The Croatian Employers’ Association is an independent, voluntary association of private entrepreneurs and employers founded during the period of Croatian transition to market economy in 1993. The CEA’s mission is to improve entrepreneurial and investment climate in order to strengthen Croatian economy competitiveness. In the process of strengthening Croatian economy competitiveness CEA proactively works with the trade unions and the Government. CEA represents its members' interests in many international organizations such as: Union des Industries de la Communauté européenne (UNICE), International Employers’ Organizations (IOE) and International Labour Organization (ILO). It also successfully cooperates with employers’ organizations from other European countries. In addition, CEA provides support to newly-founded employers’ organizations in the South Eastern Europe.

One of the strategic projects of 2007 CEAs’ activities is the creation of National Centre for Clusters. The project objective is to create material, organizational and intellectual conditions and prerequisites for more dynamic growth of industry and industry related activities. The main goal of the clusterization project is to increase exports’ revenues of companies in the region/industry, reduce costs per product unit in the region/industry, preserve open and create new jobs in the region/industry, increase the number of developed and adopted new products of high added value in the region/industry and increase by 20% the share of domestic product in the final exported product.
The CEA National Centre for Clusters is one of the partners in the CEEClusterNetwork - Central & Eastern European Cluster and Network Area project. The
FP6 project is oriented towards furthering trans-regional cooperation in creation and maintenance of clusters in Central and Eastern Europe.

Contact Persons:
Vladimir Kovačević, Director
E-mail: vladimir.kovacevic@hup.hr

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