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intensified cooperation with IUVSTA, which
continued through successive presidential
mandates of B. Pivac (2008-2010), S. Miloševi
(2011-2016) and current mandate of M. Buljan
(2017-).
The aims and objectives of the HVD/CVS are
to promote and advance vacuum science and
technology, to inform and educate society
members and interested community, to
encourage and support the VST applications,
and to assist to and represent the HVD members.
These goals are to be achieved by organizing
professionals and individuals active in the VST
areas, by promoting and advancement of the
VST in science, industry and other areas, by
organizing meetings - conferences, workshops,
seminars, courses - on appropriate topics, by
professional cooperation and collaboration
among the society members, and by encouraging
students and young researchers to study and
excel in VST knowledge and practice.
Membership in the HVD is either individual
(regular, honorary, young) or collective (suppor
ting institutions). In 2017, the HVD counts
81 individual members, and 3 collective
members. Governing bodies of the HVD/CVS are:
1. Assembly 2. Managing Board 3. President, and
4. Supervisory Board. CVS Assembly regularly
convenes every year, and the elected bodies have
a 3-yrs mandates. HVD is a member society of the
Croatian Engineering Association (HIS).
Since 1993, the CVS is organizing a bilateral
annual meeting with the Slovenian Vacuum
Society, with alternate hosting every other year.
The Book of Abstracts is regularly published, and
selected papers are occasionally published in the
journal Strojarstvo/ Engineering.
From the 1995 CVS joined the Austrian,
Hungarian, and Slovenian Vacuum Societies as
the organizer of what is now known as biennial
Joint Vacuum Conference. In that capacity, CVS
organized two JVC meetings (both sponsored
by the IUVSTA): JVC-8 (2000, Pula), and joint
JVC-14/EVC-12/AMDVG-11/CroSloVM-19
conference, (2012, Dubrovnik). Selected papers
of both JVCs are published in Vacuum.
The interaction with IUVSTA intensified during
the past two decades. As a rule, HVD president
is also a Councilor for Croatia, and the HVD
nominates representatives in every IUVSTA
scientific division. Some of them served as
divisional or committee officers – N. Radi as
TFD Secretary (2004-2007) and vice-chair
(2007-2010), LRPC Secretary (2010-2013), CPC
Vice-Chair (2013-2016), I. Capan as EMPD Chair
(2013-2019), and M. Petravi as ASSD Vice-
chair (2016-2019). N. Radi also established
and coordinated (2001-2005) IUVSTA Technical
Training Courses program.
The HVD hosted two ECMs in Dubrovnik:
ECM-93 (2003), and ECM-119 (2014).
As mentioned earlier, the ECM-8 was held in
Zagreb on 28 September 1966.
The 50
th
IUVSTAWorkshop “Novel Nanostructure-
based Devices” organized by Nanometer Science
Division was held in Dubrovnik, Oct 22-27, 2006.
As a member of Consortium of nine national
Vacuum Societies, HVD coorganized the IVC-19
in Paris (2013), with N. Radi being Organizing
Committee Vice-chair. The 16
th
International
Conference on Thin Films (ICTF16, 2014), was
jointly organized by HVD, Hungarian VS, and
Slovenian VS and held in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Nowadays, the HVD is a stable and mature
vacuum society fully integrated in IUVSTA and
regional scientific community, with the aim to
further growth by inclusion of professionals from
industry and Life and health science.
Participants of the joint JVC14/EVC12/AMDVG11/CroSloVM19 conference, June 4-8, 2012, Dubrovnik, Croatia
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