Sexual Harassment and Workplace Abuse in a Slavonian Winery, Croatia
Case Description This case concerns a female worker in a well-known Slavonian winery in Croatia who was subjected to repeated sexual harassment and workplace abuse by two male superiors. According to the media report, the case was judged by the Municipal Court in Vukovar, which issued a non-final judgment against two former winery managers, anonymised […]
Grass Ceiling Project
EU Horizon project empowering rural women innovators across 9 countries through Living Labs, mentorship, online training, and policy advocacy to advance gender equality in agricultural innovation systems.
Empowering Women in Agrifood (EWA) – Croatia
EWA Croatia is a six-month pre-incubation programme supporting early-stage women entrepreneurs in the agrifood sector, delivered as part of EIT Food’s pan-European initiative. It responds to a persistent gender gap – women occupy only about 30% of leadership positions in agricultural and livestock businesses in Europe, with the figure even lower in RIS regions.
Croatia data snapshot
Reading Croatia through production, identity and data gaps The Croatian data snapshot should be read in two layers. The first layer is quantitative: production estimates, production categories, company-financial data and trade. The second layer is diagnostic: data-definition gaps and missing gender-disaggregated indicators. Both layers are necessary for a responsible Observatory profile. Wine production estimate and […]
Perceptions of Safety and Support in the European Wine Sector
An exploratory cross-country overview Across Europe, the wine sector combines tradition, craftsmanship and strong regional identities. At the same time, like many labour-intensive industries, it faces ongoing challenges related to workplace safety, power relations and access to effective support mechanisms. Understanding how these issues are perceived by those working within the sector is a crucial […]
Croatia
A small wine ecosystem with a long route to prevention Croatia should be read as a wine ecosystem rather than as a list of wine producers. The sector includes grape growers, wine-making enterprises, family wineries, micro-producers, regional associations, restaurants, wine bars, tourism operators, festivals, distributors, journalists, sommeliers and public institutions responsible for agriculture, equality and […]