Economic school Katarina Zrinski, NCEE Partner School, is a private secondary school that educates young people through implementation of modern teaching methods for successful integration in the business world.

Economic School Katarina Zrinski is:

• a member of Education group Zrinski
• a part of an Institutional system for E4E Education for entrepreneurship
• a partner school of the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE), USA
• a methodical centre
• a central office of Training Firms
• an international partner in developing curriculum for Training Firms
• an organizer of the International fair of Training Firms "PVT Zagreb"
• the first one that started with its own programs for the school subject Business of Training Firms

Economic School Katarina Zrinski was founded in 1997. It has developed a specific approach of enabling its students, which is directed towards acquiring knowledge and skills necessary to run a small and middle-sized business. The school is open for those who want to acquire a high-quality education for the vocation of economist. The process of education is carried out via lecture classes for a small number of pupils (up to 18 pupils per class). This enables a more individualized approach in teaching and it facilitates students' learning of the subject matter. Desks in the classrooms are positioned in a form of a semicircle, thus enabling optimal cooperation of pupils and professors, making at the same time the implementation of modern teaching methods and mentorship much easier.

The quality of our programs and work is confirmed and acknowledged by the National Council on Economic Education in the USA, and we are also the only partner school of this largest association for economic education outside the USA.

The school has an open door policy for those who want quality education for economist profession within the curriculum of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, but also in addition to special programs and benefits:

• entire classes consist of small groups (up to 18 students), which provides individualization of courses and thus significantly facilitates learning and curriculum realisation
• classes begin at 8:45 a.m. and end at 3:55 p.m. with lunch break from 1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
• in order to make it easier for the students, the courses are conducted in block classes
• learning of two foreign languages is obligatory, whereas third language learning is optional
• Business of Training Firms is the subject which has been developed in our school, and has been conducted throughout the entire four-year education
• ICT in Business of Training Firms is a new subject introduced in 4th grade

What is offered by us?

• acquiring of the latest theoretical and practical knowledge in the areas of entrepreneurship,
• participating in the International fair of Training Firms,
• project teaching in the country and abroad,
• the best education according to the program that is recognized in the EU and the USA,
• special benefits for the top athletes.

Students are sent each year to experience practical education for a period of one week. During the school year four field trips are organized. At the end of each month score lists are made on the basis of grades, attendance and participation in extracurricular activities. Students who achieve enough points on a monthly basis tend to be specially rewarded, and each year excellent students are sent to an award trip. In classes modern teaching instruments are used as well. In classrooms, desks have been arranged in a form of a semicircle which allows optimal cooperation of students and teachers, and also facilitates the implementation of modern teaching methods and a mentoring approach. In our school every first Wednesday in a month is a Business Wednesday when students get the opportunity to apply their knowledge in a simulated business environment, which means that all students and teachers must come to school dressed as business people.

The School has a 14-year-old tradition and a well-established and successful national and international partnership which includes Business English Courses in Oxford, UK, German courses in Lindenberg, Germany, and activities performed during the International Education Week together with the students and teachers from the partner schools. The School is a partner school with the economic schools from Celje (Slovenia), Verona (Italy), Pecs (Hungary), Regensburg (Germany) and Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina). During the course of their second year, the students spend two weeks in St. Joseph's King's School Oxford (UK) improving and developing their English language skills. The students get their certificates upon the completion of the course and the grades and credits which they obtain there become the intrinsic part of their regular English class evaluation card in the School. The same principle applies to the German language courses held for the third grade students in Lindenberg, Germany. Other international projects which were successfully carried out during the previous year include "Ecological Footprint" and "Creative Thinking", the purpose of which was to bring students' work into focus and give them opportunity to learn how to cooperate and work in international environment. They include another project as well, called Leonardo da Vinci Mobility programme which was carried out together with Economic school Regensburg in 2009.