Last year the first class of Marin Cilic Foundation scholarship recipients included eight athletes and six musicians.
"This year the plan was to award 20 scholarships, but we decided to award 22 because the applications we received were brilliant," the foundation's director Nevena Mrkonjic said. She added that a HRK 50,000 (€6,700) donation went to Zagreb's Izidor Krsnjavi Secondary School for equipment for the chemistry lab.
The scholarships were presented by tennis player Marin Cilic personally.
"Like last year, this year too it was very difficult to decide who to award a scholarship to because all these are very successful young people. I'm very glad that this year we have increased the number of scholarships to 22 from last year's 14," Cilic said.