WELCOME TO THE LONG NIGHT AGAINST PROCRASTINATION IN THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Date: 27 March 2025
Time: 19.00-00.30
Location: UP University Library
Dear students.
We would like to invite you to a special event, where we will overcome procrastination together and ensure an effective night study experience!
The Long Night Against Procrastination is intended for you, students, who are facing procrastination in your studies, research, and writing. To help you get started, from 19.00 to 00.30, workshops on different topics will be available, such as:
- Motivation to overcome procrastination,
- Searching, organizing and using resources,
- Choosing the right resources and tools for artificial intelligence, and
- Recognizing and correcting statistical and language errors in writing.
Additional activities include:
- Indenpendent writing with support of an experienced researcher,
- Fractal drawing,
- Career counseling, and
- Therapeutic dogs.
Registration: The event is free of charge, but the number of spots is limited. Registration through form is required.
The event offers FREE academic support, free coffee, tea, fruit, and snacks. At 22.30 there will be free pizza!
About the event: The Long Night Against Procrastination is organized by the UP University Library and is aimed at atll students, wishing to improve their study habits and increase their efficiency in their work.
If you do not have your own laptop, you may borrow one in the Library. The event will be held in Slovene.
UP University Library will be close for the unregistered visitors during the event.
19.00-19.10 Welcome to participants, event overview and instructions
19.10-20.00 Inner motivation against procrastination (Maja Lešnik)
20.10-20.15 Break
20.15-20.45 Google is not everything: Mastery of resource searching (Haris Zukić and Tina Lekan Kraševec)
20.45-20.50 Break
20.50-21.20 Master references, not the other way around: using reference managers (Saša Planinc)
21.20-21.25 Break
21.25-21.55 What can AI do for me (and what it can’t)? (dr. Mojca Žefran)
21.55-22.00 Break
22.00-22.30 How to distinguish scientific sources from non-scientific ones? (dr. Jonatan Vinkler)
22.30-23.15 Active break (Sport UP) & Meal
23.15-23.45 Common mistakes in interpreting statistical data (dr. Ana Slavec)
23.45-23.50 Break
23.50-00.20 Languages and identities (dr. Suzana Todorović)
00.20-00.30 Workshop summary and event conclusion
Workshops will be held in room 2. Room 3 and the space for the group will be available for group/individual work from 20.00 to 22.00. Experienced academic author dr. Marko Gavriloski Tretjak will be available for assistance and advice.
The widely recognized concept of the Long Night Against Procrastination is usually held every year in March by higher education institutions all around the globe. The first event took place in 2010 at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt and is aimed at providing support to students at the beginning stages of their academic and research work.
Join us and let’s take a step together toward a more successful study process!
For more information, feel free to contact us at knjiznica@upr.si.