intended for UL employees, researchers, teaching staff, students and alumni of the UL.

Brief presentations of all finalists are published on the website of the University of Ljubljana.