Due to collective vacation at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek, Office of Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship will be closed from July 26 to August 24, 2008. GPE wishes pleasant summer holidays to all professors, students, business associates and friends.

Harvard professor Porter has received the first Lifetime Achievement Award in Economic Development from the U.S. Department of Commerce. As their partner institution, we have received this news directly from Harvard Business School. Namely, Porter’s “Microeconomics of Competitiveness” course is also part of our program under the title “Competitiveness”. Thus we belong to a group of 80 institutions throughout the world that teach this course in partnership with Harvard Business School. Several of our professors have attended training for execution of the course at the Harvard Business School: Slavica Singer, PhD and Sanja Pfeifer, PhD in 2003, and Sunčica Oberman Peterka PhD and Mirela Alpeza, MSc in 2006.

Ongoing are final preparations for the launch of Doctoral Program in Entrepreneurship, start of which is foreseen for the end of 2008. This doctoral program is a mutual program of J.J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship, Turku University from Finland, Klagenfurt University from Austria, University of Maribor from Slovenia and Durham University from England.

Program is the result of a two-year TEMPUS program, financed by the EU, and it came to existence based on experience and knowledge in studying entrepreneurship by these institutions, which are leaders in the field in their countries, as well as best world practices.

Through this program doctoral students will obtain knowledge and self-confidence that will allow them academic development competitive in the EU.
Curriculum of doctoral program is supported by a top of the line virtual learning platform, developed in collaboration with Microsoft, also one of the partners in the Tempus project.
If you are interested in becoming a part of the 1st class of Doctoral Program in Entrepreneurship, apply today!

All relevant information is available at +385 31 224 426 or suncica@efos.hr.

Within the fifth anniversary of its work, Alumni Association of Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship invites all its members to Associations’ regular and electoral assembly. Assembly will be held on Friday, July 11, 2008, at Galija boat restaurant in Osijek.

On July 03, 2008, at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek, round table “Development of Science Parks in Osijek and Maribor”, within the “Conceptual Framework for Establishment of Science Parks in Maribor and Osijek” project was held. At the round table, representatives of local governments, business sector and the university talked about the importance of science parks for connecting research capacities, business sector and local governments with the aim of innovative development of Eastern Croatia. Project “Conceptual Framework for Establishment of Science Parks in Maribor and Osijek” is co-financed by the European Union, and is implemented by Faculty of Economics within the Community Initiative INTERREG III A, Neighbourhood Programme Slovenia-Hungary-Croatia. Find out more about the project at: www.scipark-osijek.org.