References

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1. Legislation and official policy documents
2. Data and statistics
3. Studies, reports and academic publications
4. Official websites

Legislation and official policy documents

Croatian Volunteer Development Center (CVDC),Quality Standards for Volunteer Centres (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Croatian Volunteer Development Center (CVDC),Assessment Form for Quality Standard Compliance of the Croatian Network of Volunteer Centres (last accessed 04/06/2017)

Croatian Parliament (Hrvatski sabor), The Asylum Act (no longer in force since 2015) (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Croatian Parliament (Hrvatski sabor), The Volunteering Act (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Croatian Parliament (Hrvatski sabor), The Act on Confirmation of the Memorandum of Understanding between the European Union and the Republic of Croatia on the Participation of the Republic of Croatia in the Youth in Action Program and the Lifelong Learning Action Program (2007-2013) (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Croatian Parliament (Hrvatski sabor), The Protection from Domestic Violence Act (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Croatian Parliament (Hrvatski sabor), The Aliens Act (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Government of the Republic of Croatia (Vlada Republike Hrvatske), National Strategy for the Creation of an Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development 2012-2016 (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Government of the Republic of Croatia (Vlada Republike Hrvatske), Regulation on the Criteria, Benchmarks, and Procedures for Financing and Contracting of Programmes and Projects for the Common Good (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Ministry of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy (Ministarstvo za demografiju, obitelj, mlade i socijalnu politiku), Strategic Plan of the Ministry of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy 2020-2022 (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Ministry of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy (Ministarstvo za demografiju, obitelj, mlade i socijalnu politiku), National Youth Programme 2014-2017 (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Ministry of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy (Ministarstvo za demografiju, obitelj, mlade i socijalnu politiku), Rulebook on the Content of Report on Services or Activities of Volunteer Organisers (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Ministry of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy (Ministarstvo za demografiju, obitelj, mlade i socijalnu politiku), Rulebook on Quality Standards for Social Services (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Ministry of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy (Ministarstvo za demografiju, obitelj, mlade i socijalnu politiku), Comparative Statistics of Volunteering 2019-2020 (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Ministry of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy (Ministarstvo za demografiju, obitelj, mlade i socijalnu politiku), Comparative Statistics of Volunteering 2020-2021 (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Ministry of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy (Ministarstvo za demografiju, obitelj, mlade i socijalnu politiku), Comparative Statistics of Volunteering 2021-2022 (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Ministry of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy (Ministarstvo za demografiju, obitelj, mlade i socijalnu politiku), Official Records of National Committee for Volunteering Development Sessions (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Ministry of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy in cooperation with the National Committee for Volunteer Development (Ministarstvo za demografiju, obitelj, mlade i socijalnu politiku u suradnji s Nacionalnim odborom za razvoj volonterstva), How to Certify Competences Acquired through Volunteering – A Guide for Volunteering Organisers and Volunteers (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Ministry of Family, Veterans’ Affairs and Intergenerational Solidarity (Ministarstvo obitelji, branitelja i međugeneracijske solidarnosti), Rules on State Awards for Volunteering (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Ministry of Social Policy and Youth (Ministarstvo socijalne politike i mladih), Annual Work Report for the Year 2015 (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Ministry of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy (Ministarstvo za demografiju, obitelj, mlade i socijalnu politiku), List of Volunteer Organisers 2020 (last accessed 07/03/2022)

Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy (Ministarstvo rada, mirovinskog sustava, obitelji i socijalne politike), List of Volunteer Organisers 2021 (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy (Ministarstvo rada, mirovinskog sustava, obitelji i socijalne politike), List of Volunteer Organisers 2022 (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Ministry of Social Policy and Youth (Ministarstvo socijalne politike i mladih), Draft Proposal of the National Programme for the Development of Volunteering for the Period 2015-2018 with Draft Proposal of the Operative Implementation Plan of National Programme for the Development of Volunteering for the Period 2015-2018 (last accessed 12/12/2023)

National Committee for Volunteer Development (Nacionalni odbor za razvoj volonterstva), Volunteers’ Code of Ethics (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Office for Cooperation with Non-Governmental Organisations (Ured za udruge Vlade Republike Hrvatske), 2017 Call for Applications – Support for Volunteer Organisers to Enhance Volunteer Management and Implement Volunteer Programmes (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Office for Cooperation with Non-Governmental Organisations (Ured za udruge Vlade Republike Hrvatske), Monitoring of Measures Defined by National Strategy for the Creation of an Enabling Environment for Civil Society Development 2012-2016 (last accessed 27/3/2024)

