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Starting in 2019. with the founding of our organisation, we have brought together people who have been organising projects in Trpanj for the past decade,to cooperate, brainstorm  and bring those projects to a higher level together. In June, there is a cooking/singing event called "Brodetijada". Brodetijada challenges different "klapas" (klapa - a traditional Dalmatian a capella vocal group, protected under UNESCO) to a cooking competition during the day, in which each "klapa" has to cook a "brodet", a traditional dalmatian fish stew. The winnning klapa gets a prize and in the evening all participating klapas hold a concert. There are a football (in late August/early September) and a basketball tournament (in July) , that have been going on for the past 4 years. There are at least 10 teams who apply every year in both of these tournaments, and the teams with the best results get awarded from the prize fund.In the days leading up to Assumption of Mary holiday (15.8.), local Trpanj bands hold a concert named "Noć Trpanjskih bendova" - "Night of Trpanj bands", where their friends,neighbours and families come to listen and have a good time. In late August, there is a manifestation called "Gundulićevi dani" or "Gundulić days", named after a late Croatian nobility member and  poet Ivan Gundulić. This year, "Gundulićevi dani" will last for 15 days, making it a festival hosting individual musicians, klapas, and theater groups.

Wave of Culture has vastly contributed to the revitalization of traditional culture via the organization of the LegendFest - a festival of local legends, myths and storytelling. The first LegendFest was launched by the association's president Ivor Zidarić in 2005 in Pićan, a small Istrian town of his ancestors, which is on the list of Croatian protected cultural goods. In the past two years the festival expanded into Zagreb, Šibenik-Knin Counties, as well as into the Slavonia region. With the organization of LegendFests throughout the country, the Wave of Culture undoubtedly continues to bring an abundance of Croatian tangible and intangible culture into focus, and thus greatly contributes to its cultural preservation for many generations to come. The mission of Wave of Culture is to provide innovative festivals, which connect traditional culture in terms of storytelling, hand crafted goods, and traditional dance and song to be shared with the local communities and visitors. The aim hereby is to introduce domestic and foreign visitors to a wealth of Croatian tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Through interactive events, the visitors learn about the myths, legends and historical details of a particular place. Participants are famous local artists, theater companies, recognized ethnologists, historians, illustrators and others. In addition, visitors are offered food, drinks and souvenirs at the so-called LegendFair known for its locally homemade products. LegendFest has become a part of the international festival platform called ‘Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe’ (EFFE) and has been awarded an EFFE quality mark 2015 – 2016, thus being recognized as one of the best European festivals dedicated to art and community. In 2013 the festival was awarded with 'Simply the Best' award by the Association of Croatian Travel Agencies. The festival has provided means for excellent collaboration between the local community, residents and institutions in the host cities. Museums, tourist offices, media organizations and various private companies have all provided great assistance in organizing the festival.

Through the project "School of the social skills" we conduct primary prevention/early detection of various forms of mobbing as a growing factor in the disruption of mental health of employees. The project achieved a concrete positive impact in terms of prevention and damage reduction of mobbing among victims who have symptoms of mild intensity.
Through the projects, "counseling for victims of mobbing," creative workshops and numerous education, we provide direct protection for victims of mobbing.
In the last few years Association has significantly improved project management experience and therefore their general management experience, particularly through the implementation of projects financed by the European Union.

-Project Harm reduction: activities: -VCT (Volunteery testing and canceling on HIV/AIDS and hepatitis) - Needle Exchange service -Drop-in Centre -Outreach work - Public events with aim to raise up awareness about HIV/AIDS - work with commercial sex workers - care about PLWHIV - information service - educational activities   Project  Youth Information Centre -  youth peer education - foreign language courses - organize activities for youth leasure time - workshops on different topics interested for youth - provide opportunities for youth mobilities through EU projects - make national and international partnerships and networks - help youth with educational difficultes  

Enabling assistance in exercising the right of children and persons with MR, providing services to them: half-day stay service, mobile team service, group and individual work rehabilitation activities,educational,sport and recreational activities.

Two major projects of the organization are literary club Booksa in Zagreb, a place with permanent educational and presentational programs and the internet portal for literature www.booksa.hr.

The main goals of the Association are: organizing workshops, promoting and supporting a lifelong learning and promoting volunteering , promoting lifelong studying and promoting charity work for improvement quality of life.

Main activities of University of Rijeka Foundation are yearly grants for the co-financing of the participation at scientific conferences, co-financing of the organisation of scientific meetings, co-financing of publishing activities, and for the co-financing of student activities. Also, one of our most prominent project is the grant for the Award of the Foundation, carried out continuously since 2004. We select the most meritorious scientists, artists and assistants who have contributed to the development of science at the University of Rijeka and the improvement of the wider community with their exceptional contribution to the scientific research and teaching as well as their actions in public. The Foundation also carries out a number of programs and projects, roundtables, forums, workshops, humanitarian, public and volunteering actions and fundraising campaigns in the field of international collaborations, gender equality, sustainable development, education, human rights, youth, philanthropy...

Festival VISURA APERTA is a project involving young international artists. IT is FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART situated in Momian, on the border of Croatia, Slovenia and Italy. THE IDEA of the festival is to develop interactions between multifarious art practices and the cultural and social reality specific to the area.

Currently working on the production of a photographic book of B&W portraits focused on the people and citizens of Zagreb, Croatia.  The project is called "The Zagreb Project" and will focus on local residents and their individual stories.