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Ministry Of Science And Education (Croatia)
The ministry of Science and Education of Croatia ( or MZO) is the ministry in the Government of Croatia which is in charge of primary, secondary and tertiary education, research institutions and sports. However, the fact that both education and sports are governed by one single body had drawn criticism from long time Croatian educators, which have the view of having the Ministry focusing on education alone.2018-19, interviews with R.R., prominent educator in Croatia. List of ministers The ministry in its current form came into existence in 2003 in the Cabinet of Ivo Sanader I, resulting from the merger of the earlier Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education and Sports. Both ministries had been originally formed in 1990, although they had changed forms and names several times during the 1990s. Below are lists of ministers of who headed both portfolios before the 2003 merger. ;Ministers of Science (1990–2003) From 1990 to 1992 the first three ministers he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zagreb
Zagreb ( ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slovenia at an elevation of approximately above mean sea level, above sea level. At the 2021 census, the city itself had a population of 767,131, while the population of Zagreb metropolitan area is 1,086,528. The oldest settlement in the vicinity of the city was the Roman Andautonia, in today's Šćitarjevo. The historical record of the name "Zagreb" dates from 1134, in reference to the foundation of the settlement at Kaptol, Zagreb, Kaptol in 1094. Zagreb became a free royal city in 1242. In 1851, Janko Kamauf became Zagreb's List of mayors of Zagreb, first mayor. Zagreb has special status as a Administrative divisions of Croatia, Croatian administrative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Predrag Å ustar
Predrag Šustar (born 11 March 1970) is a Croatian philosophy professor and politician who served as Minister of Science, Education and Sports in the Cabinet of Tihomir Orešković from 22 January 2016 until 19 October 2016. He is member of the center-right Croatian Democratic Union. Early life and education Predrag Šustar was born 11 March 1970 in Rijeka, where he finished elementary and high school. In 1989, he enrolled in the study of molecular biology at the Biology department of the Zagreb Faculty of Science from which he graduated in biological engineering on April 27, 1994. After graduation, Šustar enrolled in University of Pisa, but transferred in August 1995 to the Philosophy department of the University of Padua from which he graduated in philosophy on December 2, 1999. On January 14, 2000, he began his postgraduate studies on the same university. He gained his PhD on February 13, 2003. Career From September 2 until December 15, 2001, Šustar was visiting scholar a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vedran Mornar
Vedran Mornar (born 29 May 1959) is a Croatian engineer, university professor, former dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing and the full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He formerly served as the Croatian Minister of Science, Education and Sports in the twelfth Government of the Republic of Croatia cabinet of Zoran Milanović from June 2014 to January 2016. Early life, education and career Vedran Mornar was born in Zagreb in 1959, where he finished elementary and high school. In 1981, he graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and gained his PhD in 1990. Since the beginning of 1982, he has been working at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Applied Computing. Since 2003 he is the full-time professor.FER - PROF. DR. SC. VEDRAN MORNAR - ŽIVOTOPIS [Biography(in Croatian) (retrieved 2022-11-01) In the period from 2006 to 2010, he was the dean of the Faculty of Electrical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Željko Jovanović (politician)
Željko Jovanović (born 26 November 1965) is a Croatian politician and physician who served as Ministry of Science, Education and Sports (Croatia), Minister of Science, Education and Sports from 2011 until 2014. He is a member of the center-left Social Democratic Party of Croatia. Early life Jovanović, an ethnic Serbs in Croatia, Serb, was born on 26 November 1965 in Rijeka. He spent his early childhood in Grobnik, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Grobnik, Podhum, Croatia, Podhum and Svilno with his parents Niko and Petra. He enrolled into elementary school after moving to . His brother Slobodan was born in this period. Jovanović's class was the only group in generation which studied Russian as the foreign language in the school. As a child, Jovanović was interested in sports and movies. He particularly liked Otpisani, Gustav (film series), Gustav and Bruce Lee. In 1978, he participated in "Šamac Sarajevo 78" youth work action. Education Jovanović graduated medicine from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragan Primorac
Dragan Primorac (born June 7, 1965) is a Croatian politician, physician, geneticist, and forensic scientist. He served as Minister of Science, Education and Sports in the 9th and 10th government of Croatia under HDZ's Ivo Sanader, and was a presidential candidate in the 2009 and 2024 elections. Early life and career Primorac was born in Banja Luka in SR Bosnia and Herzegovina of SFR Yugoslavia. His family is originally from the region between Ljubuški and Vrgorac. Soon they moved to Split, where Primorac spent his childhood, graduated from elementary and high school. Education Primorac graduated from the University of Zagreb, Split Medical School, in 1991. The same year he emigrated to the United States where he worked several years as a postdoctoral fellow and later also as an instructor at the University of Connecticut Medical School. He defended his doctoral dissertation, entitled "Osteogenesis Imperfecta as a Result of Faulty Processing of Messenger RNA", in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatian Peasant Party
