Entrepreneurs from Bernays

Edward Bernays University of Applied Sciences is very proud of its students who start creating a business network, establishing contacts with future employers and cooperating with the best individuals, experts, agencies, research institutes and companies from the very first year.

Our alumni often go into business after graduation, which is why we are very content and especially proud. Today, our alumni are successful entrepreneurs and an example and motivation for all others to follow their lead.

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Nadia Bakić and Maro Alavanja

Young entrepreneurs and alumni of Bernays who decided to use their gained knowledge and found their own companies. Maro Alavanja is an expert in crisis communication and is called a communication wunderkind, and he heads the Narativ komunikacija agency, while Nadia Brkić decided to navigate the waters of interior design. Read more!

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Lea Kosović Stanić

The communication studies alumna at Bernays decided to use her knowledge by opening an agency called LOL. Her agency deals with the organization of events - from planning and organization to realization. Read more!

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Blanka Tomašić and Ivana Zrinka Šarić

After completing her studies at Bernays, she opened a PR agency called Mediahint, which works on projects related to digitization, ecology, tourism, culture, fashion, EU projects and the economy. Ivana Zrinka Šarić is a project manager at her own winery, Velebna Vineyards & Winery. She opened the winery together with her father, a passionate wine lover, who, over time, transferred his passion to her. Read more!

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Nika Pintar

After completing her studies, Nika Pintar literally went beyond "normal". She has already made her way onto the international scene of the health and age-tech industry, and now she wants to bring people closer to the flourishing longevity industry, encouraging the development of awareness of the importance of microbes for vitality, and using AI to provide support in the implementation of healthy habits. Nika Pintar started the longevity/age-tech startup Ani Biome with her business partner to showcase the preventive biomedicine of the future by stimulating epigenetic changes through a personalized approach to the person's gut microbiome and metabolic health. Read more!

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Ivana Karlić Ban

The Karlić Family from Paladin, not far from Buzet, opened the first Croatian museum dedicated to one of the most expensive foods in the world and to the people who created the history of truffle-making in Istria. Ivana Karlić Ban, the third generation of the Rašpolić Family, as is the maiden name of her mother Radmila, is certainly one of the most significant visionaries of the valorization of not only the village of Paladini, where the company Karlić Tartufi is located, but all of Vrhuvština, the region connecting Buzet and Motovun, the areas that can be called perhaps the most beautiful part of Istria. For Ivana, there were no doubts about where she would develop her professional career. After graduating from Bernays, she returned to her hometown to join the family business. Read more!

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Bernays students complement the theoretical knowledge gained in classes during their studies with high-quality practical work that they perform as part of student placements with the aim of quality preparation for the end of their studies and easier inclusion in the labour market. Student placements are an obligatory part of Bernays’ study programmes.

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For many, student life is a turning point, meaning in most cases leaving your comfort zone, especially if this also involves moving to another city. But, as they say – those who don't take risks don't profit. Therefore, welcome to studying in Zagreb!

Career counseling

Bernays students do not have difficulties finding employment. Every fourth student already finds their first student job in the profession during their studies, while 90% are employed within three months of completing their studies at Bernays.