Croatian Parliament (Hrvatski sabor), Act Amending the Volunteering Act (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Data and statistics

Croatian Bureau of Statistics (Državni zavod za statistiku), Census of population, households and dwellings 2021: Population by sex and age (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Eurostat, Unemployment rates by sex, age and educational attainment level (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Eurostat, Youth long-term unemployment rate (12 months or longer) by sex and age (last accessed12/12/2023)

Eurostat, Persons at risk of poverty and social exclusion by age and sex (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Eurostat, Population by educational attainment level, sex and age (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Eurostat, Early leavers from education and training by sex and labour status (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Eurobarometer, Eurobarometer 455: European youth (last accessed 12/11/2021)

Studies, reports and academic publications

Baketa, N. (2017). Evaluacija provedbe i učinaka Nacionalnog programa za mlade za razdoblje od 2014. do 2017. godine (Evaluation of the implementation and effects of the National Youth Programme 2014 to 2017). Unpublished report. 

Balković, M. 2016. Upravljanje znanjem pri priznavanju i vrednovanju neformalnog i informalnog učenja (Knowledge management within recognition and validation of non-formal and informal learning). Doctoral dissertation, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.

Barić, S. 2008. Volonterstvo kao inherentno socijalno odgovorna djelatnost - pravni aspekti (Volunteering as inherently socially responsible activity – legal aspects). In: N. Bodiroga-Vukobrat & S. Borić (Eds.), Socijalno odgovorno gospodarenje (Socially responsible management) (pp. 213-238). Zagreb: TIM Press. 

Bežovan, G., & Matančević, J. 2011. CIVICUS Civil Society Index in Croatia. Building identity: Future challenges for CSOs as professionals in the societal arena. Zagreb: CERANEO and CIVICUS.

Bežovan, G. 2004. Civilno društvo (Civil society). Zagreb: Nakladni zavod Globus.

Bužinkić, E., Ćulum, B., Horvat, M., & Kovačić, M. 2015. Youth work in Croatia: Collecting pieces for a mosaic. Child and Youth Services, 36(1), 30-55.

Croatian Employment Service. 2016. Anketa o standardu zanimanju radnik/radnica s mladima (Survey on the standards of the youth work profession). Zagreb: Hrvatski zavod za zapošljavanje. No longer available online, except for the methodology used, that can be found here.

Doolan, K., Puzić, S., & Baranović, B. 2018. Social inequalities in access to higher education in Croatia: five decades of resilient findings. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 42(4), 467-481. 

Ilišin, V., Bouillet, D., Gvozdanović, A., & Potočnik, D. 2013. Mladi u vremenu krize (Youth in time of crisis). Zagreb: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Institute for Social Research in Zagreb.

Ilišin, V, & Spajić Vrkaš, V. 2015. Potrebe, problemi i potencijali mladih u Hrvatskoj (Needs, problems, and potentials of youth in Croatia). Zagreb: Ministarstvo socijalne politike i mladih.

Ilišin, V., & Spajić Vrkaš, V. (Eds.). 2017. Generacija osujećenih: mladi u Hrvatskoj na početku 21. stoljeća (Generation of disillusioned youth in Croatia at the beginning of the 21st century). Zagreb: Institute for Social Research in Zagreb.

Kekez, A., Horvat, M., Šalaj, B. 2017. Citizenship Education in Croatia: At the Margins of the System. Journal of Social Science Education, 16(2), 24.  

Kotlar, V., & Ćulum, B. 2014. Vrednovanje izvannastavnih aktivnosti: pogled iz studentske perspektive (Assessing extracurricular activities: the students’ perspective). Suvremene teme, 7(1), 30-55.

Kovačić, M., & Ćulum, B. 2015. Teorija i praksa rada s mladima: prilog razumijevanju rada s mladima u hrvatskom kontekstu (Theory and practice of youth work: A contribution to the understanding of youth work in the Croatian context). Zagreb: Mreža mladih Hrvatske.

Kovačić, M., & Ćulum, B. 2018. A new kid on the block: youth work meets youth policy in Croatia. In H. Williamson, T. Basarab & F. Coussée (Eds.), The History of youth work in Europe (Vol. 6, pp. 149-161). Strasbourg: Council of Europe and the European Commission.

Krolo, K., Tonković, Ž., & Marcelić, S. 2020. The great divide? Cultural capital as a predictor of television preferences among Croatian youth. Poetics, 80, 101400.

Ministry of Science, Education and Sports. 2013. Dopunska isprava o studiju. Upute, pravila i ogledni primjeri (Supplementary study document. Instructions, rules, and examples). Zagreb: Ministarstvo znanosti, obrazovanja i sporta.

