Top scholarship for top students 2008

The ceremony signing of a contract between the partner companies of the campaign "Top scholarship for top students" took place on Wednesday, March 19 in the Golden Hall of the Croatian History Institute in Zagreb..
The project of giving scholarship "Top scholarship for Top students" the weekly magazine tjednik Nacional in collaboration with partners has been doing for the seventh year in a row, and the partner companies in this campaign are INA, Ingra, Podravka, Diners Club, Vipnet and HRT. The purpose of this campaign is to reward the excellence of the best students in Croatia with the scholarship of 40,000.00 kunas. Top winners do not have to return the scholarship nor have they any obligations to the partners of the campaign. According to the President of the Management Board of NCL Media Group Ivo Pukanić, Croatia can sustain on knowledge, and the clever and competent people are the most important thing we have. This has been proven by former winners of scholarships who did not betray our trust.
The scholarship fund totals 1,200.000 kunas the same amount like last year and the Top scholarship is still the biggest scholarship in the country.
Dragan Habdija, member of the Management Board of Podravka signed the contract on behalf of Podravka and after the signing, he pointed out that Podravka especially pays attention to people, brands and consumers. This is exactly the reason why Podravka needs excellent people and by investing in the development of young scientists and researchers we have been continuously contributing to the development of society and the entire community. Therefore, Podravka has been supporting this action since the beginning.
Besides the aforementioned partner companies that will reward the 30 students, the four Zadar companies have been taking part for the third time in a row – they are the regional partners who give scholarships to two students of the Zadar University. Thus the number of Top scholarship is thirtytwo (32).
This campaign is supported by the Ministry of science, education and sports, the Ministry of economics, work and entrepreneurism and by the Croatian Economic Chamber and by the president of the Republic of Croatia RH Stjepan Mesić.
The ceremony scholarship receiving takes place at the end of the academic year for the selected Top students and the Croatian president, the prime minister and many members of the government attend this ceremony and thus give their support to this noble campaign. This year the ceremony will take place at the Westin Hotel in Zagreb on July 2.