1. Exhibition by painter NEDELJKO TINTOR  – “Homage to Croatian and European Artists” – dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the European Movement International.

Nedeljko Tintor is a Croatian painter who has dedicated his work to the correlation between Croatian and European painters. Establishing a dialogue based on the portraits of artists and their work, he tried to find the similarities between his own work and that of some other artists. His work refers to Old Masters such as Rafael, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Rembrandt, contemporaries like Rodin, Cezanne, Gauguin, Dali, Picasso, and Croatian artists, namely Karas, Raškaj, Kraljevic, Racic, Becic, Stancic, Meštrovic.
 
2. The European Award “European Speech of the Year” has been presented since 2003 by the European Movement Croatia to reward individuals for their speeches and accomplishments achieved in the framework of Croatia’s integration in the EU and the process of affirmation of European values.

This year the award was also dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of the European Movement International and presented to PhD. Pero Lucin, Rector of the University of Rijeka. Mr. Lucin presented his speech entitled “What European Union brings to Croatia in education fields?” in the Europe House Zagreb on 21 February 2008.

The award was presented to PhD. Pero Lucin on May 29, 2008 by Siniša Grgic, President of European Movement Croatia and Nataša Owens, Vice-president of European Movement Croatia.

To this day, this award has been presented to Neven Mimica, former Croatian Minister of European integrations (2003), Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader (2004), H. E. Jan Patrik, Slovak ambassador in Croatia (2005), President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić – (2006) and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration – (2007).

3. The European Movement Croatia, in co-operation with University of Oslo, organised the round table on 6th of June 2008 on the Congress of Europe and the 60th Anniversary of the EMI: 

Congress of Europe and 60th Anniversary of European Movement International

Building the Europe of the Future Together
The Cultural Revival Dialog – Zagreb 2008
The website http://WiKeyPoDia.org

About the Project: “The future will either be the inspired product of a great cultural revival, or there will be no future,” wrote Aurelio Peccei, founder and first President of the Club of Rome, in 1981. And Albert Einstein’s familiar observation, that we cannot solve our problems by thinking in the same way as we did when we created them, expresses a similar idea, ie: that typical contemporary issues, be they global, such as environmental degradation, or local, such as the rising costs of healthcare, can only be solved by a new way of acting and thinking.
The question remains: how will this abstract and latent possibility – that of finding and following a new direction – be brought about in practical terms?  
The key point dialogue is a technique developed at the University of Oslo, whose purpose is to facilitate such development. The goal of a key point dialogue is to discover the ‘key point’—an insight that is sufficiently strong and profound to initiate ‘a great cultural revival’. 

To ignite and energize the dialogue we have organiseda an inter-cultural meeting where we invited Master Li Jun Feng, the Headmaster of Sheng Zhen Qigong, and his daughter Li Jing, who introduced us to an uncommon way of acting and thinking. The works of quantum physicist Werner Heisenberg, futurologist Aurelio Peccei, medical researcher Werner Kollath and author and social critic Aldous Huxley provided a suitable context for this meeting of world views, which allowed us to embed our guests’ seemingly esoteric ideas in contemporary, mainly scientific thinking. Insights into the practice of Sheng Zhen Qigong, of which our guests are the most respected teachers, broadened our understanding of human and cultural possibilities that may now be available to us.
The dialogue goes through four stages called Awareness, Responsibility, Freedom and Renaissance, during which all of us had the opportunity to share related thoughts, experiences, reservations or enthusiasm. The messages and impulses created in our dialogue will subsequently spread and grow in Croatia and worldwide through Internet and other media.
About the Author: Dino Karabeg, Ph.D. in computer science/algorithm theory, University of California at San Diego, 1988. M.S. in oceanography/environmental systems modeling, University of Zagreb, 1979. B.S. in electrical engineering/control theory, University of Zagreb, 1977. Main research interests: Knowledge federation, information design. Work experience: Associate Professor at the University of Oslo Computer Science Dept., 1992 – current.
Renata Bacic and  Dino KarabegEuropean Movement Croatia and University of Oslo.
4. European Movement Croatia and JEF Croatia organised a viewing of and debate on the Congress of Europe.

European Movement Croatia