EU projects

PARTNER ORGANIZATION:

OID¹

E10076249

Legal name

PUBLIC OPEN UNIVERSITY OF PULA

Legal name (National Language)

OPEN UNIVERSITY OF PULA

PROFILES

Type of organization

EDUCATIONAL CENTER FOR ADULT EDUCATION (NON-PROFIT)

ASSOCIATED PERSONS LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE

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Professor

Gender

Male

First Name

ALEXEY

Family Name

MIŠAN

Department

POU PULA (no departments)

Position

Director

E-mail

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Telephone

+385 52 222 388

Address (if different from organization)

ASSOCIATED PERSONS CONTACT PERSON

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Professor

Gender

Male

First Name

ALEXEY

Family Name

MIŠAN

Department

POU PULA

Position

Director

E-mail

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Telephone

+385 52 222 388

Address (if different from organization)

Please brief present the organization/group (e.g. its type, scope of work, areas of activity and if applicable, approximate number of pay/unpaid staff, learners and members of the group).

The Pula Open University is City of Pula's public institution founded in 1956 (POU Pula). The institution was established to carry out educational, informational and different activities with educational purpose. Currently, the POU Pula is running approved and certified programs for acquiring secondary education degree as a program of basic adult education. In parallel, POU Pula conducts more than 30 comprehensive training programs for adults, all implemented by the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia. In addition to these certified programs, the school is also running programs of foreign languages at its specialized Center of foreign languages. POU Pula is providing in-service trainings and continuing professional education tailor made for specific employers (Ministry of Internal Affairs specialised courses, Croatian Chamber of Economy, Pula Hospital). For the similar purpose, POU Pula organizes various workshops, 100% covered through employer contributions. Apart from having 5 full-time employees, POU Pula regularly engages part-time professors and experts from the local community (in total: max.20). Most of the professors are assistant university professors or associate university professors with particular expertise in the fields of management, tourism, cultural management, social entrepreneurship, languages (on request), IT.

There are more than 500 learners that attend some of the educational courses offered by POU on a yearly basis.

POU Pula has high ambition to become a leading institution for adult learning in the region of Istria and therefore is challenging to adapt to current trends in education. The President is well aware of the challenges in the educational environment and its rapid developments. Thus, it is willing to challenge the well known and exploit different educational pathes. For instance, the President has shown a strong interest in the development of varied learning methods and digital tools in teaching at POU Pula and is making effforts to meet in this intention. This is why POU Pula is looking to exploit potentials through EU projects and it's going to dig even deeper in this direction in order to meet in providing high standard and trendy educational programs.

¹Please note that the Organization ID has replicated the PIC as the unique identifier for the organization to apply for Erasmus+ actions managed by National Agencies.