The Croatian Peasant Party (, HSS) is an agrarianism, agrarian List of political parties in Croatia, political party in Croatia founded on 22 December 1904 by Antun Radić, Antun and Stjepan Radić as Croatian Peoples' Peasant Party (HPSS). The Brothers Radić believed that the realization of Croatian statehood was possible within Austria-Hungary, but that it had to be reformed as a Monarchy divided into Trialism in Austria-Hungary, three equal parts – Austria, Hungary and Croatia. After the creation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1918, the Party requested for the Croatian part of the Kingdom to be based on self-determination. This brought them great public support which culminated in 1920 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Constitutional Assembly election, 1920 parliamentary election when HPSS won all 58 seats assigned to Croatia. In 1920, disgruntled with a bad position of Croats in the Kingdom, the party changed its name into Croatian Republican Peasant Party (HRSS) and sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Strugar
Vladimir (, , pre-1918 orthography: ) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, widespread throughout all Slavic nations in different forms and spellings. The earliest record of a person with the name is Vladimir of Bulgaria (). Etymology The Old East Slavic form of the name is Володимѣръ ''VolodimÄ›r'', while the Old Church Slavonic form is ''VladimÄ›r''. According to Max Vasmer, the name is composed of Slavic владь ''vladÄ'' "to rule" and ''*mÄ“ri'' "great", "famous" (related to Gothic element ''mÄ“rs'', ''-mir'', cf. Theode''mir'', Vala''mir''). The modern ( pre-1918) Russian forms Владимиръ and Владиміръ are based on the Church Slavonic one, with the replacement of мѣръ by миръ or міръ resulting from a folk etymological association with миръ "peace" or міръ "world". Max Vasmer, ''Etymological Dictionary of Russian Language'' s.v. "Владимир"starling.rinet.ru [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nansi Ivanišević
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Nansi can refer to: * Nansi Lake, lake in Shandong Province in China * Nansi Richards (1888–1979), Welsh harpist * Nansi District, sometimes spelled Nanxi, a district in Tainan, Taiwan *Nansi Nevins, singer in Sweetwater (band) *Nansi, a variant spelling of mythological spider Anansi Anansi or Ananse ( ; literally translates to ''spider'') is a character in Akan religion and folklore associated with stories, wisdom, knowledge, and trickery, most commonly depicted as a spider. Anansi is a character who reflects the culture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Božidar Pugelnik
''Božidar ( Bulgarian, Macedonian, sr-cyr, Божидар, , sometimes transliterated as Bojidar, or Bozhidar) is a Slavic masculine given name. It means "divine gift", derived from the Slavic elements ''božÄjÄ'' ("divine") and ''darÅ'' ("gift"). The name is a calque of the Greek name Theodoros. Direct cognates of the latter and of Božidar in the (South) Slavic languages include: Teodor, Todor, Tudor, Todo. The feminine form of the name is Božidarka. Notable people with the name Božidar include: * Božidar "Boki" MiloÅ¡ević (1931–2018), Serbian clarinetist * Božidar "BoÅ¡ko" Antić (1944–2007), Bosnian Serb footballer * Bozidar Brazda (born 1972), Canadian artist, writer, and musician * Bozidar Cuk (born 1992), Montenegrin volleyball player * Bozidar Iskrenov (born 1962), Bulgarian footballer * Božidar Adžija (1890–1941), Yugoslav left-wing politician and journalist * Božidar Alić (1954–2020), Croatian actor * Božidar Antunović (born 1991), Serb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesna Girardi-Jurkić
Vesna Girardi-Jurkić (15 January 1944 – 25 August 2012) was a Croatian archeologist and museologist. She formerly served as the Croatian Minister of Education, Culture and Sport in the period between April 1992 and October 1994 in the cabinets of Prime Ministers Franjo Gregurić, Hrvoje Šarinić and Nikica Valentić. She was the first woman to be appointed a minister in a Croatian cabinet since independence. Born in Zagreb in 1944, her family moved to Pula in 1947, where she finished high school. Girardi-Jurkić went on to graduate from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb in 1968, majoring in archeology and English. Between 1969 and 1991 she held various positions at the Archeological Museum of Istria in Pula. In 1992 she was appointed Minister of Education, Culture and Sport and held the post until 1994, when she was named Croatia's Permanent Delegate to UNESCO. In 2001 she briefly returned to the Archeological Museum of Istria befor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlatko Pavletić
Vlatko Pavletić (; 2 December 1930 – 19 September 2007) was a Croatian politician, university professor, literary critic and essayist who served as acting President of Croatia from 1999 to 2000, as well as he served as Speaker of the Croatian Parliament from 1995 to 2000. Pavletić was born in Zagreb, then in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1955, he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb, where he majored in Croatian language and literature. In 1972, he was imprisoned for a year and a half by the communist Yugoslav government as a Croatian nationalist for "attempting to destroy and change the state organization". He earned a doctorate in 1975. Between 1990 and 1992, Pavletić served as Minister of Education under prime ministers Stjepan Mesić, Josip Manolić and Franjo Gregurić. In 1992, he was elected to the Croatian Parliament and was appointed Speaker of the Parliament on 28 November 1995. He held the post until 2000. When President Franjo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
