Full name: Vanja Riccarda Kiswarday
Address: Murgle 265, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
E-mail: Vanja.Kiswarday@ijs.si
Date of Birth: 22.04.1969
Tel.: +386/61/177-33-70
Fax: 061/219-385

Education history:

1987 -1992: Visited Faculty of Pedagogy, Department of Special Education
1992: Diploma entitled: Computer literacy for children with mild mental retardation
1993-1996: Postgraduate study at Faculty of Pedagogy, Department of Special Education
Now: Preparing a master degree work entitled: Using a computer as a didactical tool in education of children with a severe mental retardation.

Career Path:

1992: Started with a first job at Jozef Stefan Institute. Worked first as assistant, then as co-ordinator in different computer courses for young and adults. Later we prepared special computer courses for teachers and also several one week computer camps for youngsters.
1993 - : Started as young researcher (still at the Institute).
1996: I was included in a group that was developing educational programs. Within this group we had developed and organised several educational programs: "Learn to be an enterpreneur", "Computer supported learning of foreign languages", "How to study well and efficient".
Great part of my work is dedicated to children with special needs and possibilities, how a computer can be used by them in education, work and free time activities.

Hobbies
I love nature, so I spend a lot of my free time admiring it.
For example by mountaineering, (mountain) biking, outdoor camping, travelling around different countries...
For a good shape I do fitness.