The economic growth in Croatia in the first decade of the 21st century, which was especially expressed through the expansion of the real estate market, and the modernization of the overall Croatian legislative system, strongly stimulated by the process of accession to the European Union, have created a new framework for land administration institutions in Croatia. Therefore, in the past five years, respective legal acts have been modernized and business processes re-engineered, especially in the area of the real estate (cadastre) and ownership (land registry in municipal courts) registration.
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The economic growth in Croatia in the first decade of the 21st century, which was especially expressed through the expansion of the real estate market, and the modernization of the overall Croatian legislative system, strongly stimulated by the process of accession to the European Union, have created a new framework for land administration institutions in Croatia. Therefore, in the past five years, respective legal acts have been modernized and business processes re-engineered, especially in the area of the real estate (cadastre) and ownership (land registry in municipal courts) registration. These changes have been implemented in the establishment of the Real Property Registration and Cadastre Joint Information System, which is in the initial implementation phase. To be able to create and maintain such a redefined Croatian land administration environment, the question of existence of educated and trained personnel, especially surveyors, lawyers, [information technology] IT experts, and well trained technicians, has been detected as the key question to the whole reform.
At the end of 2010, the new curriculum for geodetic and geo information technician has been adopted which will be implemented in 2012 in the high schools teaching surveying professionals. As a continuation to these efforts, the State Geodetic Administration of Croatia has, within the scope of its responsibilities, launched a project to develop and modernize other geodetic curricula. In the frame of the Integrated Land Administration System Project, activities have been defined and launched in order to define and implement a new high school profile - 'cadastre-land registry technician' as well as support the modernization of surveyors university curriculum in Croatia.
This paper describes the present situation and needs of the society, new professional profiles, and respective projects which aim to support the development of preconditions for education of new modern surveying professionals who will be able to satisfy the needs of private and public sector in the field of land administration in Croatia.
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