Made in Croatia

October 2, 2020 - Ivana Kramer from Vukovar became Croatia's first animal rights lawyer after graduating from the Faculty Of Law in Osijek Ivana Kramer from Vukovar has become Croatia's first animal rights lawyer. She did so after graduating from the Faculty Of Law in Osijek, having received her diploma on September 23. The Faculty Of Law in Osijek is the only one in Croatia that has an elective course in animal rights. In a recent interview with Vecernji List's Suzana Lepan Štefančić, Ivana explained that her desire to become Croatia's first animal rights lawyer stemmed from always having been…

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Darko Bicak writes on the 1st of October, 2020, although the technology of destroying viruses and bacteria with UV light has been used for a long time now, the innovation of the Sibenik company UVready could lead to its wider application. It is, so to speak, a “coronavirus company” that emerged in March due to the spread of the pandemic by merging three Sibenik companies from the PIN Business Incubator in that Dalmatian city into a single joint project. The goal, the owners of the three Sibenik companies explain, was to contribute to the fight against the spread…

September 30, 2020 - The user experience of official Croatian websites for non-Croatian speakers can be very frustrating. So who is taking its foreign visitors seriously? One of the realities about being a blogger in Croatia and writing for TCN is that I have spent far more time than is healthy over the last decade on official Croatian websites in search of information that simply was not available in English - and often, even in Croatian.  Official Croatian websites are an interesting sub-species, and in many ways they give a great insight into the mentality and mindset of the authority…

September 29, 2020 – One surprised shopper couldn't help but laugh and photograph as telltale signs of Christmas in Croatia appeared this week over her local supermarket As long had been suspected by city residents, it has been officially announced that Zagreb's world-famous Advent celebrations will this year go ahead. Replanned under epidemiological guidelines, kućice (small vending houses), stages and spectacular lights will once again bring the sights, scents, sounds, tastes and cheer of the festive season to the capital this December.Advent in Zagreb © Julien Duval In the era of Coronavirus, you might be able to ask people to…

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Lucija Spiljak writes on the 27th of September, 2020, this year during the lockdown, after 10,000 hours, 24 months of hard work and 300,000 euros of investment, the Zagreb software company Q Agency presented the Jenz mobile app, a Croatian social network where company employees can post official and entertainment content and connect better. ''As the number of employees in the agency grew and expanded rapidly, we wanted to improve communication and strengthen the culture within and among the teams. Jenz is an application that combines several communication and feedback tools. At first it looks like Instagram, full…

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Lucija Spiljak writes on the 26th of September, 2020, Maja Bosanac, the owner of Eventful and the first EEE (Ecology, Ethics and Efficiency) Event Manager in Croatia, will launch Croatia's first complete online event platform later this year. The goal of Eventful's brand new online platform is to provide an adequate replacement for the organisers of events who, in this situation, have no alternative for their planned events, but also for those events that they didn't even start working on due to the arrival of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Eventful platform will have space for keynote speakers…

The new, innovative PickJobs recruitment platform has been launched by young Croatian IT experts that connects employers and employees in a simple and quick way, with published ads currently visible in eleven countries. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 21st of September, 2020, access to the new PickJobs platform is completely free for both employees and employers, and the ads are simultaneously visible to users from Croatia, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Northern Macedonia, Ukraine, Albania and Kosovo. The platform contains an extensive database of employers who have recognised the wide range of opportunities and benefits offered…

September the 21st, 2020 - What happens when a Dutchman and a Dalmatian walk into a room? No, it isn't one of those age old jokes with a bad pun, but the reality behind the CROP Croatia (Hrvatska) story, involving Jerko Trogrlic and Jan de Jong, a Dutch entrepreneur who is already very well known. "A Dalmatian and a Dutchman are going to plant tomatoes! Nope, it's not a joke", is the beginning of Jerko Trogrlic's announcement, who, along with his partner Jan de Jong, rolled out a story that intrigued the media and numerous local governments throughout Croatia, not…

September 20, 2020 - The giant red star art installation was today placed on a skyscraper, marking the day the Anti-fascist State Council for the National Liberation of Croatia returned Rijeka to its rightful place, as a city of Croatia A giant red star today appeared over the skyline in the coastal city of Rijeka. Made from shards of bright red glass, the art installation sparkled in the late summer sun as it peered over the edge of a prominent city centre building. The installation is titled Monument to Red Rijeka - a self-defense monument and is by artist Nemanja…

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 19th of September, 2020, the story of the Croatian company Nanobit and its two founders, Alan Sumina and Zoran Vucinic, can be ranked among the most successful Croatian stories in the last five years. It started, as is often the case with IT startups - "romantically", without any capital, with only two computers, but with the idea and the will to gain global success in a very competitive industry - the mobile game industry. The Croatian company Nanobit's founders have been building the company for a full 12 years now and have grown to…