Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb, Croatia
welcomes guests from all over the World

WELCOME information for guest professors/researchers/staff

1. BILATERAL AGREEMENTS

Most guest professors arriving to their study/research visit to our Faculty arrive trough signed bilateral agreements on cooperation.

All provisions are proscribed with the agreement on cooperation and guest professors receive further instructions.

In most cases, guest professor are entitled to accommodation (with some exceptions pending on the respective agreement, e.g. University of Pecs).

IMPORTAINT: If you are entitled to any sort of payments (grants, per diems, etc.) you need to have OIB *** (personal identification number).

If your home institution requires the  INVITATION LETTER please contact your academic partner at our Faculty, fill out the form and send it to email: tsveljo@ffzg.hr as to be signed by the responsible person.

2. ERASMUS+ Please contact your home Office for International Cooperation. Welcome information

3. OTHER PROGRAMS, SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANDS, STIPENDS, etc.

Pending on the program requirements.

Internationalisation

Visit of Prof. Beata Grochala-Woźniak  UNIC alliance 

Prof. Beata Grochala-Woźniak, PhD, from the Institute of Polish Philology and Speech Therapy at the Faculty of Philology, University of Łódź, visited the Chair of Polish Language and Literature of the Department of West Slavic Studies within the framework of the UNIC alliance programme.

The key components of her mobility visit included observing Polish language classes at different levels of the Polish Studies programme and conducting a survey among Polish Studies students, thereby enabling Croatian students of Polish Studies to contribute to valuable research activities. As an observer, Prof. Grochala-Woźniak also attended language practice classes as well as linguistics and grammar courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels in order to examine teaching techniques used in the process of teaching Polish as a foreign language.

This focus stems from Prof. Grochala-Woźniak’s role as the head of the postgraduate programme Teaching Polish as a Foreign/Second Language. One of her principal research interests is the methodology employed by university instructors of Polish at different institutions, including Croatia’s only Polish Studies programme. The survey conducted on students’ grammatical competence and their use of linguistic metalanguage will serve as material for a larger research project investigating these phenomena among students of Polish Studies programmes outside Poland.

During her visit, which took place from 4 to 8 May 2026, Prof. Grochala-Woźniak met with members of the Chair of Polish Language. Their discussions focused on ongoing research projects as well as future opportunities for cooperation, many of which are facilitated through the UNIC alliance.

Prof. Beata Grochala-Woźniak has previously visited the Polish Studies programme and participated in the International Scientific Conference Comparative Slavic Linguocultural Topics II. She will also take part this year in the third edition of KOMPAS, to be held in Dubrovnik in October and organized by the Chair of Polish Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of Croatian and Comparative Phraseology of the Croatian Philological Society.

Assistant Professor Miroslav Hrdlička, PhD
Department of West Slavic Languages and Literatures

Erasmus+ at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb

Professor Sanja Brekalo Pelin, Ph.D. Head of Studies at the Official Language School Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Spain

As an English teacher and head of the Official Language School in Rivas-Vaciamadrid, I had the opportunity to visit the Centre for Foreign Languages at the University of Zagreb in December 2025 as part of a job-shadowing programme…

As I am Croatian myself, I was especially pleased to establish this connection, which later inspired me to organize a study visit for a group of students from my language school to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in April 2026.  Continue reading….

Visiting Professors from the University of Lodz UNIC cooperation

As part of the cooperation within the UNIC University Alliance, Department of Romance Studies welcomed two visiting professors from the University of Lodz, Poland, from 3 to 14 March 2026.

Prof. Anna Wendorff, PhD, and Prof. Witold Sobczak, PhD, visited the Department of Romance Studies, where they took part in several academic activities and meetings with colleagues. On 10 March 2026, a meeting was held in the Aula Cervantes with the teaching staff of the Spanish Language and Literature programme and the coordinator of the Aula Cervantes, providing an opportunity for discussion and exchange of experiences in teaching and research.

During their stay, both professors delivered guest lectures for students and faculty. Prof. Anna Wendorff presented the lecture “Las vanguardias literarias: estudio de caso de Oliverio Girondo” within the course Affirmation of Spanish American Literature in the World, while Prof. Witold Sobczak delivered the lecture “La expresión de posterioridad en el español contemporáneo.” 

Their visit contributed to strengthening international academic cooperation and further enriching the teaching and research activities of the Department of Romance Studies and the UNIC network.

Spring School ”Balkan Route(s). Studying through European Borderlands”

From March 19 to 22, 2024, a spring school “Balkan Route(s). Studying through European Borderlands” was held at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, as part of the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program (BIP). The Department of Sociology was the host and co-organizer of the school, as part of the program of celebrating the 150th anniversary of the faculty.

The school was successfully attended by students of the Master’s program “International Migration and Intercultural Relations” from the University of Osnabrück, Germany, students of the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies from the University of Padova, Italy, and students of the Department of Sociology and the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.

The promotional video is created by the cameraman, director and editor Miran Krčadinac (company Felix), and the screenwriter is Drago Župarić-Iljić.

Guest professor Andrea Ravignani from the Sapienza University, Roma held a lecture The origins of rhythm and vocal learning at the Department of Phonetics on February, 19. 2024.

Visit of Vice President of Bulgaria

H.E. Mrs Iliana Iotova Vice President of Bulgaria on October 27th, 2022. Donation of books.

Institut Camoes, Portugal

Agreement on cooperation Institut Camoes – Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences signed on May 27, 2022.

Humboldt fellow dr Beghelli: research project

Dr. Michelle Beghelli graduated from the University of Bologna and acquired her PhD in Early Medieval Archaeology at the University of Mainz. Her thesis was awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. She received doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships, has worked in international research projects, taught and participated in conferences in several European Countries, and authored and co-edited a number of scientific papers and books.

In 2021-2022, she will work at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, thanks to a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, carrying out her project «Elite networks and mobility of building craftsmen. Shaping the European landscape, 7th-9th centuries».

Contacts: mbeghell@m.ffzg.hr; mibeghel@uni-mainz.de

Zhejiang University, China (visit 06.06.2019.)

Professor WANG Ning Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Changjiang Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Tsinghua University in China.

(Lectures in March 2019.)

University of Cincinnati , USA (visit 10.03 .2017)

University of Tokushima, Japan  (visit 10.3.2017)

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