What works in Croatia
22 evaluated practices · All catalogues
Evidence snapshot for Croatia
Croatia has undertaken multiple large-scale digital transformation and AI initiatives across education, public services, and community support. The e-Schools programme connected all 1,321 Croatian schools, delivered 110,000+ laptops, trained ~70,000 people, and achieved a confirmed 10% digital-maturity boost, while the BrAIn project piloted AI curriculum in 53 vocational schools in 2024/25, training 68 teachers and reaching 1,018 students, with over 90% of teachers planning to continue. Beyond education, Croatia's Ministry of Justice operationalised ANON, an AI pseudonymisation tool for court decisions, and the Ministry of Economy piloted AI/NLP regulatory mapping, though validation found only 54% of flagged requirements were actually relevant. The evidence demonstrates both substantial investment in digital infrastructure and emerging experience with AI deployment, though the regulatory mapping example illustrates challenges in AI accuracy that remain to be resolved.
Drawn from: e-Schools – Development of a System of Digitally Mature Schools in Croatia · Libraries for a new age · AI/NLP-Automated Regulatory Mapping — Croatia's World Bank-Supported Business-Licensing Stocktake · ANON — Croatia's AI tool for automated pseudonymisation of judicial decisions · BrAIn — AI Curriculum in Croatian Vocational Education and Training · Participation of young women in decision-making processes in Croatia · Analysis of the Representation Of Women in the Elections for the Croatian Parliament in 2020 · Discrimination of Women in Management Positions in Politics in Croatia - The Case of Political Participation in Government Management between 1990 and 2016
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Teacher capability & pedagogy +0.52
Transparency, fairness & accountability +0.453
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced +0.401
Effectiveness +0.189
Evaluated outcomes +0.163
Governance, capability & sustainability +0.139
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +0.129
Equity & inclusion +0.11
Transparency, ethics & data protection +0.083
Weaknesses
Evaluation evidence -0.08
Curator validation -0.096
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -0.108
Scalability & sustainability -0.133
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -0.238
Top good practices here
e-Schools – Development of a System of Digitally Mature Schools in Croatia · 92
AI/NLP-Automated Regulatory Mapping — Croatia's World Bank-Supported Business-Licensing Stocktake · 73
ANON — Croatia's AI tool for automated pseudonymisation of judicial decisions · 73
BrAIn — AI Curriculum in Croatian Vocational Education and Training · 67
Second National Action Plan for Women (2019-2023) – NAP II · 59
Croatian Women of Influence Award · 56
Croatia's Forest Public Benefit Function Fee (Naknada za Općekorisne Funkcije Šuma) · 53
Recommended to adopt or replicate
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- Rated highly transferable
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