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The Ministry of Science and Education is the main body responsible for arts and cultural education and training in Croatia. In cooperates with the Ministry of Culture and Media on specific programmes and measures in this field. The Agency for Electronic Media and The Croatian Audiovisual Centre also develop and cooperate on programmes related to media and film literacy. The Agency for Teachers and Education is the body responsible also for professional development in this field and is a partner of the above-mentioned institutions in different programmes for schools. Special arts education is carried out in primary and secondary schools... read more →

Both public and private cultural consumption as well as cultural participation are not continuously monitored nor systematically promoted by the Ministry of Culture and Media or local communities. In most cases cultural organisations themselves promote their programmes and invest in reaching an ever wider audience. There are very few surveys and statistical information or analysis that could result in designing polices to link participation in cultural life to the broader issues of citizen participation. The absence of this kind of information affects the quality of decision-making, especially aimed at decreasing the existing disproportions in the level of cultural development throughout... read more →

According to the data of the the personal expenditure for "Recreation and Culture" in December 2022 represented 5.27% of the total household expenditure. This data shows a further decrease during the last decade, as in comparison to e.g.2017 when it represented 5.5%, while in 2014 it represented 6% of total household expenditure. In 2011, it represented 5.3%, in 2010 it was 5.6%, and it in 2009 it amounted to 5.99% (see sources in Compendium 2020 report, Primorac (2020)). Data available by Eurostat (as presented in Tonković (2022)) shows the structure of the personal expenditure in culture of Croatia in comparison... read more →

A total of 140 theatres operated from 1 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. A number of professional theatres have permanent venues at their disposal, either in-house or located somewhere else. Therefore, along with 80 professional theatres, there were 12 operating permanent venues. In addition, there were 27 professional children’s theatres out of which 7 puppet theatres. A total of 33 amateurs’ theatres operated in the 2021/2022 season (Croatian Bureau of Statistics, 2022d). As noted by the Croatian Bureau of Statistics (2022d), after an extremely difficult 2020/2021 theatre season due to the epidemiological measures introduced to prevent the spread of... read more →

The Ministry of Culture and Media provides support for the activities of artists’ associations or unions in the form of grants and subsidies for their regular activities. The Ministry also approves grants for individual members of these associations or unions to spend time at special artists’ centres and various other forms of cooperation (within Croatia and internationally). The support for professional associations in the audio-visual field is provided through the yearly calls for complimentary activities published by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre. There have not been significant changes in recent years.

Every year the Ministry of Culture and Media organises special competitions to support artistic creativity. A special prize (Marin Držić Prize) to stimulate contemporary playwriting is awarded through a public competition. In addition to a monetary prize, the Croatian national theatre stages the premiere of the prize-winning play. There is also a national prize to support modern Croatian composers to write music, but in this case the prize-winning works are not given their first public performance. The "Vladimir Nazor" Prize, the most important national award established in 1991, is a monetary grant given every year for achievements of special value... read more →

The Ministry of Culture and Media publishes yearly calls for the direct support for literary creativity in the form of stipends and it provides funding for grants as financial stimulation for lauded works of literature. It also secures funding so that the public lending rights for authors (writers, illustrators and translators) can be met on a yearly basis. The public lending rights for writers, illustrators and translators’ remuneration is managed though the HDS-ZAMP service on the basis of the data provided by the National and University Library (NSK). After being a pilot project In 2018 the project for supporting visual... read more →

On the state level, cultural creativity is supported - both directly and indirectly: Support from the budget through annual public calls in all fields of culture (theatre, film, publishing, music etc.) that encompass all the basic cultural activities (creativity, reproduction, transmission etc.) as well as supplementary cultural activities (support for cultural management education, information technology support etc.) as well as cultural infrastructure; direct support for cultural institutions; grants that directly support artistic creativity (e.g. writing, visual arts); payment of retirement and health contributions for independent artists; and ad hoc support from the Ministry's reserve of budgetary funds for projects that... read more →

Table 1: Cultural institutions, by sector and domain Domain Cultural institutions (subdomains) Public sector     Number (year) Number (year) Cultural heritage Cultural heritage sites (recognised) 6 0191 (2020) 64462 (2022) Museums Museums and museum collections 222 (2015) 1656 (2021) Archives Archive institutions 19 (2017) 195 (2020) Visual arts Galleries 303 (2018) 386 (2021) Performing arts Professional theatres 95 (2016/2017) 804 (2020/2021)   Professional children's theatres and amateur theatres 30 (2016/2017) 434 (2020/2021)   Professional orchestras, ensembles and choirs (including symphonic orchestras) 46 (2016/2017) 304 (2020/2021) Libraries Libraries 1768 (2016) 17494 (2020) Audiovisual Cinemas 71 (2017) 754 (2020)   Radio... read more →

It is hard to assess the level of sponsorship support and donations as there is no systematic evaluation on this type of support in Croatia. The Ministry of Culture and Media only has information on the decisions and certificates issued concerning tax relief for companies that requested these certificates (see chapter 4.1.4). However, no information on the amount of these sponsorships or donations is available. It has to be noted that in a number of cases the support for artistic and cultural events is provided through compensation in goods and services rather than monetary support (see chapter 1.3.3). There are... read more →