Curriculum vitae

Name: Ivana Solar

Date of birth: 21th April 1983

Place of birth: Osijek, Croatia

Nationality: Croatian

Adress: Cvjetna 13
31000 Osijek, Croatia

Language
spoken: Croatian, English

Phone: +385-91-888-32-48

E-mail: ivanasolar@net.hr

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Education
● High school, 1998 - 2002, Osijek, II. Gymnasium (language orientation with emphasis on English)

● Faculty, 2002 - 2011 - Osijek, acquired title - administrative lawyer, J.J. Strossmayer University,
Faculty of Law, professional three-year study/administrative law

Non-formal education
● eCommerc Academy, Digital marketing and SEO, April 2021.
- Program for expanding knowledge in the field of digital marketing when it comes to advertising on
social networks and promotion of online stores. Also background SEO analysis

● “Advance European Media Training”, 2004. – 2005., - Portogruaro/Milano, Italy/ Opatija,

Croatia
- Advanced training program for 25 competition-selected journalists and other marketing and media
experts from all over Croatia, which aimed to provide them with extensive and advanced knowledge
related to working in and with the media, skills in the field of marketing and PR management. The
training was fully funded by the Unidea group and supported by the Jacques Maritain Institute (Italy), AP
com, the world's largest news agency, and ICEJ, the International Institute of Journalism.  The training
program also included an Italian language course.

● “External Relations of the European Commission and policy for new members”, February 2006.,
Brussels/Belgium
- Training was organized by the European Journalism Center and included visits to EU institutions based
in Brussels, accreditation at the European Parliament's press center and talks with representatives to
expand EU membership for Eastern Europe.
● “MediaNET”, May 2004. – August 2005. - Croatia
- Training for journalists - TV production, internet, radio - organized by the NGO "Zamir" from Zagreb
with the financial support of the EU.

● “Student Voice 2004” – "Diversity and Minority Reporting", Octobar 2004. , Hvar, Croatia
- “Student Voice 2004.”  was the eighth annual conference organized by the Faculty of Political Science
in Zagreb for students and young journalists from around the world aimed at educating about human
rights and gender democracy.

● “Student Voice 2005” – “Media as Entertainment Industry”, Octobar 2005. , Hvar, Croatia
- The ninth edition of "Student Voice", also organized by the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb, was
dedicated entirely to the way the media works and profitability, as well as the possibilities of using the
media and the entire entertainment industry to promote companies and their products. Participants were
young journalists, professors and marketing professionals from around the world.

Work experience
● Journalist , “Glas Slavonije”- Osijek, Octobar 2002. – May 2021.
- “Glas Slavonije” are informative-political daily newspapers with aim of informing citizens in the area of
eastern Croatia and beyond about important events for the community. My responsibilities determined by the
workplace are collecting data, writing articles, columns, related primarily to education, health and related EU
processes/projects. 

Since 2018, through the StoryEditor platform, I have also been positioning journalistic texts on website
through search engine optimization (SEO).

URL: www.glas-slavonije.hr

● Head of trade/ administrative affairs, ELGI trade, Osijek, Croatia, July 2016. – March 2021.
- As the owner of a trade, I ran an entirely independent business whose main activity was self-service
appliances, which includes the procurement of raw materials, invoicing, contacts with suppliers, preparation
for bookkeeping and tax administration. In my work, I used administrative and administrative-legal skills on a
daily basis, and their implementation in a computer system.

● Correspondent, “Novi list”, Rijeka, Croatia, August 2003. – January 2012.

- “Novi list”are informative-political daily newspapers that are published with the aim of informing people in
Istria, Kvarner and beyond about important events for the community. My job-specific responsibilities were
to collect data based on which I wrote articles, columns, reports, and reports.

URL: http://www.novilist.hr

● Correspondent, “STINA news agency” – Split, Croatia, July 2004. - March 2005.
- “STINA” agency through a mailing list distributes information related to the issues of national
minorities in the Republic of Croatia with the financial support of the EU. My task as a correspondent
was to report on national minorities in eastern Croatia. I sent the finished texts by e-mail to the editor in
Split.URL: www.stina.hr
● Content creator, “Delta-net d.o.o.”- Zagreb, Croatia
Octobar 2006. – January 2008.
- Deltanet was engaged in advertising real estate throughout Croatia through the website www.deltanet.hr and
distribution of advertisements related to the sale of real estate in print media. My task was to write once a
week and e-mail the text on a monthly schedule of the agreed topic related to real estate.

Volunteering
● Promotor, “Youth Club Osijek”, Croatia, March 2003. - January 2008.

● Journalist/lector, Environmental Press Centar, Osijek August 2003. – November 2005.

● PR, “International festival Forbidden Fruits of civil society” – Osijek, July/August 2003.

● Promotor, “Inova-gim” gymnastics club, November 2009. - now

Skills
●  advanced knowledge of English in speech and writing

● driving licence

● MS Office, Shall Newsroom, TED text editor, Story editor, WordPress basic

● blogging

● digital photography/newspaper photography

● digital marketing/social media

● visibility of projects financed from EU funds

● office management skills and preparation for bookkeeping (records of accounts, employees, turnover,
bank transfer payment)

Hobbies and personal interests

- classical literature, recreational hiking, gymnastics, travel