Made in Croatia
Wednesday, 19 May 2021
Karlovac Company Producing Innovative Bricks for Prefabricated Walls
May the 19th, 2021 - One Karlovac company from Vojnic is engaged in the innovative creation of prefabricated construction elements, which comes as a pleasant piece of information following the earthquakes which struck Zagreb and Sisak-Moslavina in March and December 2020. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Darko Bicak writes, although the construction sector in the modern economy is always one of the carriers of overall development, for example in Germany it constantly accounts for 10 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), in Croatia it is now additionally relevant due to the earthquakes of 2020 and the need for the comprehensive reconstruction of both…
Tuesday, 18 May 2021
Croatian CityGreens Farming Offers Solution to Land Fertility Issues
May the 18th, 2021 - The Croatian company CityGreens Farming has offered an innovative solution to an issue many in the agriculture sector suffer, which is a lack of fertile land. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Darko Bicak writes, although it might sound like a script from science fiction films to most, the technology of growing food indoors without fertile land is already a reality today, and the Croatian company CityGreens Farming from Zagreb is also contributing to its development. The leading people of that aforementioned company, Josip Ceovic and Filip Mijatovic, explained that they have developed an innovative system for aeroponic plant…
Tuesday, 18 May 2021
Croatian Kick Boxers Develop Sensor System for Athletes' Training
May the 18th, 2021 - In this day and age, top sport can't exist without the aid of some of the best technology, and several Croatian kick boxers are showcasing their skills outside of the ring by developing an innovative sensor system for the training of athletes. As Filip Pavic/Novac writes, the above, that today's top sport can't exist without the help of tech is the thought of several leading young men, top athletes and entrepreneurs, from the Zagreb sports and technology startup Sportreact. The group of Croatian kick boxers devised a sensor system for the training and developing of…
Monday, 17 May 2021
Green Energy Pal: FER Students Developing Personal Energy Consultant
May the 17th, 2021 - A talented team of innovative Croatian students from Zagreb's FER are jointly developing Green Energy Pal, which works as a personal energy consultant to its users. As Novac/Bernard Ivezic writes, Green Energy Pal is a student startup which is busy developing the aforementioned service, which isn't new but was expensive and as such has been very limited to only large companies until now. ''We look at electricity almost mechanically. There are sockets, plugs, bulb sockets, switches, timers, extension cords... all of that is mechanical. However, with the advent of smart lamps, smart thermostats, and even…
Saturday, 15 May 2021
Croatian Teenagers Win Gold and Silver Medals at European Olympiad of Experimental Science
May 15, 2021 – Croatian students in the category of under 17 years of age, participated in the European Olympiad of Experimental Science. Not only that, but they returned as winners. Young Croatian competitors at the European Olympiad of Experimental Science did not disappoint. Displaying great skill in handling experiments, data compiling, and problem-solving, Croatian teams managed to win gold and silver medals. Tportal reports this year's competition ran from May 9th to May 14th. The host city this year was going to be the Hungarian city of Szeged. Unfortunately, the COVID pandemic forced the organisers to change the format…
Saturday, 15 May 2021
Vodnjan Company Infobip Continues on Upward Trajectory with Good Results
May the 15th, 2021 - The Vodnjan company infobip continues to go from strength to strength and showcase just what a Croatian enterprise can do, even in a climate which still makes doing business more difficult than it should be. As Novac/Bernard Ivezic writes, Twilio has 4,500 employees, generates 1.76 billion US dollars in revenue annually and has a market value of 51.85 billion dollars. It is a company that the founders of the Vodnjan company Infobip - Silvio Kutic, Izabel Jelenic and Roberto Kutic - most often point out as their main competitor. By comparison, Infobip has about 3,000 employees,…
Saturday, 15 May 2021
Croatian Elderflower Juice from Podravina Family Wins Awards in London
May the 15th, 2021 - Croatian elderflower juice produced by a family business from Legrad in Podravina has been earning awards and recognition in London for years now. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marta Duic writes, the Croatian elderflower juice from Podravina has been receiving awards from London at the Great Taste competition for some time now. The story of the Kapronca business begins back in 2012 when the family opened the Pavlic Senka family farm and entered the market with elderflower syrup made according to an old family recipe. ''After many blind tastings and small adjustments of my mother's recipe, we decided…
Friday, 14 May 2021
Ruđer Bošković Institute (IRB) Open Doors in 2021: Virtual Event To Present Science to Public in May
May 15, 2021 -The Ruđer Bošković Institute of Science (IRB), the top science facility in Croatia, is hosting a public event. Despite the event being online, the educational and entertaining side of the 17-year-old manifestation won't go amiss. With the pandemic still causing havoc, events happen either with a limited number of visitors or in the virtual world. And with Ruđer Bošković Science Institute (IRB) being both socially responsible and brilliant in using modern technologies in the best possible matter - chose the latter. The doors of the Ruđer Bošković Science Insitute, from May 18th until May 22nd, unlike previous years,…
Friday, 14 May 2021
OPG Hazic Launches First Wine Camp in Name of Rural Tourism
May the 14th, 2021 - The very first wine camp owned and run by OPG Hazic, a Croatian family farm, is set to give rural tourism a kickstart in beautiful yet frequently overlooked continental Croatia. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Ivan Tominac writes, OPG Hazic in Sveti Martin na Muri in Medjimurje is the first to be known as a wine park in all of the Republic of Croatia. Presented last weekend, it offers twelve pitches for campers and eight wooden mobile homes that will be available as of early July this year, and is built to the highest environmental standards with a…
Thursday, 13 May 2021
Croatian European Research Council (ERC) Fund Receiver: Meet Brilliant Dr. Vernesa Smolčić
May 13, 2021 - With Croatian scientists' reputation on the rise on the world stage, dr. Vernessa Smolčić is now the Croatian European Research Council (ERC) Fund Receiver. Croatian scientists continue to impact the European science scene. As the Faculty of Science (PMF) at the University of Zagreb reports on its website, their scientist and professor, dr. Vernesa Smolčić is one of the 10,000 receivers of non-returnable funds by the European Research Council (ERC). As PMF states, the excellence of research work is the only criteria to get these funds. „Scientists compete in a very strong international competition in which the…
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
Craft Brewery Varionica Wins 3 Beer Oscars at European Beer Challenge
May 12th, 2021 - The European Beer Challenge, or the beer Oscars as connoisseurs call it, is the most important and prestigious European beer competition that brings together the most elite European wholesale beer buyers who are also the judges at the competition itself. For the second year in a row, Craft Brewery Varionica went home with 3 Oscars. With extremely rigorous criteria, Varionica was awarded four gold medals at this year's beer Oscar. Among thousands of beer samples from 39 countries, double gold was won by Deep Dive IPA, while single gold went to Neon Stout and Siesta Session IPA.…
