She took part in a meeting of the European Union's General Affairs Council and held talks with EIB Vice President Anton Rop.
The Adriatic Provence project envisages a new lifestyle tourism region in the Adriatic hinterland, Pusic said, adding that the area behind the first mountain range along the coast was as attractive as the French region of Provence.
The second project is an excellence centre, a Croatian intellectual product developed during the years of preparation for EU entry.
Pusic said Croatia had developed an expertise in the building of state institutions, notably post-conflict state institutions. She said this knowledge was especially necessary in contemporary circumstances and that Croatia was willing to transfer it to the other countries in the region as well as to south Mediterranean countries.
The General Affairs Council meeting discussed the EU's draft Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020. Under its accession treaty, EUR 13.7 billion is envisaged for Croatia in that period, but the bulk of the funds can be obtained only through good projects.
Under the draft, funds envisaged for one budget year can be agreed over for the next two years. Croatia wants this to be extended to three years, which would considerably increase its chances of absorbing the available funds.
"If you didn't sign contracts and use those funds in the envisaged period, they go to waste. For the first six months of 2013, we have been given the possibility to use those funds that year and for three more years. For everyone else, the proposal is that it be two more years. Everyone has the n+2 model and there is no guarantee that we will get more, but we are working on it and fighting for it," Pusic said, adding that for Croatia it was more important to be given a longer period of time than the amount it could draw.