Tado Jurić
An Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Croatia. He has been elected to scientific titles in the scientific fields of 1) Demography and 2) Political Science – History.
He completed his graduate studies in German Language and Literature – History in Osijek, and his postgraduate studies in European Studies: Regional Cooperation and Integration into the European Union in Osijek and Karlsruhe. In 2012, he received his PhD in Political Science at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg with the dissertation: “Bosnien und Herzegowina, Serbien und Kroatien auf dem Weg zur EU-Mitgliedschaft.”
He is a UN expert on demography and a visiting professor at the University of Graz. Before his employment at the Catholic University of Croatia, he worked as a teacher of German language and history and as a coordinator of Croatian language instruction in Bavaria.
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INTERESTS:
His fields of scientific interest include migration, population policies, integration, and digital demography.
COURSES:
Contemporary Migrations and Demographic Transformation of the EU
Nation and Nationalism
Digital Humanities
Demography and Healthcare
PROJECTS:
He led the CUC project Analysis of the Causes, Motives and Characteristics of the Emigration of Croatian Families to Germany (2019–2021).
Current projects:
EU Integration Policy: Principles of an Effective Integration Model for Croatia (principal investigator, 2024) – link
New Demographic Policy of the Republic of Croatia: Analysis and Recommendations of Demographic Measures (principal investigator, 2025)
