Representatives of ethnic minorities and County Prefect Zlatko Komadina on Thursday signed agreements to this effect in the city of Rijeka.
Komadina said that this year's budgetary funds for this purpose rose by 10 percent in comparison to last year.
The funds will be allocated to 25 associations of ethnic Serbs, Italians, Hungarians, Bosniaks, Czechs, Ruthenians and Ukrainians, Slovaks, Montenegrins, Slovenes, Roma, Albanians, Askalia, Macedonians and Jews.