P.O.I.N.T. Association

P.O.I.N.T. Association (POINT is an acronym in Croatian for "Promoting education, informing, journalism and technologies") was founded in 2004 and since then it gathers students, youth, and activists around platforms which deliver independent culture, non-institutional education and humanitarian services for a benefit to the local community and wider throughout the region and the country. It frequently does so by innovative use of new technologies and modern paradigms, as well as engaging in citizen journalism, promoting education, e-learning and new technologies, especially driven by information and communication technologies. The association has been one of the most active organizations in Križevci, Croatia and its surrounding by completing in the last 15 years more than a hundred projects (around 10 per year) and initiatives. In 2015, POINT Association was awarded by the City of Križevci for promoting non-formal education and independent culture, informing and journalism and contemporary art, new technologies and media. Some examples of the association's notable accomplishments are Culture Shock Festival, a festival with tenths of art, cultural and educational events organized for one or two months every year in Križevci now for 15 years (https://www.c-shock.org); Portal Krizevci.info, a respected news portal which covers local events (https://www.krizevci.info); Five4Kids, an annual charitable action for supporting a local school and an organization for intellectually disabled children and youth; Study Fair, an event in which university students share their experience on studies with high-school pupils of local schools (https://www.sajamstudija.info); Crisium Code, a platform for tagging tourist sights of Križevci with QR tiles which links to the web lexicon Krizevci.eu and form a unique tourist guide of the town (http://crisium-code.udruga-point.hr). POINT Association counts 64 members with diverse skills, interests and backgrounds, of which more than 50% are university educated (8 hold a PhD degree).