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07.10.2024

Successful Welcome Week and Welcome Day for Incoming Students Held at the University of Zagreb

The Central International Relations Office of the University of Zagreb organised its Welcome Week for incoming foreign exchange students in the winter semester of the academic year 2024/2025. Of nearly 500 students, most came to study in Zagreb as part of the European Union’s Erasmus+ mobility programme. The majority of foreign students came from Spain, followed by Germany and France.

The Welcome Week was held from 23 to 27 September 2024. During Welcome Week, the University of Zagreb in its new building hosted academic lectures on cultural shock and acculturation, Croatian religious heritage, education system in Croatia, and Croatian culture and history. In addition, the students enjoyed an organ concert at the church of Saint Mark, performed by Professor Pavao Mašić from the Academy of Music.

Professional sightseeing tours in English language were organised at multiple time sessions presenting the cultural and historical centre of the city of Zagreb. Throughout the week, the students had the opportunity to visit and join guided tours of the Technical Museum Nikola Tesla.

The Welcome Week concluded on 27 September with the Welcome Day, held in the main hall of the new University building. The opening speech for foreign students was given by the Vice-rector for Innovation, Technology Transfer and Cooperation with Economic Sector, Professor Tomislav Josip Mlinarić, PhD. Foreign students were greeted by the head of the Central International Relations Office, dr. phil. Branka Roščić.

The rest of the programme included the presentation of the University in general as well as the options specifically concerning the English-taught classes, held by the incoming student mobility coordinator, Bernard Špoljarić. Furthermore, those interested in studying Croatian as a foreign language were encouraged to consider doing so at the University’s language school Croaticum. Erasmus Student Network Zagreb, an association co-funded by the International Relations Office through the Erasmus+ programme, was presented by the association president, Kyla Willems, who introduced foreign students to the student experience of life in Zagreb and presented the activities that the association will organize for foreign students during the winter semester. For their successful start of the academic year, students received welcome gifts from the University, and all was wrapped up with an informal networking over a snack. Welcome Week and Welcome Day programme are fully financed by resources from the student mobility Erasmus+ Programme.

The whole programme was published in the event announcement available here.

Erasmus+ Programme is a bilateral exchange programme, which also regulates the outgoing mobility of Croatian students wishing to study at one of the partner universities in the European Union as well as outside the EU. The Central International Relations Office manages more than 300 UNIZG students who are to study or do a traineeship abroad in the winter semester of the academic year 2024/2025. The majority of students will attend universities in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Germany, or do professional traineeship under Spanish, German and Dutch employers. All Croatian students received an Erasmus+ scholarship.



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