Contact: morana.jarec@inantro.hr, +38515535147

Academic and Scientific Degrees

  • 2022. Scientific Associate in the scientific area of humanities, field of ethnology and anthropology.
  • 2021. PhD in scientific area of Humanities, scientific field of Ethnology and Anthropology. Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Zagreb. Doctoral thesis Infrastructural projects and socio-cultural construction of space in Gorski Kotar.
  • 2010. MA in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and Portuguese Language and Literature. Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Zagreb.
  • 2008. BA in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and Portuguese Language and Literature. Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Zagreb.

Work Experience 

  • Since 2024. Head of Project Management Unit, Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb.
  • Since 2023. Scientific Associate, Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb.
  • 2020. – 2023. Senior Professional Associate. Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb.
  • 2013 – 2020. Professional Associate for International Projects. Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb.
  • 2011 – 2013. Professional Associate in the Director’s Office. Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb.
  • 2009 – 2011.  Portuguese teacher in the school of languages Studentski Centar, Zagreb.

Projects

  • 2024 – 2028. Management Committee Member, Talent Pool (Cost Junior) Leader and Member of Working Group 2 Urban rituals, performances, street theatre, music; COST Action Connecting Critical Pedagogies, Inclusive Art Forms and Alternative Barometers for Urban Sustainability (CIRCUL’ARTs)
  • 2024 – 2027. Project Leader. Multilevel sustainability as a prerequisite for health and wellbeing  – SUSTAINWELL (internal project, Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb).
  • 2023 – 2025. Member of the project team; since 2024 co-leader. The Impact of Global Uncertainties on the Strengthening of the Food Sovereignty Movement in Croatia and Slovenia – SLOHRanA (Croatia-Slovenia bilateral research program of collaboration, Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia).
  • 2020 – 2024. Grant holder manager. COST Action Integrating Neandertal Legacy: From Past to Present – iNEAL.
  • 2020 – 2023. Administrator for partner institution. Individualized approach in the prediction of type 2 diabetes onset and development (IRI, European Fund for Regional Development).
  • 2020 – 2022. Administrator for partner institution. Unravelling Data for Rapid Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 – UnCoVer (Horizon 2020).
  • 2017 – 2019. Administrator for partner institution. Smart Integration of Genetics with Sciences of the Past in Croatia: Minding and Mending the Gap – MendTheGap (Horizon 2020).
  • 2015. Member of the project team. Petar Klepac – junak s dvije domovine (Croatia-Slovenia bilateral research program of collaboration, Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia).
  • 2014 – 2019. Management Committee Member and Member of Working Group 2 Finance. COST Targeted Network The Voice of Research Administrators: Building a Network of Administrative Excellence – BESTPRAC.
  • 2014 – 2015. Member of the project team. Project of popularisation of Science AntroPOP (Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia).
  • 2012 – 2015. Administrator for partner institution and member of the project team. Genetic and environmental factors of insulin resistance syndrome and its long term complication in immigrant Mediterranean populations – MEDIGENE (FP7).
  • 2012 – 2013. Participated in preparing the research on Croatians in South America (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia).

Organizational Skills and Competences

  • Secretary General, Secretary and member of organizing committees of international scientific conferences:
    • 23rd Congress of European Anthropological Association (EAA), 16th Congress of International Society for the Study of Human Growth and Clinical Auxology (ISGA) and Society for the Study of Human Biology (SSHB) Congress, 2024, Zagreb, Croatia
    • IUAES Congress 2020: Coming of Age on Earth: Legacies and Next Generation Anthropology, 2021 (online congress).
    • 22nd Meeting of Paleopathological Association (PPA), August 2018, Zagreb.
    • 44th School of Biological Anthropology: Diseases and Health in Pas Populations: Global Trends and Perspectives, August 2018, Zagreb.
    • IUAES Inter-Congress 2016: World anthropologies and privatization of knowledge – enganging anthropology in public, May 2016, Dubrovnik.
    • 4th symposium Anatomy of islands: Responsible Tourism on the Islands: Towards a Synergy of Tourism and Year-Round Life on the Islands, September 2015, Vis.
    • 35th Anthropology and Health: The convergence of anthropological subfields in research on health and illness: cultural, biological, archaeological, and linguistic factors, August 2014, Dubrovnik.
    • 40th School of Biological Anthropology: Interactions between archaic and modern humans, June 2014, Zagreb.
    • 3rd LINEE + Conference: Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Space and Time, April 2014, Dubrovnik.
    • 34th Anthropology and Health: Anthropology and Personalised Medicine: Impacting the Future of Comprehensive Healthcare, September 2013, Dubrovnik.
    • 39th School of Biological Anthropology: Anthropology of Adolescence, May 2013, Zagreb.
    • 33rd Anthropology and Health: Anthropology of Transition and Tradition, September 2012, Hvar.
    • 38th School of Biological Anthropology: Current Research on Palaeolithic in Southern and Central Europe, June 2011, Zagreb.
    • Archaic hominin genetics meeting, September 2011, Opatija (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)


List of publications – link

Research interests: interaction population/built environment, infrastructure, anthropology of space and place, DIY

Positions in committees, boards, and working groups

  • Since 2016. Member of the Ethical Committee of the Institute for Anthropological Research.
  • Since 2014. Legal Entity Appointed Representative (LEAR) for Institute for Anthropological Research.
  • 2014 – 2019. Management Committee member of COST TN 1302 The Voice of Research Administrators –  Building a Network of Administrative Excellence (BESTPRAC).

Trainings (selected)

  • 2024. Training School. Financial Management of EU Research and Innovation Projects, Belgrade, Serbia.
  • 2019. Training School: How to support successful grant proposals in Horizon Europe: from Crosscutting Issues to Grant Writing, Zagreb.
  • 2016. Training School: How to manage key financial tasks for FP7 and H2020 European research and innovation projects: Finance for Beginners, Verona, Italy.
  • 2015. Short-term mobility (STSM) Best Practice Transfer in Research Administration, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London) and Institute for Global Health
    (University College London), London, UK.
  • 2015. Training School: Engaging Stakeholders throughout the Project Lifecycle – Personal Communication Skills for European Research Administrators, Nuremberg, Germany.
  • 2014. Training School: Understanding the EC Grant and Consortium Agreement – legal affairs for nonlegals, Warsaw, Poland.

Memberships

  • Croatian Ethnological Society
  • Europan Anthropological Association
  • European Association of Research Managers and Administrators
  • International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences – IUAES