Country Profile – Croatia

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Organization responsible for education	Role of the organization	Website
Ministry of Science and Education	administrative tasks developing the National Curriculum approving textbooks introducing regulations, standards and other requirements fostering the development of the school system conducting inspections establishing educational institutions supervising legal aspects of educational institutions’ work providing funding and facilities for educational work enabling children, young adults and adults to acquire technical skills and competencies supporting organizations investing in educationrelated to preschool education, primary education and secondary education.It has certain tasks regarding higher education as well.Other relevant tasks: development of science, technology and innovation system application of scientific achievement in certain fields fostering technological development monitoring and establishing scientific co-operations with foreign countries and international organizations.	https://mzo.gov.hr/en
Source: European Commission / EACEA National Policies Platform / Eurydice / Croatia Overview: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-policies/eurydice/content/croatia_en

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Type of schools	Source of funds
The Republic of Croatia’s education system consists of pre-primary education, primary education, secondary education, higher education and adult education.	The funds for public needs in the area of single-structure (primary and lower secondary) education and upper secondary education are provided from: state budget; local and regional government unit budget; founder’s sources if the founder is any other natural or legal person; income from the commercial activity and other designated income; fees paid for special services and activities provided by the institution; donations and other sources in accordance with the law.
Sources:
www.european-agency.org/country-information/croatia/l egislation-and-policy	https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-policies/eurydice/content/early-childhood-and-school-education-funding-14_en

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Year	Expenditure	Primary education	Upper secondary education	Total
2012	Current expenditure	761,0	393,1	1 154,1
	Capital expenditure	13,6	6,8	20,4
	Total	774,6	399,9	1 174,5
	Share of capital expenditure (%)	1,8	1,7	1,7
2013	Current expenditure	726,1	376,1	1 102,2
	Capital expenditure	15,1	8,8	23,9
	Total	741,2	384,8	1 126,0
	Share of capital expenditure (%)	2,0	2,3	2,1
2014	Current expenditure	729,7	381,8	1 111,5
	Capital expenditure	13,8	7,5	21,3
	Total	743,5	389,3	1 132,8
	Share of capital expenditure (%)	1,9	1,9	1,9
Source: Eurostat (online data code: educ_uoe_fini01)

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Directorate for the Public Procurement System belonging to the Ministry of Economy is the central organization for public procurement processes.

Ministry of Finance is responsible for concessions.

Public-Private Partnership Agency: responsible for Public-Private Partnerships.

State Commission for the Supervision of Public Procurement Procedures performs reviews.

Contracting authorities can be:

state bodies
local and regional self-government units
bodies governed by public law (legal entities established for the specific purpose of meeting the needs of general interest)
associations established by on of the above-mentioned bodies
persons which are not contracting authorities but are directly subsidized by contracting authorities by more than 50% of the procurement value
persons operating in the fields of water supply, energy, transport and postal service.

In general the major deciding factor is still the lowest price instead of the economically most advantageous tender.

Number of schools K-12	Number of teachers K-12	Number of students K-12	Number of computers per student K-12
1953^[1]	84.370^[2]	261.430^[3]	0,5^[4]

Year	Amount in (€)	Main pillars of investments	Share of pillars (%)
2015	13.091 Mrd. €		n/a
digital education 2019-2022	216 Mio €	Digital equipment (e.g. white boards, 3d-printers)	n/a
Source: Zielmarktanalyse “Berufliche Aus- und Weiterbildung in Kroatien", www.ixpos.de/IXPOS18/Content/_SharedDocs/Downloads_neu/BMWI-MEP/2019/bmwi-mep-zielmarktanalyse-kroatien-aus-weiterbildung.pdf?v=3