• Education for the 21st century
  

Chair and moderator: Vedran Mornar (vedran.mornar@fer.hr)
Contact: Petar Biljanović (petar.biljanovic@fer.hr)

Invited speakers: Saša Zelenika, Darinko Bago, Gordana Kovačević, Slavko Vidović, Ivan Vidaković, Petar Biljanović

The discussion is intended as a conversation about the (non) compatibility of the educational system and the needs of the economy. There will be presented individual experiences of the people from the practice and also expressed an opinion what needs to be changed in the educational system.

Participants of the formal opening, will be able to ask questions.

7,30 P.M. - 9,30 P.M. Cocktail for patricipants and guests (the beach of Grand hotel Adriatic)

Opatija, with its 170 years long tourist tradition, is the leading seaside resort of the Eastern Adriatic and one of the most famous tourist destinations on the Mediterranean. With its aristocratic architecture and style Opatija has been attracting renowned artists, politicians, kings, scientists, sportsmen as well as business people, bankers, managers for more than 170 years.

Opatija's distinguished visitors were the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph, the German King Wilhelm II, the Swedish Royal couple Oscar and Sophia, the Greek King George, the composers Pietro Mascagni and Giacomo Puccini, the writers James Joyce, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Henry Sienkiewitz, the dancer Isadora Duncan, the well-known physician and scientist Dr. Leopold Schrotter who discovered in 1891 the medicinal benefits of the air in Opatija as a result of the mixture of the Mediterranean and mountain climate.

The tourist offering of Opatija includes a vast number of hotels, excellent restaurants, entertainment venues, art festivals, superb modern and classical music concerts, beaches and swimming pools and is able to provide the perfect response to all demands.

Opatija, the Queen of the Adriatic, is also one of the most prominent congress cities on the Mediterranean, particularly important for its international ICT conventions MIPRO that have been held in Opatija since 1979 gathering more than a thousand participants from more than forty countries. These conventions promote Opatija as the most desirable technological, business, educational and scientific center in Southeast Europe and the European Union in general.

For more details please look at www.opatija.hr/ and www.opatija-tourism.hr/.