Ministry of Science and Education (Croatia)
Ministarstvo znanosti i obrazovanja | |
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Agency overview | |
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Formed | 31 May 1990 |
Jurisdiction | Government of Croatia |
Headquarters | Donje Svetice 38, Zagreb, Croatia 45°48′24″N 16°00′51″E / 45.806643°N 16.014043°E |
Employees | 425 (2015)[1] |
Annual budget | ![]() |
Minister responsible | |
Website | public |
The Ministry of Science and Education of the Croatia (Croatian: Ministarstvo znanosti i obrazovanja or MZO) is the ministry in the Government of Croatia which is in charge of primary, secondary and tertiary education, research institutions and sports.
List of ministers
The ministry in its current form came into existence in 2003 in the Cabinet of Ivo Sanader I, resulting from the merger of the earlier Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education and Sports. Both ministries had been originally formed in 1990, although they had changed forms and names several times during the 1990s. Below are lists of ministers of who headed both portfolios before the 2003 merger.
- Ministers of Science (1990–2003)
From 1990 to 1992 the first three ministers held the title of Minister of Science, Technology and Informatics. In August 1992 the ministry was renamed Ministry of Science and Technology, which remained unchanged until 2003.
Minister | Party | Term start | Term end | |
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Osman Muftić | style="background-color: Template:Independent/meta/color" width="2px"| | Non-party | 30 May 1990 | 31 July 1991 |
Ante Čović | style="background-color: Template:Independent/meta/color" width="2px"| | Non-party | 31 July 1991 | 15 April 1992 |
Jure Radić | style="background-color: Template:Croatian Democratic Union/meta/color" width="2px"| | HDZ | 15 April 1992 | 12 August 1992 |
Ivo Sanader | style="background-color: Template:Croatian Democratic Union/meta/color" width="2px"| | HDZ | 12 August 1992 | 7 January 1993 |
Branko Jeren | style="background-color: Template:Croatian Democratic Union/meta/color" width="2px"| | HDZ | 23 February 1993 | 7 November 1995 |
Ivica Kostović | style="background-color: Template:Croatian Democratic Union/meta/color" width="2px"| | HDZ | 7 November 1995 | 14 October 1998 |
Milena Žic-Fuchs | style="background-color: Template:Independent/meta/color" width="2px"| | Non-party [nb 1] | 22 February 1999 | 27 January 2000 |
Hrvoje Kraljević | style="background-color: Template:Croatian Social Liberal Party/meta/color" width="2px"| | HSLS | 27 January 2000 | 30 July 2002 |
Gvozden Flego | style="background-color: Template:Social Democratic Party of Croatia/meta/color" width="2px"| | SDP | 30 July 2002 | 23 December 2003 |
- Ministers of Education (1990–2003)
Between 1990 and 1993 the ministry was called Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports. In April 1993 it was renamed Ministry of Culture and Education. In October 1994 the ministry was split into the present-day Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Education and Sports (with Ljilja Vokić appointed as head of the latter). This form remained unchanged until 2003.
Minister | Party | Term start | Term end | |
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Vlatko Pavletić | style="background-color: Template:Croatian Democratic Union/meta/color" width="2px"| | HDZ | 30 May 1990 | 15 April 1992 |
Vesna Girardi-Jurkić | style="background-color: Template:Croatian Democratic Union/meta/color" width="2px"| | HDZ | 15 April 1992 | 18 October 1994 |
Ljilja Vokić | style="background-color: Template:Croatian Democratic Union/meta/color" width="2px"| | HDZ | 18 October 1994 | 4 March 1998 |
Božidar Pugelnik | style="background-color: Template:Croatian Democratic Union/meta/color" width="2px"| | HDZ | 4 March 1998 | 5 October 1999 |
Nansi Ivanišević | style="background-color: Template:Croatian Democratic Union/meta/color" width="2px"| | HDZ | 5 October 1999 | 27 January 2000 |
Vladimir Strugar | style="background-color: Template:Croatian Peasant Party/meta/color" width="2px"| | HSS | 27 January 2000 | 23 December 2003 |
- Ministers of Science, Education and Sports (2003–present)
Minister | Party | Term start | Term end | |
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Dragan Primorac | style="background-color: Template:Independent/meta/color" width="2px"| | Non-party [nb 2] | 23 December 2003 | 6 July 2009 |
Radovan Fuchs | style="background-color: Template:Croatian Democratic Union/meta/color" width="2px"| | HDZ | 6 July 2009 | 23 December 2011 |
Željko Jovanović | style="background-color: Template:Social Democratic Party of Croatia/meta/color" width="2px"| | SDP | 23 December 2011 | 11 June 2014 |
Vedran Mornar | style="background-color: Template:Independent/meta/color" width="2px"| | Non-party [nb 3] | 11 June 2014 | 22 January 2016 |
Predrag Šustar | style="background-color: Template:Croatian Democratic Union/meta/color" width="2px"| | HDZ | 22 January 2016 | 19 October 2016 |
Pavo Barišić | style="background-color: Template:Croatian Democratic Union/meta/color" width="2px"| | HDZ | 19 October 2016 | Incumbent |
Notes
- nb 1. ^ Milena Žic-Fuchs was appointed in 1999 as a non-party minister within the cabinet quota of HDZ.
- nb 2. ^ Dragan Primorac was originally appointed as a non-party minister in December 2003 in the HDZ-dominated Sanader cabinet. While in office he formally joined HDZ in September 2007. In July 2009 he resigned from his ministerial post to run in the December 2009 presidential election as an independent candidate. Because of his decision not to endorse HDZ's official party candidate Andrija Hebrang, his party membership was rescinded in November 2009.
- nb 3. ^ Vedran Mornar was appointed in 2014 as a non-party minister within the cabinet quota of SDP.
References
- ^ Blažević, Robert (2015): Upravna znanost, p. 284. ISBN 9789538034039
"...(on day 19. February 2015)." - ^ http://www.mfin.hr/hr/drzavni-proracun-2014-godina
- ^ http://www.mfin.hr/hr/drzavni-proracun-2015-godina