Members of the BrAIn Project Research Team at the Conference “Media and the Family in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”

Members of the research team of the BrAIn project participated in the scientific conference “Media and the Family in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”, organised by the Department of Communication Studies at the Catholic University of Croatia. The conference took place on 10 December 2025 at the Catholic University of Croatia. The research team presented selected findings from the study “Use of…

Dr Ana Žulec Ivanković Presents at the 32nd Annual Conference of Croatian Psychologists

Dr Ana Žulec Ivanković, senior research assistant at the University Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Croatia (CUC), took part in the 32nd Annual Conference of Croatian Psychologists, held in Split from 5 to 8 November 2025.She presented a paper entitled “Instagram vs. Reality: Is High-School Students’ Satisfaction with Their Appearance Shaped by Their Instagram Stories?”, in which…

Members of the BrAIn Project Research Group Participated in the 32nd Annual Conference of Croatian Psychologists

Members of the Catholic University of Croatia (CUC) research group on the BrAIn project, Assoc. Prof. Marina Merkaš, PhD, and Ana Žulec Ivanković, PhD, participated in the 32nd Annual Conference of Croatian Psychologists, held in Split from 5 to 8 November. At the conference, they presented selected activities of the CUC research team and the results of studies conducted within the BrAIn project…

New chapter from Digit-HeaL Laboratory

We are pleased to announce that the book chapter Improving Explanation Measures Inside the Decision-Making Process to Increase the Potential of AI Applications in Healthcare, authored by Luka Poslon, MA, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anto Čartolovni, members of our Digital healthcare ethics laboratory (Digit-HeaL) at Catholic University of Croatia, has just been published in the prestigious international…

Assistant Poslon in the radio program "Cosmos and Ethos"

The radio program “Cosmos and Ethos,” aired on October 30, 2025, on the Third Program of Croatian Radio, featured Luka Poslon, a member of the Laboratory for Ethics of Digital Technologies in Healthcare and an assistant at the Catholic University of Croatia. Under the guidance of host and program author Marito Mihovil Letica, the discussion examined the concept of fairness in the development and…

Researchers from the “AntibacHip” Project Participated in the FEMS EUROMAT 2025 Conference in Spain

The leader of the project Development of an Innovative Antibacterial Material for Hip Endoprosthesis – AntibacHip, Professor Tamara Holjevac Grgurić, Ph.D., and research associates Karla Knežević, univ. mag. chem., and Lucija Lasić, univ. mag. chem., participated with a presentation titled Cu modification of biomedical Ti-6Al-4V alloy at the FEMS EUROMAT 2025 conference held from 14 to 18…

Assistant Poslon at the Bioethics Summer Schools in Šibenik

Our Research Assistant Luka Poslon, from the Digital Healthcare Ethics Laboratory (Digit-HeaL) at Catholic University of Croatia, served as a lecturer at the international as well as the national editions of the Summer School of Bioethics and Human Rights, held in Šibenik and organized by the World Youth Alliance Croatia in cooperation with the World Youth Alliance.The international edition of…

Research Workshop on Children and Youth Well-being and the Use of Digital Technology Held as Part of the BrAIn Project

From July 9 to 11, 2025, the Catholic University of Croatia hosted a research workshop as part of the BrAIn project – Application of Artificial Intelligence-Based Digital Technologies in Education, with a specific focus on the well-being of children and youth in relation to their use of digital technologies.The workshop brought together members of the BrAIn research team from the Catholic…

Communication Scholars Conduct Seminar on “Fact-Checking Religious Topics” for Clergy and Parish Educators of the Diocese of Gospić-Senj

According to Lika Online, the seminar titled “Fact-Checking Religious Topics” was recently held at the Pastoral Centre in Lički Osik for priests, catechists, and parish collaborators of the Diocese of Gospić-Senj. The seminar was organized in cooperation between the Diocese and the University Department of Communication Studies at the Catholic University of Croatia, as part of the project KAT –…

Professor Merkaš gave a lecture "Digital Technology in the Family"

On Tuesday, May 6, 2025, as part of the celebration of the Week of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Rijeka, a promotion of the journal of the Department of Psychology, Psychological Topics, was held, where issues one, two and three, volume 33, published during 2024, were promoted. The journal was presented by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sc. Barbara Rončević Zubković in…