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Viewing cable 08BUDAPEST56, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN CROATIA

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08BUDAPEST56 2008-01-15 14:52 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Budapest
UNCLAS        BUDAPEST 00056

SIPDIS

R 151452Z JAN 08 ZDK

FM AMEMBASSY BUDAPEST
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 2395
INFO RUEHVB/AMEMBASSY ZAGREB 1180
RUEHLJ/AMEMBASSY LJUBLJANA 0036
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 BUDAPEST 000056 
 
SIPDIS 
 
EUR/NCE FOR MARC NORDBERG 
ZAGREB AND LJUBLJANA FOR SCIENCE OFFICER 
 
E.O. 12959:  N/A 
TAGS: TSPL HR HU
SUBJECT:  SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN CROATIA 
 
Summary 
 
1. The December 18-19 visit to Zagreb of the Regional ESTH Hub 
Office's OES/STC TDYer provided a timely opportunity to discuss 
Croatian S&T governmental infrastructure.  Croatian officials 
expressed a strong desire to continue and expand cooperation with 
the United States on S&T issues.  Croatian officials made it clear 
they would be interested in broad U.S. representation when the next 
joint committee meeting (JCM) is held to clarify the mechanisms on 
how to make this agreement work to its fullest potential.  Croatian 
officials were also supportive of a combined Slovene-Croatian-U.S. 
JCM because of strong scientific cooperation Croatia currently has 
with Slovenia. 
 
Background 
 
2. The governments of the United States and Croatia first signed a 
science and technology agreement on March 18, 1994.  That agreement 
entered into force on May 5, 2000.  That agreement contained a joint 
funds annex in which Croatia received part of the funds allocated to 
the Yugoslavia Joint Fund Agreement.  The fund was formally closed 
in February 2003.  A new science and technology cooperation 
agreement was signed September 27, 2004, under which current 
cooperation is conducted. 
 
S&T Policy of Croatia 
 
3. The Ministry of Science, Education and Sports conducts Croatian 
science and technology policy.  Current policy supports development 
in the IT, natural, technical, biomedical, bio-technical, social 
science and humanities fields.  Croatia's S&T policy is EU focused 
because of upcoming accession to the EU, but Croatian officials 
expressed a strong desire to continue cooperation with the United 
States. 
 
Meetings with Scientists/Academics 
 
4. Visiting ESTH Hub TDYer and Embassy Zagreb Economic Officer and 
Economic specialist met with three scientists in three separate 
meetings to discuss science technology in Croatia as well as current 
cooperation:  Professor Vladimir Paar, Croatian Academy of Sciences; 
Professor Vladimir Taksic, Dean of Science and International Affairs 
at the University of Rijeka; and Professor Hrvoje Babic, Croatian 
Academy of Sciences. 
 
5. Vladimir Paar described the current situation in Croatian 
academia.  He said there has been some movement in the education 
system toward a more interdisciplinary and participatory format. 
Paar also said Croatia needs more teachers and new equipment, as 
current equipment is behind Western standards.  When asked about 
investment in science, Paar said that funding for science is too 
low, but added that no reasonable project has been refused 
government funding.  He said the ministry has largely depoliticized 
the funding process by implementing a system of scientific councils 
to review proposals.  In regard to the private sector, Paar said 
industries support research and development in only a couple 
sectors.  He said current partnerships with Swedish pharmaceutical 
companies have helped bolster research in that sector, and 
biomedical research and chemical engineering are fairly strong 
fields in Croatia.  In Paar's opinion, a U.S.-sponsored workshop to 
bring scientists and U.S. agencies together would do much to further 
cooperation. 
 
6. Vladimir Taksic had a number of questions about a cooperation 
project that was accepted in 2003, but never moved forward.  The 
project was a psychological study to be worked with a professor at 
the University of New Hampshire.  Taksic then described the 
University of Rijeka's newly- established Office of International 
Collaboration.  The office will focus on EU institutions but will 
reach out to the U.S as well.  The goal of the office is to support 
researchers and students at the university in finding and pursuing 
opportunities for international cooperation. 
 
