On Wednesday, 7 July 2026, a meeting of the County Professional Council of German language teachers in secondary schools in Osijek-Baranja County was held, at which Marijana Mandić, PhD, from the Department of German Language and Literature, together with foreign language teacher Mirela Rukavina-Sabo, gave a presentation entitled “Literature Connects / Literatur verbindet: Experiences and Results of Four Years of Cooperation”, accompanied by a workshop, and presented the results of the long-standing cooperation between the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek and Isidor Kršnjavi Secondary School in Našice.
Since 2023, one workshop has been held each year as part of the science popularisation events Science Week and Science Festival, as well as within the project “Analysis of Systems in Crisis and New Consciousness in 21st-Century Literature”, funded by the Croatian Science Foundation, and this year also within the project “Urban (Non-)Resilience in Contemporary German-Language Prose”, funded by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. Students of Isidor Kršnjavi Secondary School in Našice participated in a total of four workshops, where they engaged in a variety of activities involving critical and creative thinking, examining problems from different perspectives, presenting arguments for their views and active listening. They also had the opportunity to become acquainted with interdisciplinary work, the basics of research, and the use of digital technologies in research.
Marijana Mandić and Mirela Rukavina-Sabo gave their presentation at the County Professional Council in Našice with the aim of using their own experiences to demonstrate the benefits of cooperation between schools and faculties and to encourage participants to remain open to future opportunities for inter-institutional cooperation.
The professional meeting was held at the premises of Isidor Kršnjavi Secondary School in Našice.