Regulated professions

What

A profession is regulated if you have to hold a specific degree, do special exams, or register with a professional body before you can practise it.

List of the regulated professions in Croatia (in English): https://goo.gl/8VuGwQ

 

How

There are two ways for you to get recognition of your regulated profession.
An automatic system of recognition:
• minimum conditions of professional qualification for 7 professions (doctors of medicine, nurses/general healthcare technicians, doctors of dental medicine, midwifes, masters of pharmacy, veterinarians, architects);
• previous professional experience (industrial, craft and trade activities);
• common standards of competence.
All other regulated professions demand the general recognition system. You must prove that you have the appropriate education, additional knowledge and skills, work experience, and sometimes additional conditions as well (such as knowledge of a language).

Good to know

Instructions for initiating the procedure of recognition of foreign secondary school vocational qualifications (in Croatian): https://www.azoo.hr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2702&Itemid=92

Instructions for initiating the procedure of recognition of foreign higher education qualifications for the purpose of employment (in Croatian: https://goo.gl/7vjCXw

Information on the procedure of recognition of qualifications is available on the website of the Ministry of Science and Education (in Croatian): https://mzo.gov.hr/istaknute-teme/odgoj-i-obrazovanje/priznavanje-inozemnih-strucnih-kvalifikacija-regulirane-profesije/3195

Where

Ministry of Science and Education

Ministry of Science and Education is competent for the recognition of foreign professional qualifications for regulated professions in the field of education and care (educator of preschool children, expert associate in a preschool institution: guidance counsellor, speech therapist), primary school teacher (lower primary school teacher and subject teacher), secondary school teacher (teacher, vocational teacher, teaching associate and educator in a student dormitory) and expert associate in the school institution (guidance counsellor, speech therapist, librarian).

The recognition procedure for the continuation of primary or secondary education is conducted by the educational institution in which the applicant intends to continue his/her education.

Zagreb, Croatia

Agencija za strukovno obrazovanje i obrazovanje odraslih (Agency for Vocational Education and Training and Adult Education)

Amruševa 4

10000 Zagreb
T +385 1 62 74 666

Zagreb, Croatia

Agencija za znanost i visoko obrazovanje (Agency for Science and Higher Education)

Donje Svetice 38

10000 Zagreb
T + 385 1 6274 800