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What was the identified solution? A Working Group for fostering and removing obstacles to international mobility in education has been established. The main task of the Working Group is to prepare proposals for amendments to existing legislation regulating temporary residence of foreign pupils, students, teachers and non-teaching staff in Croatia, and regulating scholarship awards for pupils, students, teachers and non-teaching staff for study trips abroad.
How was the solution identified?
Who was/were the main actor/s responsible for its identification? The Ministry of Science, Education and Sports founded the Committee for the Mobility of Researchers whose primary purpose is to write an Action Plan for the Mobility of Researchers, follow it’s implementation, to identify and suggest measures for removing obstacles to mobility of researchers, and to encourage and improve both incoming and outgoing mobility of researchers.
How was the solution implemented? By whom? The Working Group for fostering and removing obstacles to international mobility in education prepared proposals for amendments to the existing legislation relevant to incoming and outgoing mobility in a form of an Action Plan for fostering and removing obstacles to international mobility in education for 2010-2012.

The measures of the Action Plan include the following:
1. Increasing financing of learning mobility
2. Improving the legal basis in relation to taxation of grants and scholarships
3. Optimising the management of the EU funds (exchange rates)
4. Equalising the rights of foreign and national students
5. Regulating temporary residence
6. Regulating health insurance system and procedures
7. Improving recognition of international cooperation and mobility as strategic priority for institutional development
8. Capacity building of education institutions
9. Increasing number of modules in foreign languages at the HEIs
10. Facilitating availability of information on studying in Croatia
11. Developing national data basis of international student mobility
12. Improving recognition of study periods abroad

How long did it take for the solution to be implemented?
Did it have a positive impact on the overall level of CBC in the area?
Institution Ministry of Science, Education and Sports
Contact details Ministry of Science, Education and Sports,Donje Svetice 38, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Year of record 2012