Time: October 14, 2021, at 2 p.m.

Venue: Zoom platform

You can register for the lecture HERE.

Short, clear, simple, feasible, and measurable!

You need a good business plan or strategy, but you have neither the time nor the energy to think for weeks and write something that, despite good ideas, will end up in a drawer after all. You are right!

Most strategic plans are too extensive documents that are impossible to implement because they come down to general recommendations, set too many priorities, are incomprehensible and employees do not know what is expected of them and are so complicated that it is impossible to implement, measure results and correct them from time to time.

But strategic planning is still one of the most useful management tools because it maintains an organization’s focus on what is truly essential to business success.

How to make a plan that is concise, understandable, and feasible?

Strategy on A4 is an effective way to create a strategic plan that is:

• short – on only one page
• clear and simple – it is easy to understand, explain and see the connection between the plan and the activity
• feasible and measurable – each implementation activity has a responsible person, a deadline, and a result indicator.

The process of creating a Strategy on A4 is based on two simple questions: What? and How ?, “What is success?” and “How will we achieve it?”. It also forces us to make difficult decisions: to limit ourselves to describing success in one sentence and choosing a small number of key goals, to determine a list of what we must and will not do, all with the goal of staying focused on those ideas, jobs, and strategies that bring success.

Lecturer:

Boris Golob, M.Sc. ing.- as a business consultant for more than 15 years working with startups, established companies, scientists, and holding lectures and workshops for entrepreneurs in Croatia and abroad. He is an expert evaluator for the EIC Accelerator (SME instrument) program. He specializes in product and service innovation processes and commercialization strategies and is a leading expert on business model innovation in Southeast Europe. Of the 28 Strategyzer certified trainers in the world for the business model canvas, he is one.

On Wednesday, September 22, starting at 2 p.m., 5 EFRI alumni will participate in the “Business Opportunity Panel”.

Venue: broadcast on the Facebook page of the Faculty

Alumni will share with current students, future colleagues in the labor market, their study experience, inclusion in the labor market upon graduation, and share information about business opportunities and open positions offered in the organizations in which they currently work.

By participating in the panel, alumni will have the opportunity to pass on their knowledge and experience to younger colleagues and ultimately help them increase their competitiveness and coping in the business environment.

Panelists:

• Dario Zorić, Rijeka Development Agency Porin
• Aleksandra Ignatoski, Aestus financial consulting d.o.o.
• Tomislav Živković, PricewaterhouseCoopers d.o.o.
• Ljubomir Jelic, Jelić Consulting d.o.o.
• Bruno Fabo, Kompare online d.o.o.

Moderator: Diana Ježina Radovanović, MBA

“Business Opportunity Panel” is held as a part of the EU project “Increasing the employability of students through the improvement of the Career Centre and Development of Professional Practice – CEZAR”, which is carried out by the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Rijeka.

We invite all interested alumni on Thursday, September 16, starting at 2 pm, to an online workshop entitled “Opportunities and possibilities for business development with ESI funds”. The workshop will be held online, via the Zoom application. You can register for the workshop HERE.

EU funds are one of the mechanisms that give entrepreneurs the opportunity to finance their ventures. The process of preparing projects financed from EU funds includes knowledge of the rules and procedures for the successful completion of their own ideas and turning them into quality projects ready to obtain grants. Within the workshop, grants from ESI funds, the content of the Tender (Call for Proposals for Grants) and open and announced EU tenders will be presented.

Program:
1. Grants from ESI Funds
2. European Structural Investment Funds (ESIF)
3. Tender (Call for project proposals for the award of grants)
4. Open and announced Calls / Programs
5. Discussion and answers to participants’ questions

The estimated duration of the workshop is 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Opportunities offered by ESI funds will be presented by former EFRI student Tina Đurišić, a consultant in the company Poslovni biro PBIRO d.o.o., Rijeka. The lecturer has many years of experience in the fields of business and investment consulting and is a mentor of the program for the preparation and management of projects financed from EU funds.

As part of this year’s EFRI Networking Week – Connect & Act, we are organizing a panel discussion entitled “ALUMNI EFRI International Careers”, which will take place on March 24, 2021 at 2 p.m. We will talk to the panelists about their experience of studying at EFRI, majoring in International Business course, about the careers they are building in the international environment, the challenges they face and their wishes and plans.

All interested can follow the discussion on the EFRI FACEBOOK page or via the Zoom platform by registering HERE.

Our alumni – panelists are:

– Dora Katana Martić – undergraduate studies, International Business at EFRI, completed in 2016, after which she continues her Master’s studies at Copenhagen Business School, where she graduated in 2018. She is currently building her career at the Middle East Broadcasting Center in Dubai, the largest media house in the Middle East and North Africa region.

– Eni Deković – graduated in International Business at EFRI in 2017. Coordinates business operations in Dublin, within the real estate investment, development and management company – Hines Real Estate Limited.

– Antonio Sterpin – undergraduate studies, International Business at EFRI, completed in 2017, and Master’s studies in 2020 at the Swedish Lund University. He is Head of Business Development at Move Music Distribution (Frankfurt), a company that provides technologies for digital music distribution.

– Luis Emilio Pinedo Juric – graduated in International Business in 2018. His field of professional expertise are labour management and economics so he is working as a Workforce Success Consultant at Workforce.com & Tanda.

The moderator of the panel is  Igor Cvečić, PhD, Associate Professor.

The panel will be held in English.

See you online!

Date and time: Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 2 p.m.

Place: Zoom platform

Language of the lecture: Croatian

The substantive year of 2020 has repeatedly pointed to the unpredictability of movements in financial markets, both domestic and foreign. The high level of macroeconomic uncertainty combined with economic policy makers, technological advances and historically low borrowing costs have largely shaped investors ’expectations and sentiment in financial markets. The expected stabilization of macroeconomic trends is still in a delicate phase, as indicated by the financial trends at the beginning of 2021, which suggests a still very challenging investment environment. This further emphasized the importance of adequate monitoring of systemic risks and appropriate calibration of macroprudential policy in order to preserve the stability of the domestic financial services sector.

The aim of the lecture is to provide an overview of recent macroeconomic and financial developments in the context of systemic risks that are currently at very high levels, and whose materialization can result in significant losses for investors, and in the extreme scenario threaten the stability of the entire financial system.

The lecture is intended for all those who are interested in the broader context of recent developments in financial markets, and especially for students interested in the topic of systemic risks, since in addition to the analysis of trends will highlight the prevailing risks that may adversely affect markets and the domestic financial sector.

Lecturer: Mr. Mario Bambulović, Head of the Systemic Risks Directorate at HANFA.