On 27-29 December 2012 at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek several defenses of scientific master theses were held. The following students of Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship have been awarded the Master of Science title: Zoran Palcer – 1st class of GPE, Edo Musser and Domagoj Soukup – 2nd class, Dragan Špoljarić – 3rd class, Marija Cerančević – 4th class, Hrvoje Škrtić – 5th class, Svjetlana Petrović – 6th class, Mario Brekalo and Petar Leko – 7th class, and Vatroslav Barišić, Gordana Ćorić and Simona Goldstein – 9th class. Sincere congratulations to everyone!

Marian Holienka, doctoral student at Comenius University in Bratislava and GEM Slovakia team member held a guest lecture Within the course Authentic Leadership, taught at the second semester of Graduate Specialist Program in Entrepreneurship. Marian presented a comparison of entrepreneurial activity in Croatia and Slovakia according to the GEM research to students of the fifteenth class of GPE. Presentation was held at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek on November 08, 2012.

Today (october 29, 2012) defence of a Master’s thesis was held at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek. Student of the 4th class of GPE and coordinator of specialist and doctoral studies, Mirta Matešić, sucessfuly defended her thesis entitled “Transformation of Art Project to Entrepreneurial Venture”. Master’s thesis was defended before the committee of professors consisting of Marcel Meler, Ph.D., chairman, Slavica Singer, Ph.D., member and mentor and Sunčica Oberman Peterka, Ph.D., member. We congratulate Mirta and wish her a lot of success in private and professional endeavors!

Last week (October 25-27,2012), lectures from the course Qualitative Methods in Entrepreneurial Researchwere held within the Doctoral study ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATIVENESS. Lectures for the first class of doctoral students were held by Ulla Hytti, Ph.D. from University of Turku, Finland.

Marina Jeger, student of the first class of the Doctoral study ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATIVENESS, on October 25, 2012 at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek presented her research problem and design of research of the topic of doctoral dissertation. Presentation of the topic under the working title “Influence of Effectuation on Development of Entrepreneurial Intention” was held before the committee of professors consisting of Slavica Singer, Ph.D., Sanja Pfeifer, Ph.D. and Suncica Oberman Peterka, Ph.D., doctoral students and teachers.