Center for Lifelong Education & Adult Education

1. Mission

The mission of the Centre is to foster permanent employability of citizens and to contribute to the successful transition of our region and Croatia to a society and economy based on knowledge and lifelong learning.

2. Basic goals

• Providing training and development services in the field of economics and associated disciplines for business people and professionals.
  
• Consulting in organizational or personal processes of lifelong learning, adaptation and development.
• Developing adaptation abilities and proactive change management.

3. Educational programs forms and levels

• Formal continuing education involves organized learning processes within verified educational programs to acquire an officially recognized certificate of a particular education level. Formal educational programs include training or professional development programs providing qualifications that will be recorded in the personal employment record card.

• Informal continuing education involves organized learning processes in non-verified training programs for professional, social, and personal development. These programs may be organized as in-house or open programs, and upon their completion the participants will obtain a Certificate of Attendance.

• In- house programs are tailored to specific needs of clients, most frequently firms, and are aimed at professional training and development of their human resources to improve their efficiency and competitiveness.

• Open programs are directed to the wider public for the purpose of professional training and development as well as personal growth of participants. 

4. Disciplines included in continuing education

• Marketing,
• Business organization and management,
• Business finance,
• Production management
• Human resources management
• Accounting Entrepreneurship
• Information technology
• Tourism and hospitality
• International trade
• European integration
• Business language courses
• Other disciplines related to economics.

Each of these disciplines is the framework for a range of program lines branching out horizontally and vertically to include various disciplines in compliance with the clients' requirements.