Made in Croatia

March 13, 2020 - PR agency IMC launches Budi(KO)odgovoran, a new information portal to coordinate information in the fight against coronavirus. Aware of its responsibility, but also the potential that Croatian society, its companies and individuals indisputably have, IMC launched an initiative #Budikoodgovoran. The initiative was launched with the aim of fostering responsible behavior of citizens and legal persons of the Republic of Croatia and togetherness in the fight against coronavirus as another quality solution for combating the further spread of the virus. Indeed, while the Government of the Republic of Croatia, the National Crisis Command and other competent institutions…

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marta Duic writes on the 12th of March, 2020, since the opening of the Grif Zagreb microbrewery in 2017, which is equipped with one of the most up-to-date brewing equipment, major investments have primarily focused on people, their skills and their knowledge. Grif, a microbrewery in Zagreb that has so far launched nine different types of beer, has introduced yet another novelty - Green Grif, on the occasion of the St. Patrick's Day. The specificity of this beer lies precisely in its obscure colour, obtained using the natural colours of spirulina algae. Considering that Grif is a microbrewery…

March 12, 2020 - TCN catches up with Liza Belozerova from Google.org to discuss the exciting partner with IRIM bringing digital hope and change to Croatia's libraries. With so much bad news around in Croatia and elsewhere, it is sometimes hard to see the positives. But if you look a little deeper than the surface negativity in Croatia, there are plenty of very exciting things going on.  Among them is the STEM revolution, which is being spearheaded by leading Croatian entrepreneur, Nenad Bakic. Along with Mate Rimac, Bakic was named by the Financial Times as one of Europe's top 100…

March 10, 2020 – VIDEO: BBC/Top Gear tests Rimac C_Two prototype which can go from 0 to 100 kph in under two seconds! Tom Ford/Top Gear reviewed the Rimac electric hypercar prototype, with the 1.94 million EURO price tag, on March 10, 2020. Rimac C_Two: Here are the Numbers The technical tour-de-force that can reach 160 kph in 4.3 seconds. It will manage some 550 kilometers on a charge (WLTP) and be able to charge to 80 per cent in just half an hour on a fast charger. More pertinently, it will have four-wheel drive and insanely complicated torque…

March 9, 2020 - The team behind the LIFE Lynx project, aiming to stabilise the population of lynx in the Alps and the Dinaric Alps, posted a video of a Croatian lynx walking near a road, which is an unusual sight as the wild cats don't really like people and are usually trying to get as far away from them as possible. The video was taken by Alen Brkić from Gorski Kotar, and it was recorded near Sopač, a small village in Gorski Kotar, near the junction from Lujzijana towards Mrkopalj. The video is of quite high quality and quite…

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 8th of March, 2020, Boran and Andrej Loncaric and Ivica Skender from GDi, a Croatian company with thirty valuable years of experience, work in the field of modern geoinformatics solutions. As coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread around the world with an apparent ease, it is most visible for people interested in tracking where the virus has penetrated on so-called online ''dashboards'', of which there are currently several. One of the most relevant dashboards in terms of data sources is that of the Johns Hopkins University, where the coronavirus location data is updated as soon…

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Bernard Ivezic writes on the 7th of March, 2020, the success of the Miret startup via the Kickstarter campaign is significant if one knows that in one single day, it reached the level of turnover serious players and companies in that industry enjoy, with one third of its sales coming from exports. It is a well known fact that startups in Croatia, as well as their respective successes, are mostly related to technological products, therefore it came as somewhat of a surprise when the Croatian Miret startup did things differently. It was on Kickstarter, the globally dominant crowdfunding platform,…

As Novac/Barbara Ban writes on the 6th of March, 2020, behind the name T \ 'n \' D Web hides a young maths and computer science duo - Toni Borina and Damir Numic-Mesa, Croatian students. These two outstanding graduates from Pula High School facilitated the easier work of their professors, as well as their colleagues at the school, with their project, marking another incredible piece of innovation made in Croatia. Working together with the mentorship of Professor Nikola Vujacic, in a mere two months, the students created a web application within the project "School in the Palm of your Hand", which…

As Novac/Filip Pavic writes on the 5th of March, 2020, Filipa Burul, a Croatian agronomist and 23-year-old student at the Faculty of Agriculture in Zagreb, is working on the CroCot mobile application, which is a "weed specialist". The application is one that will allow farmers, through their smartphones, to identify the type of weeds growing among their crops and get information on how to control them with herbicide. With this idea, this young Croatian agronomist applied for the Student DIGI Award, organised by Jutarnji list, which selects the best young innovator and managed to enter into the final round of…

March 3, 2020 - TCN meets the modern masters of Trogir in our latest series. Next up, traditional a cappella singing by Klapa Trogir. In November 2019, Trogir unveiled a new branding strategy, visual identity, and promotional video, becoming the first coastal destination in Croatia to use branding at such a serious and professional level. The result of the creative process is the slogan “Marked by Masters”, influenced by the continuity of life in Trogir for over 3600 years, the great masters who have operated in Trogir since the Middle Ages, and the indelible traces that these masters leave. …