1. FFZG - institution, people and context
Marijana Glavica
SEEDS project kick-off meeting, 4th May 2015

2. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
largest and oldest institution for humanities and social sciences
University of Zagreb - the oldest in Croatia (1669); FFZG began in 1874/74
today 700 employees (more than 500 academics) part time lecturers
more than 100 study programs, BA and MA level; PhD programs
6000 students

3. Related projects (previous and current) SERSCIDA
CLARIN - Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (now ERIC, CRO not yet a member…)
InHerit - Heritage Interpretation for Adult Learning
CESAR - CEntral and South-east europeAn Resources
LetsMT! - Platform for Online Sharing of Training Data and Building User Tailored Machine Translation

6. Initiative for data archiving services
beginning of the year 2006.
bottom-up - enthusiasts from various social science fields and various institutions
failed attempt to institutionalize, but
presented the idea at local conferences
international contacts (ADP, CESSDA Workshop, CESSDA-PPP)

7. Science policy and funding
Institutions
Ministry of Science, Education and Sports - policy
Croatian Science Foundation - financing scientific projects
National Council for Science, Higher Education and Technology Development - strategic and advisory body
Croatian Agency for Science and Higher Education - quality assurance
Documents
Strategy for Education, Science and Technology (2014)
Development plan for scientific infrastructure (2014)
changing and transforming!

8. Stakeholders for data services
science policy and funding institutions
research institutes
research and education institutions
National Statistical Office
libraries
national archives

9. Croatian team in SEEDS
Alen, Marijana, Dobrica, Irena