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Gjoko Nikolovski is a doctor of science in the field of Slovenian linguistics and an associate professor of the Slovenian language. He is employed at the Department of Slavic Languages ​​and Literatures of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Maribor, where he teaches courses in the field of the Slovenian language and South Slavic languages. As a member of the research program Slovene Linguistics, Literature and Teaching Slovene from a synchronic and diachronic perspective, he researches Slovene and South Slavic languages ​​on various linguistic levels. Since 2022, he has been the editor of the scientific monographs Slavic intertwinings 1, 2, 3, 4 and the head of the Summer School of the Slovene Language as a Second and Foreign Language Slovenian at First Sight. He was involved in the project Slovenian in the palm of your hand (2017–2021), within the framework of which an innovative interactive learning e-environment for Slovenian was created. Within the project Digitization and accessibility of dictionary resources (2018–2019) and Upgrade of the dictionary portal Termania (2022–2023) led the creation of the Macedonian-Slovenian, Slovenian-Macedonian and Slovenian-Serbian dictionaries. He was also the leader of student projects, within the framework of which the free online applications SOS Slovene (2019), Hotel Slovenščina (2020) and Zdravka (2023) were created, which are intended for learning Slovenian as a second and foreign language at various levels. In the period from 2024 to 2025 he participates as a researcher in the project Slovenian in the palm of your hand 3.

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: gjoko.nikolovski@um.si

Natalija Ulčnik holds a PhD in linguistics and works as an associate professor for Slovene language and lectures at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor. Her research interests include the history of the Slovene (literary) language, lexicology, lexicography, phraseology and paremiology. She focuses on linguistic developmental laws, changes in Slovene and literary variance, and more recently the preparation of phraseological learning materials in the digital environment. She was the head of the projects Slovene in the Palm of Your Hand (2017–2021) and Slovene in the Palm of Your Hand 2 (2022–2023)), within which a learning e-environment for Slovene was prepared and upgraded. She edited monographs Slovene in the Palm of Your Hand 1-4, which are related to digitization in linguistics, development, and use of language resources, and learning e-environments. She has participated in several research projects in linguistics, including the lexicographic project Hungarian-Slovenian Dictionary (2015–2019), carried out at the Faculty of Arts of the ELTE University in Budapest. She is a Slovene Linguistics, Literature, and Slovene Language Teaching Research Program member

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: natalija.ulcnik@um.si