The agreement was signed by the two institutes' directors in the presence of senior officials of the Croatian Science Ministry and the Science and Technology Ministry of the Austrian province Styria.
Cooperation will include research in nanotechnology, environmental protection and biomedicine. The first joint workshop was also held today.
Croatia's state secretary for science Drazen Vikic-Topic said Croatia had launched 27 bilateral science projects with Austria based on an agreement signed in 2003.
This autumn, the two institutes, in cooperation with Slovenia's Jozef Stefan institute, plan to hold the NANO Joint Symposium of the Countries in the EU-Region of the Future.