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ZAGREB, 9 Feb 2022 - Organisers of the Terry Fox Run in Croatia have donated HRK 50,000 raised in this year's anti-cancer week to Dr. Mladen Ćepulić, Department of Oncology and Haematology at the Children's Hospital Zagreb. The Terry Fox Run has been organised in Croatia since 2000 and has raised almost HRK 7 million in that time for cancer research. Due to the pandemic, this year's event was organised online. The director of the Children's Hospital, Goran Roić, said on Wednesday that the recovery rate in children is more than 80%, however treatment is often complicated. This year's donation will be…

February 9, 2022 - We are nearly a week into the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, and national pride has completed another two-year cycle, regaining its place at the top of the global psyche. Amidst considerable controversy and closely aligning with the second anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, all eyes are again on Beijing. Two years ago, the world watched with anxiety as a novel virus threatened to take the lives of millions and completely disrupt human livelihood. Now, after months of riding an epidemiological rollercoaster, citizens are refocusing their attention once more, this time to cheer on national heroes as…

ZAGREB, 9 Feb 2022 - In 2021, the second pandemic year, Croatian museums logged 2,549,841 visitors, up 74% on 2020 but only 48% of the visits recorded before the pandemic, a survey by the Museum Documentation Centre shows. The survey was conducted last month and covered 141 of Croatia's 164 public and private museums. While many European museums were closed last year due to COVID, this was not the case in Croatia where the number of visitors was also a result of revived tourism last summer. Almost 25% of the visitors registered last year visited the three usually most popular museums.…

February 9, 2022 - Lauba's project cycle "Send on" continues with exhibitions of works by young authors, and this time hosts the artist Tara Stanić. The opening of the exhibition ''Only Dreams'' will take place on Thursday, February 10, at 19:00. The exhibition cycle "Send on" of the House for People and Art Lauba, in which young authors have the opportunity to present themselves to the public, continues on Thursday, February 10, with the exhibition "Only Dreams" by Tara Stanić, reports Večernji List. ''In these works, I transfer my own dreams into reality by focusing on the atmosphere and emotion I had at…

February 9, 2022 - The Jadroplov electric ferry, the first large Croatian ship to transport 1,000 passengers and 156 cars without the emission of harmful gases, could sail in 2024.  Sometime in the spring, the construction of an electric ferry could begin in one of the Croatian shipyards. It would be the first of its kind in Croatia - without harmful gases. The project documentation is nearing completion, with all calculations and model tests. The prototype was designed by the Split company "Classis." Predrag Čudina, a ship designer with forty years of experience, told Slobodna Dalmacija more.  "The ship will be built…

February 9, 2022 - The first gay bar in Dubrovnik should open this season. Although there is no official confirmation yet, one well-known Dubrovnik catering duo decided to make this business move, which is supported by the fact that Dubrovnik is a gay-friendly city. The first gay bar in Dubrovnik should be located in Marojice Kaboge Street, allegedly where there was a shop before. The caterers who intend to open it did not want to comment on anything until the opening was 100% certain, but the citizens were happy to share their opinion with the press, writes Dubrovački vjesnik.  "There were so…

February 8th, 2022 - The dinosaur-themed edutainment park in Istria was nominated in the category Hospitality Architecture The Paleo Park in Mon Perin camp in Bale, Istria was nominated for the 2022 Building of the Year award by ArchDaily, world’s biggest architecture website. It’s nominated in the category Hospitality Architecture, with the list of five finalists to be announced tomorrow, reports Glas Istre / Robert Frank. The Paleo Park is a blend of a themed amusement water park and an educational and research platform, designed and built to complement and highlight the archaeological site located near Bale. Designed by the…

February 8th, 2022 - Krk island is on its way to officially join the list of some five hundred European cities and municipalities that have implemented the international Zero Waste strategy The management of Ponikve, the main utility company on Krk island, recently met with representatives of Zelena akcija (Green Action), an organisation which is working on implementation of the zero waste strategy in Croatia. Experts of Zelena akcija analysed the waste management system of Krk island and considered which tasks Krk has yet to fulfill in order to position and brand itself as the first zero waste island in…

ZAGREB, 8 Feb 2022 - The secondary school of electrical engineering in Varaždin and the secondary school in Maruševec are two schools in Varaždin County, among 12 in Croatia, which have been awarded Erasmus accreditation for vocational education and training by the Agency for Mobility and EU programmes. Miroslav Huđek, the head of the Varaždin County Department for Education, told a press conference on Tuesday that 26 vocational schools from throughout Croatia have applied and 12 have been granted accreditation. Huđek said that the two accredited schools means that 40 per cent of vocational schools in Varaždin County have a stable…

February 8, 2022 - So, how does Croatian bureaucracy for non-EU nationals look? Lyn Church shares her first-hand experience.  Croatian bureaucracy is notorious for being a frustrating, anxiety-riddled process, where your confidence from reading countless “how-to” guides evaporates the moment you come face-to-face with any government official. I'm sharing 5 pieces of advice that I wish someone had shared with me when we embarked on this journey. Rather than a definitive “guide-to-something”, I hope it helps you better understand what you can come to expect as a 3rd country national when you undertake a bureaucratic process in Croatia. 1. Bureaucracy…