Digital Technologies and Artificial Intelligence Increasingly Present in Education, with a Strong Need for Education and Clear Guidelines

The first study in the Republic of Croatia to simultaneously include students, parents, and educational professionals in the context of digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and student well-being has been conducted.Zagreb, 13 March 2026 — The Croatian Academic and Research Network (CARNET) and the Catholic University of Croatia, within the framework of the BrAIn project, conducted a…

Assistant Professor Špoljarić at the Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America

Assistant Professor Luka Špoljarić, PhD, stayed in San Francisco from 19 to 21 February 2026, where he participated in the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. He organised a session entitled “Venice’s Diplomacy and Espionage at the Ottoman Court in the Late Fifteenth Century”, which, in addition to himself, featured Stefan Stantchev from Arizona State University and Monique O’…

First Research Workshop of the CroDaSTrans Project Held at CUC

On 5 February 2026, the first research workshop of the project team of the Croatian Science Foundation project “The Formation of the Territorial State in Late Medieval Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia: Socio-Political and Administrative Transformations” (CroDaSTrans, IP-2025-02-4345) was held at the Catholic University of Croatia. The project is led by Professor Ivan Majnarić, PhD, and is being…

A new “device for the detection of phase transformations” within the AntibacHip project

The scientific research project “Development of an Innovative Antibacterial Material for a Hip Endoprosthesis,” led by the Catholic University of Croatia and headed by Prof. Tamara Holjevac Grgurić, PhD, is funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan under the Targeted Scientific Research call.The project focuses on the development of an innovative material for hip endoprostheses with…

Assistant Lovro Knežević participated in the ECQI conference in Athens

Assistant Lovro Knežević, univ. mag. soc., from the University Department of Sociology, participated on January 14 in the international conference European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ECQI) in Athens with a poster presentation entitled “Social imaginaries of school principals about AI in future education: a study from Croatia.”In collaboration with co-authors Josip Ježovita, Miriam Mary…

Public Lecture Held: How Was the Medieval State Forged?

On Thursday, 29 January 2026, a public lecture entitled “The Formation of the Medieval State” was held at the Catholic University of Croatia.The lecture was organised within the framework of the Croatian Science Foundation project “The Formation of the Territorial State in Late Medieval Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia: Socio-Political and Administrative Transformations” (CroDaSTrans, IP-2025-02-…

Announcement of the Scientific and Professional Conference “Growing Up with Screens: Five Years of Insights into Family, Technology, and Child Development”

The research group of the D.E.C.I.D.E. project is organizing a scientific and professional conference entitled “Growing Up with Screens: Five Years of Insights into Family, Technology, and Child Development,” dedicated to presenting findings on family life, digital technology, and child development, based on five years of research conducted within the D.E.C.I.D.E. project.The conference program…

Members of the BrAIn Project Research Team at the Conference “Media and the Family in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”

Members of the research team of the BrAIn project participated in the scientific conference “Media and the Family in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”, organised by the Department of Communication Studies at the Catholic University of Croatia. The conference took place on 10 December 2025 at the Catholic University of Croatia. The research team presented selected findings from the study “Use of…

Professor Majnarić Lecture Within the “Advent at the Faculty of Humanities” Program

On Monday, 8 December 2025, at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Split, Prof. Ivan Majnarić, PhD, from the University Department of History of the Catholic University of Croatia (CUC) delivered a lecture as part of the program Advent at the Faculty of Humanities. The lecture was organized within the framework of public outreach and the presentation of selected…

Dr Ana Žulec Ivanković Presents at the 32nd Annual Conference of Croatian Psychologists

Dr Ana Žulec Ivanković, senior research assistant at the University Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Croatia (CUC), took part in the 32nd Annual Conference of Croatian Psychologists, held in Split from 5 to 8 November 2025.She presented a paper entitled “Instagram vs. Reality: Is High-School Students’ Satisfaction with Their Appearance Shaped by Their Instagram Stories?”, in which…