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On Wednesday, March 4, 2026, a kick-off meeting of the research project “Purpose-Driven Business: Harmonizing Personal and Organizational Purpose towards a New Management Theory” (SPOJ) was held at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Organization and Informatics. The project is funded by the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) under the project UIP-2025-02-5231. The project is led by Associate Professor Ivan Malbašić, PhD.

The research and development team of the Laboratory for Advanced Educational Technologies at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics (FOI), a constituent of the University of Zagreb, in collaboration with the Austrian company GTN Solutions, has developed AIVA (AI Virtual Advisor) – the first AI advisor with pedagogically grounded functionalities that can be used within Moodle at almost all universities in Croatia and beyond. 

During the winter semester 2025/26, students of Economics of Entrepreneurship study program virtually “traveled” and “visited” universities in Asia, America, and Europe, learning about different cultures and various approaches to human resource management in different cultures. The course Strategy of the human resource management is leaded by Full Prof. Marina Klačmer Čalopa, Ph.D., Full Prof. Violeta Vidaček Hainš, Ph.D. and assistant Karolina Kokot, Ph.D.

The University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics (FOI), a leading institution in Croatia in the field of information technology, is launching a strategic partnership with the global cybersecurity leader Palo Alto Networks and FOI’s long-term partner, Cratis.