University North in co-operation with the European Commission on April 16, 2019 at 16 :00 (UNIN2-110) within the programme 'Back to University' organized a lecture titled 'What is the European Union and what does it do for me?'. The lecture was held by Vlado Cetl, phD.

Associate Professor Petar Kurečić visited the University of Malta from April 4^th to April 8^th, 2019, performing the ERASMUS+ KA103 teaching mobility for the ongoing academic year. Prof. Kurecic was a guest of the Vice-Rector for International Cooperation and Quality Assurance, Professor Godfrey Baldacchino, one of the leading experts in small state research, with a special focus of his work given to small island states. Professor Baldacchino is also co-head of a UNESCO-funded co-chair established at the University of Malta and Prince Edward Island University (Canada), focused on island studies and sustainability.

Damira Keček, senior lecturer at the University  North, passed her PhD viva on November 20, 2018 (successfully finished her doctoral studies). The tittle of her doctoral thesis  was "Development and Application of the Modified Model of ICT Sector Extraction in the Croatian Economy" and she was supervised by Prof. dr. Marinko Škare and Associate Professor Valter Boljunčić from the University Juraj Dobrila in Pula. This is the first  PhD degree awarded at the University North  as a part  International Joint Doctoral Study International Economic Relations and Management.

We congratulate Damira Kecek on this outstanding achievement!

Koprivnica University Center

On the occasion of the International Festival of Literature Galović's Autumn, which is held this year in Koprivnica from 23-28. October, University of North will host Jeffery Renard Allen, a well-known writer and professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia. Jeffery Renard Allen will hold a lecture on "Distortion: The Other Magical Realism" on Friday, October 26, at 4.30 pm in Koprivnica University Center (Hall A108).

2nd Scientific Encounters in the North with the basic topic of 'Cultural Convergence: Media as Cultural Systems', are sequences of scientific encounters held every two years at the University North. In 2016 (21 and 22 October) the first international scientific conference was organized in the honour of 80th birthday of the academician Milivoj Solar, under the title ‘Language of Literature, Science and Media’. About sixty national and international exhibitors (literary theorists, historians, theatrologists, philosophers, sociologists, ethnologists, media researchers, educational experts, etc.) participated in the work of the first Scientific Encounters in the North in the context of very different, inspirational and innovative themes. In an effort to continue this practice, and to achieve that the north-western region becomes a meeting place for scientists and a nursery garden of new topics in different science fields, the 2nd Scientific Encounters represent a very logical sequence.

Rector of the University North, prof. PhD Marin Milković and Rector of the University of Mostar prof. PhD Zoran Tomić signed an agreement on inter-university cooperation in Mostar on 6 April 2018, thus officially establishing cooperation for the purpose of achieving common interests for the advancement of scientific research, artistic work and teaching process. By signing the Agreement on Inter-University Cooperation, the academic cooperation between the two universities will be promoted and encouraged, primarily through the exchange of teaching staff and students, the exchange of all relevant published publications of both universities, and the exchange of information and coordination of conditions for enrollment in study programs through the implementation of joint study programs.