The University of Dubrovnik is a public university founded in 2003 and located in Dubrovnik, Croatia. It comprises four faculties and two departments and has a total of 285 employees. The Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) has a long tradition. It was founded in 1970 as the Faculty of Tourism and Foreign Trade. Today, the FEB is actively involved in a variety of projects and educational initiatives that focus on digital transformation and its impact on today's working and living environment as well as on the development of students'
employability.

A key component within the FEB is the Centre for Research on Digital Transformation (CREDO), which plays an active role in advancing the University's strategic goals in this area. CREDO brings to the proposed project extensive expertise based on its previous involvement in capacity building activities related to digital entrepreneurship, including the Erasmus+ project IDEA (Inspiring Digital
Entrepreneurship) – and the E+SLEM (Entrepreneurial Self-Leadership Education through Virtual Training) initiative. In addition, CREDO has considerable experience in promoting university-industry collaboration through Capacity Building in Higher Education (CBHE) projects, both as coordinator and partner, notably through the ELEGANT project.