Center is an NGO that operates in the field of teacher trainings in gifted education, workshops for gifted children and counseling for parents. Center organized many applied activities, six big projects supported by national and local educational institutions and international conference for 11 countries in transition “National networks for the gifted” supported by Soros foundation and CBO (Nijmegen, The Netherlands).

The staff of the Center carried out more than one hundred workshops for gifted children during the school year. This enriched extra-curricular program complying with the needs of schools and parents for alternative methods of working with gifted children which often goes over the possibility within the regular school system. Considering more frequent difficulties gifted children faced in regular classroom, this program has distinctively preventive character.

Also it satisfies special educational needs of gifted children in planning and realization of teaching challenges on principles of enrichment, project teaching, as well as deepness and extension of distinctive interests that is congruent to the level of psychological and cognitive development of the gifted child.

In – service teacher trainings and educations:

• One-day seminars (theoretical -practical part)
• Projects (longer durability which include identification & organization of the program )
• Demonstration of special didactics, brain games and educational materials for the gifted.
• Organizing specialized and enriched programs, workshops and summer schools.

Playgroups and workshops for the gifted:

• Playgroups  for pre-school children (4 -7 years)
• Workshops for primary school children (7-10 years)
• Workshops for gifted children with special needs

In 2009. Center is proposed, as one of the key institutional resources in the field of early child development and education in Croatia, to be included in Directory of human, institutional and technical recourses in countries of Middle and East Europe and former Soviet Union (UNICEF & ISSA project).

About the NGO founder &program coordinator:

• She is a psychologist, ECHA specialist, with twenty four years of working experience in educational system.
• Croatian Psychological Association has assigned her in 2003. annual psychological award “Marko Marulić” for remarkably valuable contribution in applied psychology.
• She was lectured two courses on University of Zagreb: Psychology of the Gifted and Methods & techniques in psychological assessment of giftedness.
• She is the author of five handbooks and editor of four booklets