Association of Technical Culture Rijeka
Association of Technical Culture Rijeka
Non Governmental Organisation in Technical CultureCroatia
Numerous
awards and recognitions won at the city, regional and national level, are the
best indicator and the reference of the Association of Technical Culture
Rijeka (ATC Rijeka - NGO), as an association with the longest tradition in
the city of Rijeka (Croatia), founded in 1946. ATC Rijeka is one of the main
organizations of technical culture in the Republic of Croatia, which in 2016
celebrated a total of 70 years of technical creativity.
According
to the Croatian Association of Technical Culture, ATC Rijeka is one of the
most important organizations in the implementation of programs and projects
of technical culture, which in 2019 was entrusted national co-organization of
the Festival of Technical Culture. The Festival brought together numerous
experts and educators in technical culture, members of associations of
technical culture at the national level and STEM professionals who organized
workshops and demonstration exercises to wider stakeholders. ATC Rijeka as
“an umbrella association” brings together 62 members (professional legal
entities oriented in the field of technical culture) with over 3000 members
who participate in the implementation of ICT and STEM programs, with an
objective on the development of technical creativity of young people.
With its
members, ATC Rijeka covers a wide range of technical activities such as
astronomy, ecology, photo-cinema-video techniques, microelectronics,
robotics, informatics, innovation, yachting, model making, underwater
activities, traffic, radio technology, technical sports activities at sea and
water, aviation etc.
ATC
Rijeka recognizes entrepreneurship as the ability to create new ideas,
products or services that include the operation of their competencies and
meeting the needs of society. Therefore, ATC also performs an educational
function that aims to change the value system through the rehabilitation of
work, creativity and business ethics.
ATC
Rijeka was founded to provide extracurricular technical training and thus
conducts activities of youth technical, technological, and information
education. ATC Rijeka regularly participates with young people in the
implementation of programs aimed at gaining a scientific approach to reality
and insight into their preferences and abilities and directing them to choose
technical and research occupations.