Rijeka Innovation Living Lab

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prof. Dragan Čišić, Ph.d.

Head of Rijeka Innovation Living Lab

Dragan Čišić is full professor at Faculty of Maritime Studies University of Rijeka, and full member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts . Head and founder of Rijeka Innovation Living Lab , member of European Network of Living Labs ( 4 wave) . President of Croatian Logistic Association and member of European Logistic Association (ELA). Founding member and coordinator of ALADIN – Alpe Adria University Initiative. From 1990 to 2014 member of Central European Initiative IT Task Force . Visiting profesor on masters on Universiity degli studi di Trieste, UNIAdrion (IT) and ph.d. study on Univerza v Mariboru, and ph.d. schools NITIM ( Network od Information technology and Innovation Management) and European Logistics Association ph.d. european logistics summer school 2015. Member of significant international conferences organization comitees. Member of editoprial board of: Journal of Maritime Studies , International Journal of Infonomics , IJTEL, International journal of mobile based learning, IJMBL, Scientific Journal International, IJCSITA, , International journal on traffic and transport engineering, Modern Traffic and Transportation Engineering Research , Journal of Shipping and Ocean Engineering ,Journal of Logistics and Sustainable Transport, Journal of Management and Training for Industries and Council member of Harvard Business Review. Published more than 180 papers and 21 book ( 14 as editor) .

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prof. Bojan Hlača, Ph.d.

Head of Port Logistics team.

- From 2012. - Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistic and Transport (UK), London - 2008-2012. - President of the Supervisory Board Motorway Rijeka –Zagreb Ltd - 2012. President of North Adriatic Ports Association (NAPA). Ports: Ravenna, Venezia, Trieste, Koper, Rijeka - 2008. - Member of the Croatian Comitee in Sector Traffic for participation of the Republic of Croatia to full membership of the EU - 2008-2011. - Elected Representative in the Croatian Parliament - 2005-2011 - Member of the Administrative Board of the International Association of Cities and Ports (IACP) Le Havre. 2005-2012 - Member of the General Assembly of the European Sea Port Organization (ESPO), Brussels. - From 1998. - Director for Croatia for International Association of Ports and Harbours, Tokyo. - From 1998-2012. - President of the Croatian Port Authority Association. - 1996-2000. - Member of the Croatian Railway Supervisory Board - 1994-1996. - President of the Croatian Sea and River Ports Association - 2005-2011 Member of the Administrative Board of the “Association Internationale Villes & Portes” International Association of Cities & Ports (IACP) Le Havre - 2005-2010 Member of the Administrative Board of the “Croatian Association for the Coastal Traffic Promotion” - From 1993. - Member of the Chartered Institute of Transport, London. - From 1993. - Member of „Intergovermental Group of Experts on Ports“, United Nation Conference on Trade and Development, Geneve, Swizerland

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prof. Ana Perić Hadžić, Ph.d.

Head of International Projects

Head of Department of Logistic and Management Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Rijeka

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prof. Edvard Tijan, Ph.d.

Head of Business Information System Team

Assistant professor at University of Rijeka, Faculty of Maritime Studies (Logistics and Management department). Graduated in several fields: logistics ICT (PhD), economics (MSc), maritime transport (MSc), electrical engineering (BSc), marine electronics and ICT (BSc). Participated in several EU projects (FP6, FP7, and Interreg) and professional projects related to maritime transport, ICT, e-learning, m-learning and tourism. Published two book chapters, over 50 scientific articles and over 20 professional papers related to ICT, logistics, e-business, e-learning, m-learning, etc. Chairman of “MIPRO Digital Economy” international conference.

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prof. ALen Jugović, Ph.d.

Head of Economics Team

Associate Professor. Graduated in 1999 from the Faculty of Maritime Studies of the University of Rijeka and became B.Sc. in Technology maritime traffic. At the Faculty of Economics in 2005 defended his scientific thesis (master degree), and then at the same university in 2008 defended his doctoral degree and received his doctor's degree in social sciences, field of economy. He completed his professional master's Economics for Sustainable Transportation Development in the Virtual University of the Adriatic-Ionian Basin, Trieste-Italy. He works at the Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Rijeka as an associate professor and is currently the vice-dean for business relationships, and from 1 October 2016 to perform the function of the Dean of the Faculty. It carries the following courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels: Sea port management, Economics of shipping, Port business and Economics and organization of maritime passenger transport and on doctoral study the subject Economics of infrastructure projects in the port system. As a subcontractor to the Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Split he is a holder of the courses Port operations and Port system. He was head of the inter-university doctoral studies of Faculty of Maritime Studies in Rijeka and cooperating institutions. He has participated in over fifty professional and three scientific projects related to the organization, logistics operations, concession, economic exploitation and management of maritime organizations (ports and shipping companies). The most important his research projects are: National Development Plan ports of county and local importance in Croatia, Master plan of ports open to public traffic from the county and local interest in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Sustainable Development Strategy of Cruising Zourism in Croatia, Ten Year Development Plan Croatian port system and many others. He was engaged and the three European project, of which the one was the leader of the European project "Developing of Motorways of the Sea system and Adriatic region - AdriaticMoS" IPA Adriatic cross-border cooperation. He has published independently or co-authored about 60 scientific papers in the field of economics, logistics, traffic and transport, ports and shipping, and participated in a number of national and international conferences and meetings. He is coauthor or author of three university books entitled "The management of sea passenger port", "Management in shipping and ports" and “Management of sea ports”. He is member of: Chamber of Engineers Transport Technology - Vocational class engineer’s traffic on inland waterways and maritime transport, Croatian Scientific Society for Transport, the Scientific Council for Maritime Affairs - section of the sea port of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Croatian Academy of Engineering, Croatian Society economists and the International maritime companies in Economics (IAME).

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Dario Ogrizović M.sc.

ph.d. student ICT

Ph.d. student and teaching assistant. Expert in ICT. Has experience of working in teams on various projects including design and implementation of information systems and software development. Some projects are: University of Rijeka - e-University development, The National Foundation for Science - design and implementation of IT infrastructure and web portal development, Center for advanced computing and modelling, University of Rijeka – HPC, Grid and Cloud Computing development team Actively involved in the Free/Libre and Open Source Software communityMore →

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Mladen Jardas M.sc.

ph.d. student logistics


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Gorana Stumpf M.sc.

ph.d. student economy

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