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Editorial

The electronic or printed version of the monograph under the title of “Twenty Years of the Croatian Academy of Engineering (HATZ) 1993-2013” provides the most important information about the history of our Academy since its establishment in 1993. From the Archives rich with the documents about the life and activities of the Croatian Academy of Engineering the Editorial Council has selected the contents providing an insight into the history, organization, membership and activities of the Academy. Therefore, the contents of the Monograph are divided into a number of chapters to provide more clearly presented data. In particular, we point out the first five chapters which describe the organization of the Academy, valid normative acts and the Scientific Fund of the Academy (formerly the Foundation of the Academy), which initiates the evaluation of excellence at all levels of Croatian scientists in fields of engineering by awarding the best achievements, and therefore the eighth chapter is especially devoted to the award winners. The sixth chapter describes the history of the Academy in which the former presidents give their perception which makes a valuable contribution to the history of the Academy and provides special quality to this monograph. As we are particularly proud of the fact that the members of our Academy are top scientists with numerous awards of various kinds for their work, in the seventh chapter are listed all our members who are previous winners of the highest national awards and decorations. The international activity of the Academy is, along with the main goal of contributing to science and the Croatian economy, one of the important objectives of the work. Besides bilateral international cooperation of some of our members, we cooperate and are members of the European Council of Academies of Applied Sciences, Technologies and Engineering (Euro- CASE) and of the same kind of world association International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS). That is the reason why we decided to present this cooperation in the ninth chapter. An overview of the selected individual members of all categories is presented systematically in the following four chapters, which show the number and diversity of our members from all branches of fields of engineering. The strategic mission of the Academy is a collaboration between science and industry, which has many forms. In order to get closer to the needs of these two in the contemporary world inevitably and significantly related categories, a statutory decision enabled the possibility of participating in the work of the Academy and all interested scientific institutions and economic entities ; this is the reason that we have reached an enviable number of members in the category of supporting members, who with their contribution extremely help the Academy, which has no institutional financial support ; they are listed in the twelfth chapter. We are sorry to note that over these 20 years of our Academy a number of our members passed away. In memory of them, their names are listed in the fourteenth chapter, paying them final homage. In one period to 2014, there was a status of individual members amici of the Academy, a list of which is, due to historical facts, given in the fifteenth chapter. To connect past, present and future of the Academy, the sixteenth chapter presents a vision of work and development of the Academy in the next period through the program of work of the current Governing Board which was adopted at the 28th Annual Assembly of the Academy in 2013. The final seventeenth chapter contains the alphabetical list of the membership in 2014. Short biographical information and contact are provided for each member. This makes this monograph more valuable. Finally, as Editorial Board, we apologize for possible incompleteness, oversights and mistakes in this monograph which are certainly unintentional due to time framework and capacity when working.

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