Analysis of social factors affecting the quality of life of the veteran population – guidelines for the future

The main goals of the project are to survey public opinion, and the obtained data will be processed as part of professional and scientific research in which renowned professors from three scientific organizations (Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Croatian Catholic University and University of Zadar) will participate, who will present their work in scientific articles and instructions for creating guidelines. The topics of these investigations concern: public opinion about veterans and images created in the media, health care for veterans, work activity of veterans and their involvement in social entrepreneurship, war tourism in the Republic of Croatia, psychosocial status of veterans’ families, communication between veterans and decision makers. The developed guidelines will be presented to decision-makers during six structured dialogues attended by veterans, representatives of the non-profit and for-profit sectors, social partners, local/regional self-government units, members of the scientific community, representatives of relevant ministries, agencies and institutions. The overall evaluation of the proposed guidelines will be presented at the final national conference in Zagreb, and the results of the project will be compared with the new Law on Croatian Veterans of the Homeland War and their family members, and presented to the public, while all project activities will be published on the web portal of the Thematic Network.