Welcome note · FICE 35 Congress

Welcome to all participants to the 35th FICE International World Congress in Split, Croatia 23rd to 25th of October, 2024

FICE Croatia is honored to organize the 35th World Congress of the FICE International network in Split, Croatia 23^rd to 25^th of October, 2024.

“SHAPING TOMORROW’S CARE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH:

Quality and innovation in alternative care”

This international event presents the opportunity for experts, practitioners, and academics from different countries to review and improve their work and to highlight innovative initiatives and ideas in different fields and disciplines.

The program will bring together numerous international and national participants, experts in the field of alternative childcare and child and youth protection.

We are all responsible!

Children in care have only one childhood opportunity!

35th FICE international World Congress is an opportunity to exchange knowledge, experiences, and good practices, to join forces in project activities, to look for innovative solutions to new challenges, to set higher goals for services, and initiate changes for promoting the wellbeing of vulnerable children in out-of-home care

Our goal is to organize a venue and platform for professional exchange that will inspire future change for children in care and their careers

Warm greetings from Croatia. Already looking forward to see you in beautiful Split!

Lucija Vejmelka, PhD, Associate professor, FICE Croatia, Conference Chair

On behalf of the Organizing Committee

We are contacting you to wish all participants of the Congress, especially the organizers of the Congress and the members of FICE CROATIA, a successful Congress, lots of good, old and new international cooperation, initiatives and fun.

As members and presidents of FICE – Section for the Republic of Croatia in the demanding time of the 90s, we are extremely happy and satisfied that FICE CROATIA now, that is, from 2016/2017. year, successfully operates in the national and international professional space. Among other things, it also gives some subsequent meaning to our earlier, less successful efforts to gather experts.
We want the vision and mission that you have set for yourself as FICE CROATIA in these new, no less demanding times, to be fully realized with the authentic contribution of all experts, members of FICE.

We thank you for the invitations to join you, but for various reasons we are unable to do so, so we warmly welcome you all in this way. Good luck and success!

Boris Hudina, prof. psychologist - president at the time of the foundation of the association FICE - Section for the Republic of Croatia, Prof. Ph.D.Sc. Antonija Žižak - president at the time of the closure of the association FICE - Section for the Republic of Croatia

On behalf of the FICE