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Neven Tandarić

Address: Ozaljska 148, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia

E-mail: neven.tandaric@gmail.com

Social networks: ResearchGate, Academia.edu, LinkedIn

Intro

I am an Environmental Geographer from Croatia. Since 2017 I am doing a PhD research at the University of Nottingham supervised by Dr Chris Ives and Prof Charles Watkins. My fields of interest are urban and regional planning and management, sustainable spatial development, geographical impacts of climate change, geodiversity and landscape ecology.

Languages

Croatian (mother tongue)

English (professional use)

Spanish (basic)

German (basic)

Education​

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography

2011 - 2014

 

University graduate study programme Physical geography with geoecology

Title awarded: Master of Geography (MSc)

Thesis: Phyisical geographical spatial elements in applied geoecological researches (supervised by Dr Nenad Buzjak)

Acquired skills for research, planning and management of space and environmental resources for sustainable spatial and regional development.

Awards: Certificate of Commendation awarded by the Faculty Board for outstanding academic success (top of the class, total ECTS credits: 135)

 

 

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography

2011 - 2014

 

University graduate study programme in Geography Education

Title awarded: Master of Education of Geography (MEd)

Thesis: Inventory and evaluation of geomorphological sites in Jankovac Park-forest (Croatia) (supervised by Dr Nenad Buzjak and Dr Neven Bočić)

Acquired skills for teaching geography and geoscience in schools and education-related research.

Awards: Certificate of Commendation awarded by the Faculty Board for outstanding academic success, 2013 (top of the class, total ECTS credits: 122)

 

 

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography

2008 - 2011

 

University undergraduate study programme in Geography

Title awarded: Bachelor in Geography (BSc)

Thesis: Geomorphological features of dolines in Cres Island (Croatia) (supervised by Prof Sanja Faivre)

Acquired knowledge and skills from various branches of physical and human geography to identify, understand and analyse spatial processes and problems.

Graduated in top 10% of the class, total ECTS credits: 183

Skills

IT SKILLS

  • Microsoft Office programmes

  • ESRI ArcGIS and ESRI ArcGIS Online

  • NVivo

  • Adobe InDesign

  • GeoMedia Professional

  • CorelDRAW 5

  • SPSS Statistics

  • Wordpress

 

ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS

  • successful organisation and management of project teams in both student research and work projects

  • well-evaluated implementation of the project-type classes with groups of ca. 25 students at the University of Zagreb

  • I was an executive member of the organizational and preparation team of the summer camp „Regenerate Europe! Youth Activism, Political Participation & Direct Democracy“ organized by NGO CDN at Jankovac, Croatia in 2013

 

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

  • very good written and oral communication skills developed through educational training, work, teaching, and writing and presenting scientific and professional studies

 

Further informations

2010 - present

2010 - present

Work eperience

consultant in urban and regional planning at Urbanex Ltd.

Zagreb, October 2015 - August 2017

 

At first, I was involved in data analysis and drafting of planning documents. After six months, I was promoted to a project leader and manager and was responsible for the process of planning documents development and project management. I carried out the development of three urban and sectoral planning documents, two baseline studies and two (successful) project proposals for EU funding, and participated in development of several other documents, studies and project proposals.

 

 

GIS Analyst at Geofoto

Zagreb, February 2015 - May 2015

I carried out the detail topographical mapping from digital orthophotographs.

 

 

Before that I worked on several student jobs:

 

web-editor for www.geografija.hr at Croatian Geographical Society

Zagreb, September 2014 - September 2015

 

 

student assistant for the State Graduation Exam at National Centre for External Evaluation of Education

Zagreb, May 2014 - July 2014

 

demonstrator at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography

Zagreb, October 2012 - February 2014

 

Module: Applied Geoecology.

I organised and implemented project-type student exercises regarding the geomorphological and geoecological analysis of landscape and assessment of landscape for its societal use.

Non-formal education​

Active Youth trainings

  • Youthpass for programme “European Volunteers for Change”, 21-28 May 2013, ASHA Centre, Flaxley, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

  • International Summer Camp “Regenerate Europe! Youth Activism, Political Participation & Direct Democracy”, organised by Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe, 10-16 August 2013, Jankovac, Croatia

  • Student programme of the Academy for political development in academic year 2015/2016, Zagreb, Croatia

 

 

Masive Open Online Course certificates

since 2013

 

  • Greening the Economy: Lessons from Scandinavia (Lund University, 2015)

  • Disasters and Ecosystems: Resilience in a Changing Climate (UNEP and Cologne University, 2015)

  • Pathways to climate change adaptation: the case of Small Island Developing States (University of Geneva, 2015)

  • Going Places with Spatial Analysis (ESRI, 2014)

  • Introduction to Sustainability (University of Illinois, 2013)

  • Climate Change (University of Melbourne, 2013)

  • Maps and the Geospatial Revolution (The Pennsylvania State University, 2013)

 

 

MEMBERSHIP

  • Croatian Geographical Society

  • Croatian Geomorphological Society

  • Non-governmental organisation for international cooperation in sustainable development and environment protection Green Window

  • Cultural and homeland association for preserving tradition values and quality of life – Radost Vukosavljevica

 

APPOINTMENTS

  • Student representative in the Council of the Department of Geography in Zagreb in academic years 2011/2012, 2012/2013, and 2013/2014

 

VOLUNTEERING

  • the organisation of the international summer camps “ComeUnity – Youth participation, solidarity and alternative economy” (2015) and “Regenerate Europe! Youth Activism, Political Participation & Direct Democracy” (2013) for Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe

 

  • web-editor for the website www.geografija.hr for Croatian Geographical Society in 2014 and 2015

 

  • web-editor and content creator for the website vukosavljevica.wordpress.com for the local NGO Radost Vukosavljevica in 2014 and 2015

 

  • coordination of local group for Jarun in World Cleanup Day between 2012 and 2016

 

INTERESTS

cycling, travelling, camping, cooking, science-fiction

 

DRIVER'S LICENSE

  • B category

 

EDITING BOOKS

  • Edited the book "Vukosavljevica - pople and events" by Mirko Hausknecht, Udruga Radost Vukosavljevica in 2015

 

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