Project OBRAD will be launched with the 1st OBRAD Conference in Zagreb on June 2nd and 3rd 2016. Conferences will be held once bi-annually and will provide opportunities for ongoing communication and co-operation between education and economy.

The organisational partnership of Croatian Employers' Association, University of Zagreb and VERN' University of Applied Sciences clearly demonstrates that essential problem and challenge in the relationship education-economy-social development have been recognized by the key stakeholders of that development. Such a partnership is also a significant step toward uniting public and private interests in creating a different, more contemporary and more constructive education than the one we currently have in Croatia, the kind of education that will set in motion mechanisms of economic growth and sustainably meet the needs of the labour market and at the same time foster new knowledge and new opportunities to apply such knowledge for the benefit of the society as a whole.