The programme emphasises the importance of having Croatian language and culture instruction offered within the institutional framework of the Republic of Austria under the same conditions as instruction is offered in other mother languages in Austria.
Cetín is a Croatian born artist who has lived and worked in Canada for over forty years. He has made a donation of eighty of his works – prints, drawings and collages – to the graphic arts collection of the National and University Library, further broadening his oeuvre in the collection. The donated work, created in the period from 1962 to 2015, covers a period and range of work and artistic level that is rarely seen in galleries.
A CD aimed at teaching the Croatian language through songs by musician Franco Ferrera Cvitanović, a member of the Croatian Government’s advisory board on Croatians abroad, was presented at the Estadio Croata club in Santiago de Chile. The CD release was financed with funding provided by the Croatian State Office for Croats Abroad.
The HDZ took two of the available three seats seat aside for Croatians abroad, with the most votes going to the top candidate on the HDZ slate Dr Božo Ljubić and the second candidate on the slate Željko Raguž. The third seat was won by independent candidate Željko Glasnović
The Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography has announced the release of its Croatian Dictionary of Settlements, a modern directory of inhabited settlements and the demonyms (ethnics) and the ktetic (possessive) forms derived from the place names (toponyms)
RTL Croatia World is the first specialised channel dedicated to Croatians living abroad and combines the news, entertainment, children’s content, drama series and documentary reality shows offered via the three main channels broadcast by RTL Hrvatska (RTL, RTL2, RTL Kockica).
Signing ceremonies were staged in Tuzla, Sarajevo and Mostar for 350 scholarships for Croatian nationals of Bosnia-Herzegovina enrolling into universities in the country.
The Croatian Heritage Foundation, in collaboration with prominent theatre director Nina Kleflin, has again this year staged a seminar in July for the heads of theatre and dramatic arts groups active abroad. Fifteen participants made the trip to the island of Galovac/Školjić from a number of European countries.
The exhibition showcases a selection of Šerbu’s oeuvre from all of the periods of his fruitful and many years of creative work. Also presented was a prize for best academic work in the past five years awarded by the University of Mostar for the monograph Viktor Šerbu: A Lyrical Fauvist of Dubrovnik’s Colourism.
The University of Split awarded Mateo Martinic Beros the title of honorary doctor at a ceremony staged at the lecture hall of its school of medicine. The proposal, which came at the initiative of Ms Bezić Filipović, has been supported by the University of Magallanes and Croatian honorary consul in Punta Arenas Rudi Mijač.
