WORKING GROUP FOR AID TO CROAT, BOSNIAN WAR-DAMAGED UNIVERSITIES I

I $ N SESSION DUBROVNIK, Apr 2 (Hina) - A working group for aid to war-damaged universities in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina held a third session today in Dubrovnik. The working group, formed by the association of European universities last year, consists of the Utrecht University rector Hans Van Ginkel, as its head, the Zagreb University rector, Marijan Sunjic, the Florence University rector, Paolo Blasi and a former Krakow University rector, Andrei Pilczar. The goals of the Dubrovnik session would be the gathering and exchange of information and reports on war-damaged Croatian and Bosnian universities as to facilitate coordination in the European universities' material aid and scholarships for undergraduates and professors from war-damaged universities, Rector Sunjic said. He added that the Council of Europe was involved in the action. The third session in Dubrovnik was attended by Croatian Parliament House of Counties Speaker, Katica Ivanisevic, heads of the universities of Osijek, Rijeka and Split, and deans of several colleges in Croatia as well as rectors of the Bosnian universities of Sarajevo and Mostar. (hina) mms 021308 MET apr 95