The University of Zagreb (1669)
is the oldest and largest university in South-Eastern Europe. Ever since its
foundation, the University has been continually growing and developing and now
consist of 29 faculties, three art academies and the Centre for Croatian
Studies. With its comprehensive programmes and over 50,000 full-time
undergraduate and postgraduate students the University is the strongest teaching
institution in Croatia. It offers a wide range of academic degree courses
leading to Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees in the following fields:
Arts, Biomedicine, Biotechnology, Engineering, Humanities, Natural and Social
Sciences. It is also a strongly research-oriented institution, contributing with
over 50% to the total research output of the country.
The Faculty of Electrical
Engineering and Computing is the largest technical faculty and leading
educational and R&D institution in the fields of electrical engineering,
information and communication technology and computing in the Republic of
Croatia. Being a constituent of the University of Zagreb, UNIZG-FER has its
roots in the Technical Faculty, founded in 1919. In 1956, the departments of
Technical Faculty grew into four new faculties, Faculty of Electrical
Engineering being one of them. The Faculty offers today substantial educational
and R&D facilities including 35 lecture halls, more than 60 laboratories,
Congress centre, tele-conference centre, central library and 12 department
libraries, student restaurant, sport and recreation facilities on 43308 m2. The
Faculty is organised in 12 departments which represent the focal points of
education, research and development in various fields. The present research and
educational staff comprises more than 135 professors and 220 teaching and
research assistants and around 3000 students at the bachelor level, 1300
students at the master level and 470 PhD students. All those numbers clearly
emphasize highly spirited activities in teaching and research. The Faculty has
developed valuable international cooperation with many research institutions
around the world, either directly or through inter-university cooperation. The
number of international projects in the academic years 2010/2011 reached 32
projects, 13 of which are FP7 projects, which makes Faculty of Electrical
Engineering and Computing one of the most internationally active institutions in
Croatia. The Faculty has a long tradition in Biomedical Engineering (BME).
Projects and teaching in BME have started in early seventies in last century.
The largest on-going project in BME at the Faculty is entitled “Non-invasive and
minimally invasive methods and technologies in biomedicine”.
Coordinators of WP5. Dissemination and
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