Projects and Grants
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Current projects
Full project title: Enhancing RIT Croatia's Capacity for Co-op, Academic and Career Development of Students
Acronym: R.I.T.A.
Project code: SF.2.4.06.08.0024
Call for proposals: SF.2.4.06.08 – "Improving Employability through Co-op Placements in Higher Education"
Fund: European Social Fund Plus (ESF+)
Programme: Effective Human Resources 2021–2027
Beneficiary: RIT Croatia
The R.I.T.A. project is implemented by RIT Croatia with the aim of improving the quality and scope of student co-op placements, modernizing the co-op evaluation process, strengthening career counseling, and building an active alumni community. Special emphasis is placed on digitalization — the introduction of new IT tools that will enable students and employers to manage co-op placements faster, more easily, and more transparently.
The main objective of the project is to increase the employability of RIT Croatia students through:
- improving the quality and scope of co-op placements with employers,
- modernizing and digitalizing the co-op evaluation process,
- strengthening career counseling and student support,
- building and activating an alumni community,
- introducing digital tools connecting students, employers, and alumni.
- A1 – Implementation of co-op placements with employers
- A2 – Evaluation of completed co-op placements
- A3 – Career counseling and alumni community
- A4 – Capacity building and digitalization (development of 2 new IT modules)
- KV – Communication and visibility
- 300 completed co-op placements with ECTS credits awarded
- 12 comprehensive co-op placement evaluations
- 5 career workshops and events
- 7 alumni events
- 2 new digital IT modules
- Expansion of the employer partner network by at least 5 new partners
Through the R.I.T.A. project, RIT Croatia students gain access to new opportunities and a modernized support system. The centerpiece is a new digital IT module that, for the first time, brings together in one place a complete overview of open job and co-op vacancies, a database of partner employers with contact details, and an overview of upcoming conferences and workshops — along with significantly faster application, tracking, and evaluation of co-op placements.
Through the R.I.T.A. project, we are improving the entire co-op placement process by introducing new digital tools and strengthening cooperation with employers and alumni, so that your path from studies to a successful career is faster, simpler, and better connected to the labor market.
| Implementation period | 36 months (July 1, 2026 – July 1, 2029) |
| Total project’s value | EUR 160,953.80 |
| European Union grant | EUR 157,734.71 (98%) |
| Beneficiary's own contribution | EUR 3,219.09 (2%) |
| Fund | European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) |
Co-funded by the European Union
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Developing Innovative Alliances for Management, Innovation, and Collaboration in European BioEconomy (DINAMIC Danube) (Interreg Danube Region Programme, 2025-2028). RIT Croatia is the Lead Partner (Dr. Martin Žagar, Dr. Kristina Šorić), total budget = €2.4 million
The main idea behind the DINAMIC Danube project is to strengthen small family farms in the Danube Region by providing lifelong learning, peer mentoring, and technological innovation, with a focus on sustainability, gender equality, and rural development, and by creating pilot actions on precision farming, policy recommendations, and a regional support network. RIT Croatia is coordinating 17 institutions from across the Danube Region including Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.
For more information, please visit: https://interreg-danube.eu/projects/dinamic-danube
Cross-Border DIGITal Governance Gateway for Inclusive COASTal Health, Social Services and Barrier- Free Tourism and Mobility in Croatia and Italy (DIGIT2COAST) (Interreg Italy-Croatia, 2026-2027). RIT Croatia is the Lead Partner (Dr. Martin Žagar), total budget = €260.789
Web link: https://www.italy-croatia.eu/web/digit2coast
The project aims to strengthen cross-border digital governance through the co-development and testing of the Care & Go Toolkit, a practical, low-cost, and open-source solution for public authorities to jointly manage data on accessible services. The project directly implements Action CB ICT3, by supporting joint actions to investigate, adapt, and test digital cross-border services that improve administrative cooperation in the critical fields of health, emergency response, and mobility accessibility.
Social Media Leadership Incubator for the Danube Region (SMILE Incubator) (Interreg Danube Region Programme, 2025-2027), RIT Croatia is the project partner (Dr. Martin Žagar, Dr. Jasminka Samardžija), total budget = €1.98 million
The SMILE project will empower youth in rural Danube communities by strengthening their digital communication and leadership skills. The project promotes active citizenship and sustainable democracy through social media engagement and strategic capacity-building by developing leadership training toolkits, policy guidelines, and a Social Media Leadership Incubator. The Lead Partner is the School of Advanced Social Studies (Slovenia) with 20 organizations from all 14 countries in the Danube Region partnering on the project.
Micro-credentials in Digital Health for Ethiopia and Somalia (DigHealth) (Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education (CBHE), 2024-2027). RIT Croatia is the Lead Partner (Dr. Martin Žagar, Dr. Ana Havelka Meštrović, Dr. Alan Mutka), total budget = €400.000
The objective is to enhance healthcare delivery in Ethiopia and Somalia through the development of digital health micro-credentials. The project aims to build academic capacity by training educators, designing new curricula, and implementing digital health courses to support healthcare systems in remote and underserved areas of Ethiopia, and Somalia, with the help of Greek, Belgium, and Croatian partners.
Pan-European Network of Green Deal Agriculture and Forestry Earth Observation Science (PANGEOS) (COST Action CA22136, 2023-2027). RIT Croatia is project partner (Dr. Martin Žagar, Dr. Kristina Šorić)
The objectives set by PANGEOS are developed in the wake of the European Green Deal strategic goals. To support these goals, PANGEOS aims to leverage state-of-the-art remote sensing technologies to advance field phenotyping workflows, precision agriculture/forestry practices and larger-scale operational assessments for a more sustainable management of Europe’s natural resources.
Telemedicine Education Advancement through Microcredentials (TEAM) (2023–2026)
The TEAM project is an international collaborative effort of partners from six European countries: Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece, Ukraine, and Romania. It aims to revolutionize digital health and telemedicine education by developing flexible learning pathways that align with global best practices. It focuses on addressing challenges such as limited digital literacy and aims to bolster cross-sectoral collaboration. The initiative is especially pivotal for countries with urgent healthcare needs. RIT Croatia as a partner on the project is represented by Dr Martin Žagar.