The 2019/20 academic year will see enrolment opportunities opened to one candidate for each of the pre-graduate and graduate university studies of history, sociology, communicology, psychology and nursing.
An agreement was inked on the 22nd of March between the Croatian Catholic University and the State Office for Croats Abroad, signed by the university’s rector Željko Tanjić and state secretary Zvonko Milas, that outlines the details of collaboration between the two institutions that aims to encourage the research of the specific cultural and religious heritage and modern day life among the Croatia diaspora communities, the ethnic Croatian minority enclaves in neighbouring European countries and the Croatian component of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the study of migration trends.
The deal also covers the development of existing and new programmes of study that will contribute to the integration and strengthening of unity among homeland Croatians and ethnic Croats abroad, creating new and supporting existing student exchange programmes, creating and supporting research and specialist projects and adopting a special enrolment quota aimed at indigenous ethnic Croatian enclaves in other European countries and diaspora communities abroad.
The 2019/20 academic year will see enrolment opportunities opened to one candidate for each of the pre-graduate and graduate university studies of history, sociology, communicology, psychology and nursing.
Croatian Catholic University rector Željko Tanjić said he was happy to see this agreement signed and underlined the importance of this collaboration with the State Office for Croats Abroad.
“We had excellent collaboration with the State Office for a symposium staged last year on demographic shifts and the cultural heritage of Croats in Boka Kotorska. This year we are continuing a similar collaborative effort with a symposium on Croats in Vojvodina. This agreement will bring our collaborative efforts to a higher level as we are currently in the process of creating new study programmes that focus on the topic of the integration of homeland and diaspora Croats, and we will open the doors to our university to young ethnic Croatians abroad and invite them to study at the Croatian Catholic University. A decision to study in Croatia could be a first step to settling in the ancestral homeland. We are delighted that the State Office for Croats Abroad has chosen us as a partner in what is a worthy mission to advance and strengthen our homeland on the long term,” said rector Tanjić. (HKM)