Date: April 01, 2022 at 10 am

Venue: Croatian Football Club Rijeka, 51000 Rijeka

For EFRI alumni, students and employees, EFRI organized a visit to the Football Club Rijeka. Upon arrival at the club, we will be welcomed by Mr. Luka Ivančić, general manager of the Croatian Football Club Rijeka, who will say a little more about the club itself, its history and the management of it.
Gathering will be in front of the main entrance to the premises of the Croatian National Theatre Rijeka. Parking is provided for all participants.

The number of participants is limited, so please sign up for your visit as early as possible at the following LINK.

Applications are approved in the order of receipt.

For any additional information, you can contact alumni@efri.hr.

We look forward meeting you!

Date: March 31, 2022 at 15 p.m.

Venue: City Museum of Rijeka & The Sugar Palace

The visit starts with a tour of the Rijeka Torpedo exhibition. This exhibition is the first concrete step towards the museum’s collection – the museum of industrial heritage. Numerous collaborators of various professions and different interests and more than cooperative museums and other institutions gathered around this exhibition.

The Sugar Palace is the largest neo-Baroque building on the eastern Adriatic coast. Currently, the exhibition “Unknown Klimt – Love, Death, Ecstasy” is being held as part of the City Museum of Rijeka.

Nine pictures from the Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl Zajc in Rijeka are brought to the public’s face.

Participation is free of charge and includes tickets and guides at both locations.

Agenda

1. Tour of City Museum of Rijeka – Rijeka Torpedo: duration approx. 45 min
2. Tour of The Sugar Palace – The unknown Klimt: duration approx. 1:15/1:30

The number of participants is limited, so please sign up for your visit as early as possible at the following LINK.

Applications are approved in the order of receipt.

For any additional information, you can contact alumni@efri.hr.

We look forward meeting you!

Date: October 22, 2021, at 2 p.m.

Venue: Zoom platform

You can register for the webinar at the LINK.

The webinar is intended for anyone who wants to acquire new knowledge and get information about the equity fund (private equity / venture capital funds) as a source of financing the economy and the possibilities of financing small and medium enterprises through the Progress market.

The webinar will provide answers to questions such as:

• • what is private equity / venture capital fund
  • who are the investors in equity funds
  • what does equity investment process looks like
  • what is private capital and what are the advantages of private equity financing over borrowing financing
  • what entrepreneurs need to know about equity financing
  • what the Progress market is and for whom it is intended
  • what are the advantages of financing operations through the Progress market over financing through equity funds
  • who is a potential issuer and who is an investor in the Progress market
  • how to use multiple sources of funding

Lecturers:

Introductory speech – Mr. Vanja Dominović, Head of the Department for Financial Institutions Sector for Trade and Financial Institutions of the Croatian Chamber of Commerce

Dragana Resan, Head of the Business Supervision and Risk Management Unit at Prosperus – Invest private equity fund management company – her area of ​​interest is investment funds with an emphasis on private equity funds, so she independently publishes articles in professional journals to contribute to the private equity fund industry . She has twenty years of experience in the investment fund industry, during which she gained specific knowledge in the field of investment fund accounting, financial reporting, complex regulatory framework and risk management. She is the Deputy President of the Association of Investment Funds at the Croatian Chamber of Commerce, in charge of alternative investment funds, and is a member of the working group “Accounting and Taxes of Investment Funds” at the European Association of Investment Funds in Brussels. She holds a license of certified internal auditor – specialist in the field of banks and financial institutions of the Section of Internal Auditors of the Croatian Association of Accountants and Financial Professionals in Zagreb and an international certificate of compliance specialist, ATTF Luxembourg.

Morana Plejić, Progress Market Manager at the Zagreb Stock Exchange d.d. – Her area of ​​interest is projects related to financing, especially small and medium-sized enterprises and economic development, but also all projects related to the improvement of national policies and development strategies. After more than 20 years of work in the field of banking and EU programs, she is coming to the Zagreb Stock Exchange d.d. and since 2017 has been leading a project called Progress Market. The goal of the Progress market is to provide a new way of financing small and medium-sized enterprises in the capital market. She is actively involved in entrepreneurship education, cooperation with national and European bodies and in 2019 was elected a member of the Technical Group of Experts led by the European Commission aimed at strengthening public capital markets for small and medium enterprises.

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.