7. Our meeting with Hrvoje Babic focused on how S&T cooperation 
works under the present agreement.  Babic explained that his 
department alone received 11 of the 20 grants awarded in the last 
round of EU S&T funding.  He said that because of this meeting his 
scientists will pursue contacts they have in the U.S. to apply for 
NSF grants.  He also said he and his colleagues at the University of 
Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing need support 
particularly for infrastructure and to cover the high fees of 
accessing international databases. 
 
Former Minister of Science and Education 
 
8. Visiting ESTH Hub TDYer and Embassy Zagreb Economic Officer met 
with Professor Milena Zic-Fuchs, the former Minister of Science and 
Education for the Republic of Croatia. Describing current research 
funding in Croatia, Zic-Fuchs said the main focus areas include 
security, natural and technical sciences, and bio-medicine. 
Zic-Fuchs expressed frustration with the inability of the Croatian 
Academy of Sciences and Arts to adapt.  She blamed this inability on 
the preponderance of old members in the academy.  She said the 
academy has so many requirements that most academics cannot become 
full members until they are in their 60s and 70s.  When asked about 
ways to increase cooperation, Zic-Fuchs supported the idea of an NSF 
workshop or, alternatively, an Embassy science fellow to help in 
grant writing.  She also stressed the importance of the Fulbright 
Program in facilitating connections and allowing Croatian academics 
to experience the less hierarchical American academic culture. 
 
Ministry of Science 
 
9. Visiting ESTH Hub TDYer and Embassy Zagreb Economic Officer and 
Economic specialist met with Marija Crnic, senior advisor for 
international cooperation at the Ministry of Science, Education and 
Sports.  Crnic presented us a matrix detailing all cooperation 
between the U.S. and the Ministry.  The matrix includes 23 projects, 
9 of which are current.  These projects are in cooperation with NSF, 
USDA, NIH and ONR.  The matrix show a much healthier cooperation 
than realized before the meeting.  Crnic did say that Croatian 
scientists could use more help with the application processes for 
grants; in this regard an NSF workshop or an embassy science fellow 
would be welcomed. 
 
10. (SBU) When describing Croatia's international science partners, 
Crnic said Croatia is EU focused because of upcoming accession. 
Most cooperation is done with Croatia's neighbor to the north, 
Slovenia.  When asked if a JCM would be helpful, Crnic said she 
thought it would.  When asked if the Ministry would consider a joint 
JCM with Slovenia, Crnic again responded positively and reiterated 
the strong science relationship among the former Yugoslav republics. 
 (Note:  ESTH Hub TDYer had hoped to visit Ljubljana as well, to 
discuss science and technology issues prior to the upcoming JCM, but 
this was not possible because of scheduling.  There have been 
problems scheduling the Slovene JCM and visiting ESTH TDYer is 
hopeful that a joint JCM in which agencies can conduct business with 
both Slovenia and Croatia would be a possibility.) 
 
Conclusion and Where To Go From Here 
 
11. (SBU) Cooperation with Croatia is very healthy.  Some concerns 
were raised about the application process and thus ESTH Hub TDYer 
would recommend either an NSF workshop or the visit of an Embassy 
science fellow to help with the application process.  A JCM is 
needed as there has not been a JCM since 2005.  Considering the 
problems setting up a Slovenia JCM, the prospects of a stand alone 
Croatia JCM may not be good either, though the cooperation is much 
stronger.  As such, a combined Slovene/Croatian JCM with U.S. 
technical agencies could be both more beneficial and more effective. 
Considering the strong science relationship between Slovenia and 
Croatia, this option may also help those two countries further 
develop partnerships between them. 
 
12. This cable was drafted by Embassy Budapest ESTH Hub TDYer and 
cleared with Embassy Zagreb and Embassy Ljubljana.