Onyx, J., & Leonard, R. 2002. The relationship between formal and informal volunteering: a social capital framework. In ISTR Fifth International Conference. Transforming Civil Society, Citizenship and Governance: The Third Sector in an Era of Global (Dis) Order. Cape Town, South Africa.

Spajić-Vrkaš, V., & Potočnik, D. 2017. Mladi i obrazovanje pred izazovima globalne konkurentnosti (Youth and education facing the challenges of global competitiveness). In V. Ilišin & V. Spajić Vrkaš (Eds.), Generacija osujećenih: mladi u Hrvatskoj na početku 21. stoljeća (Generation of disillusioned youth in Croatia at the beginning of the 21st century) (pp. 75-141). Zagreb: Institute for Social Research in Zagreb.

Tonković, Ž., Marcelić, S., & Krolo, K. 2023. Volontiranje i vrijednosti mladih: izvještaj o rezultatima anketnog istraživanja. (Volunteering and youth values: report on the results of survey research). Osijek: DKolektiv.

Zrinščak, S., Lakoš, I., Handy, F., Cnaan, R., Brudney, J. L., Haski-Leventhal, D., Holmes, K., Hustinx, L., Kang, C., Meijs, L., Pessi, A. B., Ranade, B., Smith, K. A., & Yamauchi, N. 2012. Volontiranje studenata u Zagrebu u komparativnom kontekstu (Students volunteering in Zagreb in a comparative perspective). Revija za socijalnu politiku, 19(1), 25 - 48.

Žuvela, A., & Vidović, D. 2015. Made to Measure? Cultural Policy and Cultural Education in Croatia. In 23rd ENCATC Annual Conference. The Ecology of Culture: Community Engagement, Co-creation, Cross Fertilization. Lecce, Italy.

Official websites

Education and Teacher Training Agency (Agencija za odgoj i obrazovanje) (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Agency for Mobility and EU Programmes (Agencija za mobilnost i programe Europske unije) (last accessed 12/12/2023)

‘Communication Support to Organisations’ Socially Useful Programmes’ award (Komunikacijska podrška društveno korisnim programima udruga), call for application 2016 (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Award ‘Heart print’ for children and youth volunteering development (Nagrada ‘Otisak srca’ za razvoj volonterstva djece i mladih), call for application 2019 (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Croatian Association of Youth Information Centres (Zajednica informativnih centara za mlade u Hrvatskoj) (last accessed on 27/3/2024)

Croatian Employment Service (Hrvatski zavod za zapošljavanje) (last accessed on 27/3/2024)

Croatian Volunteer Development Center web portal (Portal Hrvatskti centar za razvoj volonterstva) (last accessed 27/3/2024)

Croatian Youth Network (Mreža mladih Hrvatske) (last accessed on 12/12/2023)

Europass (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Europe Goes Local (last accessed on 12/12/2023)

European Youth Information Charter (last accessed on 12/12/2023)

European Youth Portal (Europski portal za mlade) (last accessed 12/12/2023)

EU Youth Dialogue in Croatia (EU dijalog s mladima) (last accessed on 12/12/2023)

Institute for Social Research in Zagreb (Institut za društvena istraživanja u Zagrebu) (last accessed on 12/12/2023)

Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy (Ministarstvo rada, mirovinskoga sustava, obitelji i socijalne politike) (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Ministry of Health (Ministarstvo zdravstva) (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Ministry of Science and Education (Ministarstvo znanosti i obrazovanja) (last accessed 12/12/2023)

National Committee for Volunteer Development (Nacionalni odbor za razvoj volonterstva) (last accessed 12/12/2023)

National Foundation for Civil Society Development (Nacionalna zaklada za razvoj civilnoga društva) (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Office for Cooperation with NGOs (Ured za udruge Vlade Republike Hrvatske) (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Office for Human Rights and National Minorities’ Rights (Ured za ljudska prava i prava nacionalnih manjina) (last accessed 12/12/2023)

University of Rijeka (Sveučilište u Rijeci) (last accessed on 12/12/2023)

Volunteer Centre Osijek (Volonterski centar Osijek) (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Volunteer Centre Rijeka (Volonterski centar Rijeka Udruge za razvoj civilnog društva SMART) (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Volunteer Centre Split (Volonterski centar Split Udruge Mi) (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Volunteer Centre Zagreb (Volonterski centar Zagreb) (last accessed 12/12/2023)

Youth in Contemporary Society (Mladi u suvremenom društvu) (last accessed on 12/12/2023)