Dear colleagues, 

the time for our next HUPE Rijeka Branch meeting has come. It will be held on December 16, 2023 at 10 am at the Trsat Branch of the Rijeka City Library (Dvorana mladosti, Trg Viktora Bubnja 1). 

Agenda: 

1. Darja Urh: A safe place 
   Have you ever thought about what a teacher needs to be able to be a good teacher? Not what students need. My plan is to channel the energy into us. We must take care of ourselves. Join me and find out how to be a happy teacher and learn to look after yourself. 
2. Dora Božanić Malić: Twist and turn: Unleashing the power of ready-made materials
   In this workshop, a collection of EFL teaching materials accessible through our social media platforms is presented. Moreover, the participants are lead through the art of customizing exercises to meet their specific needs, e.g. converting a grammar practice activity into a writing task, a speaking activity into a grammar-focused exercise, a vocabulary task into a stimulating discussion, etc. The workshop will empower educators to adapt the materials flexibly according to their teaching objectives. There will be a little Christmas bonus at the end. 
3. HUPE news 

If you’d like to attend the meeting, please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. as the number of attendees is limited. 

Looking forward to seeing you. 

Kind regards, 

Doris Mesaroš 
HUPE Rijeka Branch President

Dear colleagues,

the first HUPE Karlovac branch meeting in this school year will be held at 6:30 pm on 14^th November 2023 (Thursday) at OŠ Braća Seljan, Vladimira Nazora 1, Karlovac. Free parking is secured.

Agenda:

1. Branka Katalinić: ClueBox in your classroom
   This workshop tends to show how any room can be transformed into the playground area for live escape room activities with the right equipment and a teacher enthusiast who prepares the puzzles according to the language learning objectives.

2. Barbara Bošnjak: EPAS – Project activities and dissemination (online)
   The talk will focus on presenting the EPAS (The European Parliament Ambassador School Programme) project activities and teaching materials oriented toward development of critical thinking in young people so they can form positive attitudes towards the European Union and its underlying values.

For those who are unable to attend in person, the second lecture is held on the Zoom platform.

Please confirm your arrival (or ask for the Zoom passcode) by sending an email to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

Looking forward to seeing you,

Tomislav Mravunac
HUPE Karlovac branch president

Dear colleagues, 

The first HUPE Dubrovnik Branch meeting in the school year 2023/2024 will take place on Saturday, December 9, 2023 at 10 am at Osnovna škola Blato in Blato.

AGENDA

1. Mirta Kos – Kolobarić: An Idiom a Day Keeps Boredom Away
   How many English idioms do your students know and use? The workshop presents several ready-made ideas and quizzes you can use in the classroom to help them learn some interesting and frequent idioms. Through station learning, students get acquainted with various idioms, organized by themes (colours, animals). Each station presents  a different task, introducing an element of gamification and competition, encouraging teamwork and collaboration.

2. Tea Horvat: AI is here – Now What?
   When artificial intelligence (AI) enters your classroom, you should prepare your students and you should be prepared as well. Moreover, the talk summarizes the ideas for quicker lesson planning, generating responses from Chat GPTand generating AI videos, images or even presentations with various AI tools and how to use AI in education.

3. 31st HUPE Conference report

4. HUPE News

If you would like to attend the meeting, please confirm your arrival on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by December 3, 2023. I am looking forward to seeing you all and spending a nice Saturday morning together.

Best regards,

Jelica Šeparović

HUPE Dubrovnik Branch President

Dear colleagues,

You are kindly invited to attend our first HUPE Split Branch meeting in 2023-2024, which will take place at OŠ Pujanki, Ive Tijardovića 30, Split, on Friday, 1^st December, 2023 at 17:00.

Agenda:   

1. HUPE news – 31^stConference report 

2. Ivana Bokavšek and Anita Lasić: And the Oscar Goes To…!
   How to assess speaking skills? How and where to find ideas and teaching material? How to integrate movies in the classroom? You will find the answers in this creative workshop that contains the elements of gamification and enhances students’ logical thinking and concluding at the same time improving their media literacy.

3. Ivana Pločkinić: Transversal Skills
   Transversal skills are those not considered as specifically related to a particular subject or area of knowledge but as skills that can be used in a wide variety of situations. These skills are increasingly in high demand for learners to be successful at school. Some examples are critical and innovative thinking, inter-personal skills, intra-personal skills, global citizenship, media and information literacy.

4. Ana Kodrić Ivelić and Marija Čarija Agoli: Team Building With CLIL
   CLIL stands for Content and Language Integrated Learning. CLIL incorporates both the learning of content and the learning of a foreign language. When we think of content, CLIL is often about the teaching of subjects such as science, history or geography, but it can also be about the teaching of any other kind of content which is less academic such as photography, fashion, cooking or cinema. In this workshop you will learn about many examples of good practice.

5. Raffle and prizes by publishers

If you plan to attend the meeting, you are kindly requested to register sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  by Thursday, 30 November 2023.

I’m looking forward to meeting you!

Kind regards,

Anita Lasić, prof.
HUPE Split Branch President