Addressing those present, Dean Vedran Bilas said that in the last academic year (2023-2024), the Faculty had a record high number of projects (over 160), and FER is the most successful institution of tertiary education in Croatia in terms of projects from Horizon Europe, the EU's key funding programme for research and innovation. In the last academic year, FER was included in 19 such projects, worth over €30 million.
Bilas said that the Faculty has so far been particularly successful in promoting excellence.
We have been awarded a Croatian Teaming project for the Centre of Excellence in underwater robotics and a sustainable blue economy.
The dean said that in order to transform Croatia into a country of high technology it is necessary to have pro-active universities that are successful in combining excellence in science, education and entrepreneurship and that are highly internationalised through the exchange of students and researchers.
At the ceremony, the Faculty marked the 105th anniversary of the establishment of the Royal Technical College in Zagreb in 1919, its predecessor. On 31 March 1926, the Technical College was renamed the College of Engineering.
On 26 April 1956, the College of Engineering of the University of Zagreb was divided into four new faculties, one of them becoming the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, which started its independent existence
on 1 July 1956.
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering existed under this name until 7 February 1995 when it was renamed the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, FER says on its website.