HRVATSKO KATOLICKO SVEUCILISTE

Their core work

Catholic University of Croatia (Zagreb) is a higher education institution whose H2020 involvement centres on the ethics and governance of research — not laboratory science. They contributed to PRO-RES, a multi-year project building policy frameworks for responsible research and innovation, and to TPTF_ERN, a public-engagement event connecting Croatian audiences with MSCA science through figures such as Nikola Tesla and Rudjer Boskovic. Their practical value in a consortium is in research-integrity assessment, ethics guidance, and public communication of science in the Croatian context. Both projects were Coordination and Support Actions (CSA), meaning their contribution is advisory, policy-oriented, and communicative rather than experimental.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both H2020 projects started in 2018, so there is no genuine multi-year trajectory to analyse — the apparent keyword shift reflects two parallel tracks rather than a change in direction over time. The first track (PRO-RES) is inward-looking and policy-oriented: ethics, integrity, impact assessment, responsible innovation governance. The second track (TPTF_ERN) is outward-looking and communicative: public events, popularisation, science heritage, researcher visibility. Taken together, the profile suggests a university that sees its H2020 role as bridging serious research ethics work with broader societal engagement, but the evidence base is too thin to claim a directional trend.

With only two CSA projects from the same year, there is no reliable trend signal — any future collaboration should treat them as a specialist in research ethics and science communication rather than assume broader scientific capacity.

How they like to work

Catholic University of Croatia has participated exclusively as a consortium partner, never as coordinator, across both projects. Their consortia were relatively large — 29 unique partners across 9 countries — indicating they are comfortable operating inside complex European partnerships rather than leading them. This pattern is consistent with a specialist contributor that brings a defined, bounded capability (ethics, public engagement, national context) without needing to manage the full project.

The university has engaged with 29 distinct consortium partners spread across 9 countries, a broad European footprint for an institution with only 2 projects. This suggests the consortia they joined were large, multi-national initiatives rather than small bilateral collaborations.

What sets them apart

As a Catholic university, this institution brings a specific ethical-philosophical tradition to research-integrity and responsible-innovation debates — a perspective that can be genuinely distinct inside secular academic consortia dealing with ethics governance. They also serve as a Croatian civil-society anchor, useful for projects needing national outreach in the Western Balkans or Southeast European context. However, their H2020 footprint is very small, and potential partners should verify current research capacity directly before assuming ongoing engagement.

Highlights from their portfolio

• PRO-RES
  The largest project by budget (EUR 92,500) and longest duration (2018–2021), focused on building European-level policy tools for research integrity and responsible innovation — substantive policy work rather than a one-off event.
• TPTF_ERN
  A European Researchers' Night event that used Croatian scientific heritage (Tesla, Boskovic) as the hook for MSCA public engagement — an unusual combination of national identity and EU science communication.