President Milanović Receives Students and Teachers Implementing a Project to Connect Health Schools

The President of the Republic Zoran Milanović met today with the organizers and participants of the E-Medica (E-Medicine) Project, a project for connecting health schools in the Republic of Croatia aimed at promoting new Information Communication technologies, exchanging acquired knowledge and experience in enhancing the quality of teaching processes.

In presenting the project, the organizers told President Milanović that the E-Medica has been held and developing for the past 17 years and that some two hundred students and eighty teachers have participated in the project each year. They explained that health projects are designed by the health school students themselves, presented and implemented at annual fairs. This year the E-Medica fair was held at the end of November at the Terme Tuhelj spa. The project also has a regional characteristic since it assembles health schools from Slovenia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in addition to twenty health schools from Croatia.

At the meeting they discussed the curriculum of health schools underlining the great interest of students for health schools, which number 24 in Croatia. Nevertheless, a large number of nurses and medical technicians go to work abroad after completing their education due to significantly better material working conditions.

Attending the meeting in the Office of the President of the Republic were: the E-Medica project manager and expert associate of the Vrapče Nursing School Zlatica Šimunović, the principal the Šibenik Medical School, which is implementing the E-Medica Project Aleksandra Acalin, the national leader of cooperative student projects and vocational teacher at the Vrapče Nursing School Irena Crkvenac, the national leader of student exchange in projects and vocational teacher at the Pula Medical School Sanja Benazić Kliba, the national leader of the promotion and social media project, coordinator and vocational teacher at the Šibenik Medical School Snežana Žaja, students from the Šibenik Medical School Ivan Tanfara and Mladen Bulat as well as students from the Vrapče Nursing School Patrik Draganić, Ena Rončević and Marija Manola Kojundžić.

Alongside President Milanović was the Adviser to the President for Education Jadranka Žarković.

PHOTO: Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia / Marko Beljan