The year of Nikola Tesla, who was trained for an engineering career at the Technical University at Graz, Austria, and the University of Prague and who earned his reputation as a scientist while working in the United States, will be marked by many events, such as lectures on Tesla's life and work in Croatian primary and secondary schools, round-table discussions and conferences of scientists.
Croatia is also reconstructing the house in which he was born in the village of Smiljan near the town of Gospic.
There are plans to erect a monument in his honour in Zagreb.
Tesla died on 7 January 1943 in New York.
Some of his inventions are a telephone repeater, rotating magnetic field principle, polyphase alternating-current system, induction motor, alternating-current power transmission, Tesla coil transformer, wireless communication, radio, and fluorescent lights.