2007 Spring Activities

Isle of Knowledge activities begin in mid March on Kolocep Island with a team from Cornell University led by Professor Crist Inman, under the auspices of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise. In recent years such teams from Cornell’s CSGE have brought their expertise on sustainable development to projects in other European countries, as well in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The Island of Kolocep will host the team for one week of data collection as the first stage of a development plan that brings the island’s resort operations to the highest standards of sustainability.
Over the last 12 days of April, Isle of Knowledge is hosting the first annual Eastern Europe Sustainable Hospitality Practicum with the sponsorship of Cornell University’s CSGE and the world’s largest Internet agency – Expedia, whose Partner Services Group initiated the idea for the Practicum, and chose Isle of Knowledge for implementation. Hundreds of hospitality industry leaders from across the region will converge for each of the four seminars in the Practicum, focusing on sustainability issues in the context of competitiveness, service quality, change management processes, and facilities design.
Between May 11th and May 13th, in cooperation with South European Center for Contemporary Finance (SECCF), one of Norway's most renowned professors in the field of Financial Economics - Oyvind Norli will offer a three day intensive course on the subject of Advanced Valuation Techniques in Investment Banking. This would be the first and opening collegiums in the series of top level executive education international courses in advanced finance and banking planned here on The Isle of Knowledge.
Educational activities in May will continue with Conferences of the European Science Foundation, eStudent - from the Faculty of Economics and Business Zagreb, Majors’ Meeting of Marketing Agency DraftFCB London, ....
Apart from the participants of these educational programs and seminars, all of our guests at Villas Kolocep will have the unique opportunity to attend one of the numerous A` la Carte Education Workshops; combining pleasure and finding interesting and captivating things about the Dubrovnik region’s natural and cultural heritage by learning some of the traditional skills still used by locals, or improving language, communication or art skills.

More details about all activities will be presented on a new web site that is in development.

My life's adventure
Koločep, April 15-22, 2006.

During the Easter vacation non-profitable institution "The Isle of Knowledge" and "Children’s Knowledge Assembly" were hosting a huge gathering on island of Koločep where many famous people demonstrated their jobs to primary school children from all over Croatia. Even though the Easter schedule was busy - for two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon every day - the whole event went by in a relaxed atmosphere among children and adults who were watching the whole event sitting in the audience. As seen from the event itself, the attendance and interest for each guest/teacher was great. Tarik Filipović, Zvone Boban, Larisa Lipovac, Domagoj Račić, Ivanka Mazurkijević, Edo Pezzi, Joško Marušić told children all the intersecting details about their profession and through many different workshops explained to them what is their occupation, how did they become to be what they are now and why are they the best in what they do. The main purpose of this program was to understand the true values of their professions for children and their parents, which will help children in their selection of their future careers.

The main Easter event was the second Children's assembly meeting where all the members (county heads) reported to the public about their activities during the one-year term. They talked about successes and problems they had encountered during the whole year. The meeting was presided by Drago Braić, the president of Children’s Knowledge Assembly.

30th December 2005

The president of the Croatian Privatization Fund Mr. Grga Ivezić and director of The Isle of Knowledge Domagoj Račić signed in the Government of the Republic of Croatia a Contract on Transfer of 88, 86 per cent of shares of Hotel Koločep from the state portfolio to ''The Isle of Knowledge''.

After signing the contract, the minister of science, education and sports Ph.D. Dragan Primorac, the chairman of the managing council of Privredna banka Zagreb M.Sc. Božo Prka and the chairman of the managing council of ‘’The Isle of Knowledge’’ Mr. Željko Markota, signed the Protocol on Cooperation. Ministry of Science, Education and Sports and the whole Government supports the project which is up to now considered to be one of the rare and significant investments of the private sector into science, said Minister Primorac.

3rd November, 2005

CPF'S MANAGEMENT BOARD: "OTOK ZNANJA" TO PURCHASE KOLOCEP

ZAGREB, 3/11/2005 (Hina) - Among 14 offers for purchase of majority stake in Hoteli Kolocep, a hotel firm located on the island of Kolocep near Dubrovnik, the one submitted by the non-profit organization "The Isle of Knowledge" was selected as the best. The decision was made by the management board of The Croatian Privatization Fund at today's meeting, first after a two-month's time. Explaining decision to select "The Isle of Knowledge" for the purchase of 88,86 per cent of Hoteli Kolocep shares, president of the CPF's management board Damir Polancec emphasized that their offer had been judged superior in the categories of economy, idea and guarantee. For the first time in the history of Croatian privatization process approved was an offer of a non-profit institution. Such organization is legally bound to re-invest the profit which was also an important element in the evaluation process, said Polancec.

18th October, 2005

The Isle of Knowledge received support from the UN
The Isle of Knowledge has received a letter of support from the UN describing the institution as "innovative project contributing to formation of knowledge society". The letter was signed by Mr. José Antonio Ocampo, UN under-secretary for economic and social issues.

Agreements signed with top Croatian companies
The Isle of Knowledge has signed cooperation agreements with top Croatian companies – Croatia Airlines , Croatia osiguranje, Combis, Elektroprojekt, Euroherc, Hrvatske pošte, Iskon internet, Končar, M-SAN Grupa, RRIF plus, TOZ Penkala, Vladimir Nazor, Privredna banka Zagreb, as well as Dubrovnik Riviera Invest (a consortium of 50 entrepreneurs from Dubrovnik).

Agreements signed with prominent institutions
The Isle of Knowledge has signed agreements with prominent non-profit organizations – Energy Institute Hrvoje Požar, Red Cross, Croatian Society of Economists, Croatian Informatics Clubs Association, Croatian Institute for Local Government. We are expecting official support from many other institutions during the course of next several days. We have also received the letter of intent from German educational group F+U from Heidelberg, comprising 37 educational institutions from Germany.

Support of the European Movement – Europe's oldest organization
The Isle of Knowledge has received official support from European Movement situated in Bruxelles – founders of the Council of Europe and the College of Europe in Bruges. European Movement will soon present the Isle of Knowledge to the European institutions.

05th October, 2005

Frequently Asked Questions: Following numerous questions of our web site visitors, we have introduced the Frequently Asked Questions part of the site.

Domagoj Racic, director of the Isle of Knowledge on web portal connect: Director of the Isle of Knowledge institution is answering all questions on the forum portal.connect.znanost.org, one of the most popular internet meeting spots of Croatian scientists, from 30th September to 10th October, 2005.

The Isle of Knowledge in Croatian media: In just two weeks since the first media item about the institution, Isle of Knowledge has been placed under media spotlights. What have media written about the Isle of Knowledge?

Lecture FIRST INHABITANS OF THE ADRIATIC: In organization of the Isle of Knowledge, prof.dr.sc. Ivor Karavanic from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb will hold lecture “First inhabitants of the Adriatic”. Lecture will be held in Europe House in Zagreb, on Friday 7th September, at 18:00. Admission is free.

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