摘要：This paper presents an application of the Surgical Laboratory for Biomedical Research, Department of Cardiac and Transplantation Surgery, Dubrava University Hospital, for purchase of equipment through tenders for infrastructural projects of the European Fund for Regional Development. In February 2012, the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports announced a public call for proposals to prepare inventories of potential infrastructural projects, whose implementation could be financed from EFRD within the Operational Programme for Regional Competitiveness 2014 -2020. This paper describes in detail where the need for a research laboratory within a clinical department came from, and in what way this equipment purchase fi ts into the strategies of both Croatia and European Union. The paper emphasizes the benefits of this equipment purchase for the Laboratory, the Republic of Croatia and the European Union.
关键词：Structural and Cohesion Funds; European Fund for Regional Development; Ministry of Science; Education and Sports; Strategy Europa 2020
