Summer School at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, 2026
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In 2026, BAYHOST awarded funding for the second time to four students from various Bavarian universities (the University of Passau, the University of Regensburg, Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences, and Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences) who participated in the summer school “Copyright Law in the Digital Era: Media, Creativity, and AI” in Zagreb. The summer school took place over two intensive weeks and included lectures, discussions, workshops, field trips, and group events.
“Copyright Law in the Digital Age: Media, Creativity and AI”
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This year’s summer school focused on one of the most topical areas of law in the modern digital society – copyright in an era of rapid technological developments, new forms of content creation and distribution, and the challenges posed by artificial intelligence.
From 29 June to 10 July 2026, the participants at the Zagreb Summer School had the unique opportunity to explore current challenges relating to copyright in the digital age.
The summer school brought together students of law, public administration and computer science, as well as lecturers from Croatia and abroad.
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The participants engaged in an in-depth examination of the legal, ethical and political issues surrounding copyright, the use of AI in creative fields, and what this implies for copyright and legislation.
The programme was characterised by its interdisciplinary approach and offered students the opportunity to examine the issue of copyright from various perspectives.
The first week focused on key aspects of the international and European copyright protection systems. Topics discussed included, for example, international and European copyright frameworks, copyright in the digital environment, copyright and media law, etc.
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The second week focused on the challenges that digital transformation and artificial intelligence pose for copyright law, including the legal perspective on generative AI, the enforcement of copyright and online piracy. A special part of the programme consisted of the panel discussions ‘AI, Art and the Future of Creativity’ and ‘The Future of Copyright in Europe’, in which lecturers and students discussed the future of creativity, the role of artificial intelligence and the direction of the European copyright system.
The programme concluded with a final examination, the presentation of certificates of attendance and a closing reception at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb.
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Outside of the regular programme, participants also attended further events that complemented the content of the individual Summer School sessions. To enable participants to get to know one another better and learn about Zagreb’s culture, a guided city tour, a visit to the Museum of Broken Relationships and a group dinner were organised. The participants particularly appreciated the international exchange with fellow students and lecturers, a friendly environment that provided a great atmosphere for networking, and the opportunity to further develop their skills.
Further information on the schedule and programme for the 2026 summer school:
- 3rd Zagreb Law Summer School: “Copyright Law in the Digital Age – Media, Creativity and AI” (external link, opens in a new window)
- Summer Schools in Europe. Zagreb Law Summer School (external link, opens in a new window)
- Faculty of Law Summer School Held at the University of Zagreb (external link, opens in a new window)
Meeting of the International Offices in Coburg in 2026
Strengthening academic exchange: Croatian and Bavarian international offices meet in Coburg
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From 9 to 10 July 2026 , Coburg University and BAYHOST hosted a meeting of international offices from Croatian and Bavarian universities and faculties. Experts from four Croatian and five Bavarian universities exchanged experiences and discussed new ideas for cooperation.
The meeting was a follow-up to the Croatian-Bavarian Higher Education Day held in Regensburg in 2025, at which new contacts were established at various levels, ranging from university management and international offices to academic representatives across disciplines from the humanities to engineering. In 2026, numerous follow-up projects will be implemented, including the meeting in Coburg.
The meeting of the International Offices was opened by the President of Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Prof. Dr Stefan Gast, who had previously taken part in the Croatian-Bavarian University Day 2025 as a representative of Hochschule Bayern e.V. Coburg University of Applied Sciences already has several years’ experience of cooperation in the field of bioanalytics with the University of Split and the Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences.
The exchange focused on topics that the participants had selected in advance, including staff mobility, short-term programmes such as summer schools, internship exchanges via ERASMUS, as well as cooperation in areas such as research, technology transfer and entrepreneurship.
The Croatian Catholic University presented two examples of good practice: the summer school ‘Practising Resilience – Preparing for Recovery’, focusing on Ukraine, and the start-up CAMP One Health 2026.
The participants discussed specific opportunities for student exchanges for study placements, work placements and summer schools in fields such as bioanalytics, robotics, design, cultural heritage conservation, education and human rights. They identified numerous areas of common ground that are to be developed further following the meeting.
Since 2023, BAYHOST has been placing greater emphasis on Croatia, a move that has been very well received by both sides. The experience gained from existing collaborations has been extremely positive. As Croatia is an EU member state, all European funding programmes for education and science can be utilised. Nevertheless, the potential is far from being fully realised.
