WORK EXPERIENCE

2000 – CURRENT
College professor
Polytechnic in Pozega

2019 – CURRENT
Associate professor (External cooperation)
Barbara University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social
Pisker Sciences

2021 – CURRENT
CONTACT
National Erasmus+ programme project evaluator
 bpisker@vup.hr (External cooperation)
Agency for mobility and EU programmes
 (+385) 98632002

2014 – 2020
Erasmus+ coordinator
Polytechnic in Pozega

2017
National Erasmus+ expert in the field of higher
education (External cooperation)
Agency for mobility and EU programmes

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

2005 – 2010
PhD - Social Sciences / Sociology
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences

1995 – 2000
MA - Social Sciences / Sociology and Croatian culture
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Croatian Studies

PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Full list available at:
https://www.bib.irb.hr/pretraga?operators=and|Pisker,
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CERTIFICATIONS
Certifications
◦ Stakeholders role in Quality Assurance System: ESG standards emphases / Intelekta, Zagreb,
Croatia (2016)
◦ European Business Competence Licence - Level A & B / Kuratorium Wirtschaftskompetenz für
Europa, International Centre of EBC*L, Wien, Austria (2015)
◦ E-Learning Academy - program E-Learning Tutoring / Croatian Academic and Research Network
(Carnet), Zagreb, Croatia (2013-14)
◦ Introduction to the system of EU projects and EU funds / PJR Consulting, Zagreb, Croatia (2013)

HONOURS AND AWARDS

Honours and awards
◦ Best reviewer award: International Conference on Digital Economy, Springer publishing - Lecture
Notes in Business Information Processing (2022)
◦ International & national projects category award: Polytechnic in Pozega, Croatia (2017)
◦ Best paper presentation award: Ontario College for Research and Development, International
Conference on Social Science, Arts, Business and Education, Venice, Italy (2016)
◦ Professional and scientific work award: Programme of public needs in education and science in
Pozesko-slavonska county, Croatia (2008)

PROJECTS
EU projects coordination & implementation

• Development of R&D Capacities of The Silesian University in Opava

ESI C2.02.269/0.0/18_054/0014696 (2020-2022)
Implementation activities (Foreign Expert role)
• Erasmus+ projects
KA102, KA103, KA107, KA108 & KA202 (2014-2020)
Coordinating activities
• STEM Eco & Energetics 
ESF UP.03.1.1.02 (2019-2020)
Implementation activities
• Binary code 110 
ESF UP.04.2.1.03.0032. (2018-2019)
Implementation activities
• Large Strides of Mini Entrepreneurs 
IPA IV HR.1.1.11-0331 (2015-2016)
Coordination activities
• Students Business Incubator: by the Knowledge to the Workplace 
IPA IV 4.1.1.1.05.01.c19 (2014-2015)
Implementation activities
• Increasing employability in Pozega-Slavonia and Koprivnica County 
IPA IV 1.3.2.01.02.c12 (2010-2011)
Coordination activities
• Local partnerships for employment - Phase 2
CARDS 2004 (2005-2007)
Implementation activities
ERASMUS/ERASMUS+ SCHOOLARSHIPS
Erasmus/Erasmus+ schoolarships
◦ University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (STA, 2023)
◦ Royal Thimphu College, Thimphu, Bhutan (STA, 2022)
◦ Universidade Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil (STA, 2022)
◦ Mehmet Akif Ersoy Unviversity, Burdur, Turkey (STA, 2021)
◦ Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Grodno, Belarus (STA online, 2021)
◦ Fachhochschule Burgenland GmbH, Eisenstadt, Austria (STA, 2019)
◦ Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece (STT, 2018)
◦ Uzhhorod National University, Uzhhorod, Ukraine (STA, 2018)
◦ Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany (STA, 2017)
◦ Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, (STT, 2016)
◦ Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences, Ludwigshafen, Germany (STA, 2015)
◦ Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands (STT, 2014)
◦ International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain (STT, 2013)

ERASMUS+ CONFERENCES & SEMINARS

Erasmus+ conferences & seminars
◦ Erasmus+ TCA "Exchange of good practices among IROs on ICM related issues", Larnaca, Cyprus
(2019)
◦ Erasmus coordinators annual meeting: "Strengthening implementation and absorption capacity",
Rijeka, Croatia (2019)
◦ Erasmus+ Annual Conference on Higher Education, Zagreb, Croatia (2018)
◦ From Erasmus to Erasmus+: a story of 30 years, Zagreb, Croatia (2017)
◦ Erasmus+ Annual Conference on Higher Education, Zagreb, Croatia (2016)
◦ Erasmus+ contact seminar, Dubrovnik, Croatia (2015)