Education and Culture

Programming

Echoes of Intellectual Luminaries: Decade of Academicians of the island of Hvar 2025-2035

Within our Program of Hvar’s Academic Excellence, “Island’s Academic Odyssey” team led by Petra Sahlberg are working on the project “Decade of Academics of the Island of Hvar – 2025-2035” that aims to explore, celebrate, and promote intellectual and cultural heritage of the academics from the island of Hvar over a decade (2025-2035). Renowned as a socio-anthropological phenomenon, the island of Hvar stands as a beacon of academic excellence with the highest number of academics per capita in the world. 

Whispers of Heritage: Crafting the Dictionary of Stari Grad

Embarking on a linguistic odyssey, within our Program of Hvar’s Academic Excellence, “Island’s Academic Odyssey” our “Dictionary of Stari Grad” aim to collect, describe, and present a linguistic treasure trove. Initiated by Mladen Plančić and Petra Sahlberg, team led by Paula Jurić and Andrino Dužević, both PhD students at the University of Zadar supervised by Prof. Dr. Dunja Brozović Rončević, head of Department of Ethnology and Anthropology at the University of Zadar, are working on comprehensive Dictionary of Stari Grad to preserve, promote, raise the social and cultural awareness of the local dialect, enriching Hvar’s cultural heritage for generations to come.