Marko Kovacic

Asst prof. Dr Marko Kovacic is a former youth worker turned academic currently acting as a vice-dean for research and international cooperation research at the Bernays University of Applied Sciences where he teaches classes in youth studies and methodology. He is a founder and lecturer at the first academic youth studies program in Croatia, run at the University of Rijeka. Kovacic is a member of the European Pool of Youth researchers, a body jointly governed by the European Commission and Council of Europe, and he was a first Youth Wiki correspondent for Croatia. In the last 14 years, he has been engaged in most national and European youth policy processes. Marko authored more than 70 papers on youth and education and managed numerous youth and education projects. He did his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Graz and holds a PhD in (youth) public policy from the University of Ljubljana, accompanied with two MAs – one in political science from CEU in Budapest and another one in public policy from the University of Zagreb, where he also acquired his BA in political science. Also, he was a visiting researcher at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.