Made in Croatia

The stem revolution for Croatian schools has begun for children in grades 1-4! Zagreb, November 6, 2018 - Elementary schools across the whole of Croatia as can apply for participation in the new STEM Revolution – Grades 1- 4 project. Those participating will have the opportunity to teach their youngest pupils digital literacy competencies and learn programming using micro:bits. The project was presented by Nenad Bakic, the President of the Institute for Youth Development and Innovation (IRIM). During the last year, project STEM revolution introduced programming into the wider education system, with a donation of 25,000 micro:bit microcomputers into 1000 institutions. In cooperation with the Ministry…

Croatian inventors have won four gold, three silver and three bronze medals at the IENA 2018 international exhibition held in Nuremberg, Germany, reports Jutarnji List on November 5, 2018. The gold medal in the team category was won by Dorian Crnoja from the “Faust Vrančić” Technical High School, under the mentorship of Mladen Marušić, for his innovation “Charging a smartphone with static electricity of the human body”. In the category of individual inventors, the gold medal went to Ervin Matić's innovation “Apparatus for cleaning and maintaining pillars”, which also received a special recognition presented by the KIPA, the Korean Association…

ZAGREB, November 2, 2018 - A two-day exhibition of traditional Croatian cheeses began in Zagreb on Friday, and over 290 types of the dairy product were put on display at the "International" hotel today, while they will be exhibited in the city's main square on Saturday. The fourth edition of the festival called "SirCroFest" was organised by the association of small dairies of Croatia and the Croatian agricultural and forestry consulting service with the aim of promoting traditional cheeses and family-run farms and dairies in the country, The chairwoman of the association of small cheese-makers in Zagreb County said that…

The Klik Par company opened a factory for the production of oak barrels for the wine industry in Kutina, and the initial value of the Italian investment is 1.5 million euro, reports Agrobiz.hr on November 2, 2018. “Our investment in Kutina amounts to 1.5 million euro this year. We will reach the same level of investment in the next year and in 2020 as well. As a leader in this sector, we will thus ensure a steady growth of production, so we will soon double the number of workers from the current 11,” said managing director Piero Garbellotto at the…

Lamb from Lika is the 20th Croatian product to be protected by the EU.

The very name Chiavalon brings a smile to my face.  Every time.  As I write these words on October 28, 2018, I realise from my diary that it is almost  a year to the day since I met arguably the happiest man in all Croatia, working with a product which industry experts have judged to be not only organic healthiness personified, but among the top 15 olive oils in the whole world.  About this time last year, I was fortunate enough to meet the olive oil phenomenon that is Chiavalon, a small Istrian family business which is getting larger by…

Small family farms join into the first short supply chain in Croatia and avoid the middlemen for selling Croatian goods. 

At its peak back in 1990, the company had 250 employees and an annual turnover of more than 250 million kuna.

Prosciuttos from Croatia presented at one of the largest international food fairs.

Osmi Povjerenik will be screened in Los Angeles next month!