Academic Courses Programs in Croatia 2025

The Culinary Arts program is ideal for students planning a professional career in the culinary industry or considering a career change. During this three-month course, students gain a comprehensive understanding of cooking methods and techniques used in the French and Italian cuisines, and a deeper understanding of the hospitality industry and tourism standards, food hygiene, restaurant management, wines, beer production, and kitchen ecology. The course is hands-on, and students spend 80% of class time in the kitchen preparing a la carte dishes. At the end of the program, students can choose to intern in successful restaurants or hotels.

Step into the captivating world of game design and unlock your potential to create thrilling gaming experiences. This module is designed to equip students with the fundamental concepts of game design, regardless of the medium they choose to explore. Dive deep into the role of a game designer and unravel the essence of what makes a game truly engaging.

The Professional Pastry and Confections program is designed to give students a firm foundation and teach them the techniques needed to start working as a pastry chef. Small groups allow our teaching chefs to give students one-on-one attention and individual feedback. Students spend 80% of the class time in the practicum. The program covers bakery and confectionery products, sweet and savory pastries, as well as basic Italian and French pastries. In addition, students are introduced to wine pairing and restaurant management.

Embark on a transformative journey through Creativity and storytelling for Marketers. This unique module equips you with essential skills to craft captivating content that resonates with audiences and amplifies brand messaging.

This module presents a vital core for all hardcore programmers, with very strong prerequisites and excellent knowledge of Java and C# programming languages. Therefore, upon successful completion of the module, the students will, with no exception, witness their own quantum leap in knowledge, learning both the Kotlin programming language and Android mobile architecture. The main purpose and aim of this module is proper and thorough introduction to mobile application development. Because of the evergrowing popularity, widespread usage, variety of target devices and its opensource nature, the platform is chosen to be Android, and the programming language is Kotlin. Android ecosystem consists of 4 pillars that students must become very accustomed to – Activity, Service, Broadcast Receiver and Content Provider. With proper knowledge of the ecosystem, using mobile oriented libraries and following the latest development standards, along with the advanced and sophisticated usage of Kotlin, the students are capable to deliver a highly scalable project that can serve as a personal framework for developing Android applications.

Artificial intelligence has been a fascinating concept for more than a decade, and we are finally getting close to making AI a reality. We are currently witnessing significant innovations in various technologies that all relate to the influence of AI. This drives demand for understanding not only how to use and implement such technologies but also how the basic concepts of selected components really work. In order to fully understand how AI will impact the future of work, this module seeks to explore the core features of AI technologies from a business and user perspective. You will learn why the social aspect of AI is important and how complex it is to create an efficient one. Be prepared to use your innovation skills and elevate them in practice. Once you grasp the key AI complexity and enabling components, we will start a discussion on how to successfully invoke AI in our lives. The prototyping process will begin with a simple question: Can you create a simple but efficient AI solution scenario by covering “all important” aspects? Selecting the appropriate or at least the most adoptable technology model can be crucial to achieve success. You will get to play with solutions using prepared scenarios and create your own with specific target customer/ industry in mind. Once you master experimenting, you will push your imagination to its limits and create your own story, share it and improve your AI skills in a group. Finally, you will be able to use this skill to learn how to navigate through business quickly and efficiently. Then we will be ready to take a look into the future. What can happen in a year or so? How will these cases evolve and how fast will our current skills become obsolete? Teamwork and individual pitches will be presented for mentor and peer evaluation. Exciting times are ahead, let this module reveal the benefits and the risks of AI and invoke the skills you will need in the future.

Cyber Security is an ever-evolving field with opportunities waiting for everyone with the interest to learn more and develop their skills in this interesting and demanding topic. This module will show the basic steps most of the hackers would go through while compromising the victim’s computers and it will define some interesting known and less known attack vectors and protections against them.

Storytelling skills are among the most important skills today - the skills we all should practice. When combined with data, stories can become powerful tools in the digital industry. Our society is based on stories that are the foundation of the way we communicate, live and dream. In the introduction to the module, a short overview of storytelling technology development will be presented with special focus on education/government/business (learning-by-doing) and data science, as well as advanced visualization. We will describe and conduct a characteristic data science project and demonstrate techniques related to the big data infrastructure, and the way we use mathematical rules for various activities across different phases of these projects. During module labs, we will master the use of data and advanced visualization tools combined with large data sets to gain content and the way we can tell a story with the help of this content. The module aims to teach you how to think out of the box and create interesting and relevant stories using data. In order to do that you will master different techniques of visualization and exploratory data analysis. You will acquire the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in the field of data science, characterized by large volumes of data. You will also be introduced to a variety of tools for visualization and exploratory data analysis

Would you like to spend four weeks at the No. 1 private higher education institution in Croatia learning about the latest digital trends in an international environment with people from around the world? Spend July at Algebra and master innovative digital skills wanted by every tech industry giant!

The Summer School course “EU Regional Policy - Reality Check and Perspective" offers a unique opportunity to learn and discuss structures, actors, processes, and challenges of regional and urban development and management in dialogue with international academic experts and practitioners.

In a world of growing business dynamics and competitiveness, a demand for successful project management is increasing. This applies to all organisations that base their strategy and other business and development plans on growth and development projects.

The course explores the most recent and exciting work in the field of regional development. Both theoretical and empirical aspects will be covered, with a precise focus on regional policy that improves economic well-being in different regions.

After a dozen of successful Schools, the Faculty of Economics and Business in Rijeka is organizing the International Summer School - «International Environment and European Integration», which will be held from July 4 to July 17, 2022, in Rijeka.