The document was signed by the Mayor of Rijeka, Vojko Obersnel, the CEO of the INA oil company, Zoltan Aldott, INA board member Ivan Kresic, and the Rector of the University of Rijeka, Snjezana Prijic Samarzija.
The project was selected by the INA management as the best business idea proposed by the City of Rijeka and the University of Rijeka as part of the tender "Space for your ideas".
Obersnel said that the good cooperation that has existed between the City and the University for many years was crowned with the construction of the university campus, which includes a science and technology park. "However, its capacity has proved to be insufficient over time, so a new site has been sought for a much larger park," he added.
Kresic said that the Mlaka site had great development potential, and added that INA was preparing a further investment of about 3 billion kuna in its refinery at Urinj.
Prijic Samarzija said that a group of experts from INA, the city administration and the University were dealing with infrastructure and organisational problems so that the project could soon be presented to the government and competent ministries and entered for EU funding.
The former refinery stretches over 15 hectares of land and the plan is to build the science and technology park on eight hectares. An agreement on the use of the site is expected to be signed about a year from now.