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ZAGREB, 6 Sept 2021 - Croatia has set aside HRK 3.5 million (€467,000) for this year to support projects by Croatian diaspora organizations in 29 overseas and European countries.  Grants will be awarded based on a tender issued by the Central State Office for Croats Abroad. Applications are accepted by 1 October. Diaspora organizations are invited to submit projects of importance to their development, culture, education, science, sports, and tourism, as well as those that contribute to the preservation of the national identity and promote relations between the diaspora and Croatia. One organization can submit not more than two projects…

September 6, 2021 - A new Croatian energy label with more arranged levels of energetic efficiency and a QR code that connects buyers directly to the European Commission database offers more transparency to Croatian buyers. Noted for promoting energy efficiency, particularly within the REPLACE Project, the Energy Institute Hrvoje Požar (EIHP) is also involved in the Label 2020 project. As EIHP reported, since September 1, 2021, a new energy label has been providing more information on the energy efficiency of light source products. The Label 2020 website explains that this new Croatian energy label developed better information for customers to…

ZAGREB, 6 Sept 2021 - About 17% of couples in Croatia are infertile, which means that about 80,000 have problems with natural reproduction, Večernji List daily said on Monday. About 10,000 couples are treated annually and about half don't register the problem in time, says gynecologist Velimir Šimunić, a human reproduction subspecialist and in vitro fertilization (IVF) pioneer at a Zagreb women's hospital, where almost 40 years ago he led a team of experts who achieved the conception and birth of the first IVF baby in Croatia, making it the eighth country in the world where this was done. "Infertility is constantly rising, globally and in…

ZAGREB, 6 Sept 2021 - The Croatian team won seven medals at the online Central European Olympiad in Informatics 2021 that was hosted by Zagreb on 1-5 September. The Croatian team won two golds, one silver, and four bronzes, placing Croatia second in the overall ranking after Poland. One of the Croatian gold medal winners, Dorijan Lendvaj, scored the highest number of points in the overall rankings, becoming the absolute winner of the 28th Central European Olympiad in Informatics. The competition brought together 48 contestants, secondary school students, from Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Italy, Hungary, Germany, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland.…

ZAGREB, 6 Sept 2021 - The new school year 2021-22 begins on Monday for almost 460,000 elementary and secondary school students across Croatia, including about 37,000 first graders, and all will have face-to-face classes. This year again HRK 158 million was earmarked in the state budget for free textbooks for elementary school students. Science and Education Minister Radovan Fuchs said on Sunday that elementary school students in grades five to eight and secondary school students would have to wear masks if the distance between them in classrooms was less than 1.5 to 2 meters. However, masks are mandatory in hallways, outside classrooms, and in…

ZAGREB, 6 Sept 2021 - The new High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Christian Schmidt, said on Sunday Croats were underrepresented in BiH's central institutions and that it was necessary to change the country's electoral law. Željko Komšić is the Croat representative in the state Presidency, but he was elected more by Bosniaks than Croats, and the fact that Croat representative Dragan Čović lost to Komšić shows how complicated the system is, Schmidt said in Neustadt an der Aich, Germany at a conference on BiH's Euro-Atlantic prospects, organized by the German Atlantic Society. Schmidt said BiH's Croat population felt underrepresented in what he said…

ZAGREB, 6 Sept 2021 - In the past 24 hours, 184 coronavirus cases and five deaths have been registered in Croatia, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Monday. Currently, 8,661 persons are self-isolating. To date, 2,597,124 persons have been tested for the virus, including 3,942 in the past 24 hours. Croatia has registered 378,022 coronavirus cases to date, including 8,375 deaths and 365,615 recoveries, of which 578 in the past 24 hours. To date, 42.91% of the total population has been vaccinated against COVID-19, including 51.53% of adults, 48.31% of whom have completed vaccination. For all you need to…

September 6, 2021 - Great news for education in Dalmatia as Times Higher Education rates University of Split the best in Croatia!  In the latest World University Rankings, published on September 2, 2021, the University of Split achieved the best result at the national level. In the world, it was ranked between 1001st and 1200th place, reports Slobodna Dalmacija. Since this type of evaluation was first conducted in 2011, the number of participating higher education institutions has grown from 200 to as many as 1,662, with more than 2,112 institutions submitting ranking data this year, representing over 100 million citations…

September the 6th, 2021 - Vaccinated Croatian communal company workers at one enterprise are set to be handed a 500 kuna award for having shown responsibility towards others by getting the vaccine. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, with the aim of preserving the health of Croatian communal company workers, the director of KD Autotrolej, Alberto Kontus, consulted with his Supervisory Board and all unions operating in the company and made a one-time cash award of 500 kuna possible for all workers who own a EU digital COVID certificate proving their status of vaccination or recovery from COVID-19. As pointed out in…

September 6, 2021 - Enrico Marotti becomes the windsurfing world champion for the second time!  The 2021 World Windsurfing Championships were held last week on the Greek island of Paros. After 5 days of sailing and winds between 12 to 35 knots, Croatian windsurfer Enrico Marotti performed excellently. As a result, he became the 2021 World Champion in windsurfing, making him a double champion in the slalom discipline. "I am very pleased with how I performed the entire regatta. I managed to sail constantly and with quality, which I am very proud of. I am happy that I managed to…