Croatian-Bavarian Higher Education Day from 5-6 June 2025 in Regensburg
The University of Regensburg and BAYHOST organized a Croatian-Bavarian Higher Education Day from 5-6 June 2025. The aim of the event was to provide an overview of the Croatian higher education and science landscape, to present successful collaborations and, above all, to initiate new collaborations. The Higher Education Day was opened by the President of the University of Regensburg, Prof. Dr Udo Hebel, the Vice-Rector for International and Interinstitutional Cooperation at the University of Zagreb, Professor Jurica Pavičić, and the Consul General of the Republic of Croatia in Munich, Vladimir Duvnjak. Over 80 lecturers, researchers and university management from six universities and two research institutions from Croatia and nine universities and four universities of applied sciences from Bavaria as well as from the business sector accepted the invitation to the Croatian-Bavarian Higher Education Day (HED).
The HED included a meeting of university management and a meeting of the International Offices. The university managements exchanged views on Internationalization, Digitalisation, AI, Technology Transfer, Sustainability and Diversity. The International Offices discussed current ERASMUS+ formats (Short-Term Mobility for PhD Students, Blended Intensive Programs) as well as the challenges of management and personnel policy in an International Office.
Cooperation proposals from the humanities, social sciences and economics, artificial intelligence and digital transformation, engineering and technology transfer as well as biotechnology and biomedicine were presented and discussed in various specialist working groups. In addition, contacts for joint projects were established in numerous individual discussions. The HED thus involved several levels that are important for international cooperation and are interlinked. The Bavarian Research Alliance and the DAAD informed the participants about suitable European funding programs in Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ in order to realize their project ideas.
The University of Regensburg was particularly well suited to hosting the Croatian-Bavarian Higher Education Day, as it had entered into a strategic partnership with the University of Zagreb in 2024, which is based directly with the university management and supports joint projects in teaching, research, outreach and campus culture. In 2023, the CROATICUM - Center for Croatian Language and Culture was opened at the University of Regensburg, the only institution of its kind in the German-speaking world to date. Since 2023, the joint Center for German and European Studies with a regional focus on Southeast Europe has also been based at the University of Zagreb.
Following this extremely positive response, BAYHOST would like to continue to support the cooperation with Croatia with subject- and topic-specific follow-up events.
Further details on the Croation-Bavarian HED can be found in the program (PDF) (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible)and concept (PDF) (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible).
Pictures of the event
Press reports
- Dan hrvatskoga i bavarskoga visokoga obrazovanja na Sveučilištu u Regensburgu. Press release from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb (external link, opens in a new window)
- Dan hrvatskoga i bavarskoga visokoga obrazovanja na Sveučilištu u Regensburgu. Press release of, University of Zagreb, 11.06.2025 (external link, opens in a new window)
- Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu na Croatian-Bavarian Higher Education Day 2025. Press release Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, dated June 10, 2025 (external link, opens in a new window)
Summer School Zagreb 2025
Law, Society, and Crises of Democracy in the 21 Century
The Zagreb Law Summer School on "Law, Society, and Crises of Democracy in the 21 Century" took place from 23 June to 4 July 2025 in Zagreb (Croatia) and was organized by the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb.
Students of law, political science, sociology, economics or related disciplines were eligible to apply.
Researchers and students from Bavaria at symposium at the University of Zagreb 2024
Innovation in Chemical Sciences
-this was the motto of the symposium held at the University of Zagreb from 19 to 21 November 2024, which was attended by ten scientists and ten doctoral and Master's students from five Bavarian universities.
The symposium offered a wide range of topics, including catalysis, photochemistry and crystallography, and many of the presentations built a bridge to green chemistry, which contributes to the production of materials from renewable raw materials and less environmentally harmful processes. The researchers and students from Bavaria, Zagreb and also from the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse exchanged views on their current research topics in lectures and a poster session and identified numerous common interests.
All contributions were compiled in a Book of Abstracts.
The symposium concluded with a round table on future cooperation opportunities and suitable funding programs. Among other things, the researchers are planning a reciprocal exchange of teachers, researchers and students and a joint Blended Intensive Programme (BiP) in Zagreb.
The universities of Zagreb and Regensburg, which conceived and organised the symposium together with BAYHOST, have been linked by a strategic partnership since 2024, under which additional funding for mobility and projects can be used.
