Professor Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Ph.D., University of Rijeka Rector, and Prof. Blaženka Divjak, Ph.D., Minister of Science and Education, signed a Program Funding Agreement for academic years 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22. This contract is a step forward towards financing science and education based on the models of good practice in the developed EU countries. Contracts like this represent transparent financing of public higher education institutions that also enable ...

Professor Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Ph.D., University of Rijeka Rector, issued a Tender aimed at promoting the development of scientific-research and artistic work at the University of Rijeka at younger and scientifically weaker profiled UNIRI constituents or their parts ("UNIRI+ Projects"). More detailed information about the Tender can be found 

A public discussion "Vote for Europe, Vote for Science", organized by the University of Rijeka and Universitas Association, was held on Monday, April 8th, 2019, at the Rijeka City Hall.  The participants of the panel discussion were: - Mr. Tomislav Sokol, Ph.D., Croatian Prime Minister's Envoy and candidate of the Croatian Democratic Union for Representative to the European Parliament - Mr. Boris Jokić

SPEAR (Supporting and Implementing Plans for gender Equality in Academia and Research) is a Coordination and Support Action project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Science with and for Society (SwafS) programme. Despite numerous EU-wide projects aimed at improving gender equality (GE) in academia, challenges persist, and GE practitioners and change agents experience fatigue and lack of support structures. SPEAR will initiate institutional change in nine European research performing organizations (RPOs) by implementing gender equality plans.

The 11th BESTPRAC Working Group meeting was held from March 11-12 at the Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia and gathered over 100 people from different European countries.

University of Rijeka is a partner in Erasmus+ Key Action 3 Forward Looking Cooperation Project “Towards a European Framework for Community Engagement in Higher Education” (TEFCE). The specific objective of the TEFCE project is to develop innovative and feasible policy tools at the university and European level for supporting, monitoring and assessing the community engagement of universities. The project has two sub-objectives:

European Researchers’ Nights are public events dedicated to bringing researchers closer to the public. They showcase the diversity of research and highlight the impact of research on our daily lives. The aim of this action is also to motivate young people to embark on research careers. This is the second time for UNIRI to participate in this type of action. In 2013 we had successful application and implementation and that was the reason to join this project in 2018/2019 again. European Researchers´ Night 2018/2019...