The first integrated development program for the city of Split predates the founding of the Eupolis Group
The founder of Eupolis Group collaborated with one of the pioneers of smart transformation in public management systems in Croatia and beyond, Zoran Milić, the founder and director of the Institute for Informatics and Telecommunications Split (ZIT Split) and the World Trade Center Split (WTC Split). Together with numerous other experts, Milić contributed to processes of integrated development planning, informatisation of public administration, civil protection systems, alert systems, and urban, regional, and event management.
The information management system created for the Mediterranean Games in Split in 1979 became a global best practice, later utilised for the 1980 Moscow Olympics and all subsequent Olympic Games.
In collaboration with representatives from science, business, and IT in Split, ZIT Split initiated the Software Fair and other local trade events. It also served as a regional training centre for IT professionals. Within this framework, support systems for entrepreneurs and investors were developed, including the Adriatic Business Forum.
This positioned Split as a global leader in advanced knowledge and technologies for social and economic development.

In 1990, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) proposed Split and ZIT Split as the World Center for Software Engineering headquarters. Unfortunately, the Croatian War of Independence outbreak halted this initiative, along with a plan to develop an integrated business, tourism, and socio-cultural hub on Split’s West Coast, where the city administration and other public facilities are now located.
In the early 1990s, the founder of the Eupolis Group expanded this vision by integrating innovation, technology, economy, science, and expertise to serve humanity and nature based on the principles of the wisdom of society and economy.
This vision emphasised creating hubs for collaboration, coordination, and action among forward-thinking, socially responsible, and proactive individuals. It aimed to foster networks and infrastructure that supported sustainable and regenerative development through innovative models, actions, and projects aligned with the needs of current and future generations.
The idea of transforming Split and the Republic of Croatia into a gathering place for people and an initiative for integrated sustainable, regenerative development of humans, society, the economy and their natural ecosystems.
Then, a company with the symbolic name Genesis was launched (later renamed PREMA CHRIS doo Center for Holistic Development Engineering). In cooperation with ZIT, FESB, HPT, the project “Development and Establishment of Interactive Services” was launched in the function of sustainable development of Split, Dalmatia and Croatia.
In parallel, the Worldwide Lessons in Leadership program is being launched in collaboration with Wync, four Croatian universities (Zagreb, Split, Rijeka and Osijek), which brings together the best experts in leadership, management and development from around the world. Participants in this program, among others, were Nelson Mandela, Stephen Covey, Kenneth Blanchard, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and the Croatian program was moderated by Prof. Dr. Velimir Srića. The largest Croatian companies such as Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Zagrebačka banka, APIS and many others participated in the program.
In 1998, the first coworking and educational hub in Croatia, E na Treću – Croatian Youth Entrepreneurial and Educational Initiative for Sustainable Development, was launched. This hub included the World Youth Club and the program “Education for the Third Millennium,” engaging over 1,000 participants and inspiring future entrepreneurs, including Toni Trivković, founder of SplitTechCity, one of the largest tech communities in the region.

In parallel with the establishment of the Eupolis Group, the City of Split, recognizing these efforts, invited the company’s founder to participate in launching the first public-civil-private partnership for the integrated development of the city of Split within the framework of the Split Healthy City project. Thus, the Split Healthy City Association was soon established, and then the Healthy City, as a pioneering project of the City of Split and the Croatian Healthy Cities Network. The association was founded to help solve the city’s key development problems (such as the growth of addiction and other psychosocial disorders in children and youth) in an integrated manner, using the extremely valuable Healthy Cities methodology developed within the framework of the World Health Organization, other world, but also its own creative contributions.
Through the joint efforts of a large number of stakeholders from the public, civil and private sectors, the City of Split is soon becoming an example of good practice followed by numerous cities in Croatia. Healthy City projects are reviewed in the world’s scientific literature, receiving numerous awards for the best regional project, the best regional organization, an example of good EU practice, the best scientific work (the Josip Juraj Strossmayer Award to the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2008 for the best scientific work and publishing venture in the Croatian language), etc.


In 2013. the Cluster for eco-social innovation and development of CEDRA Split is established. Split is gradually gaining a system and professional support in its numerous development efforts.
In addition to actively participating in the work of the Partnership Council for the Development of the City, encouraging the establishment and management of the Local Partnership (for development and) employment of the Split-Dalmatia County, the Eupolis Group is working on the first stock of strategic development projects for the City of Split and the Split-Dalmatia County.
By establishing a support system for eco-social development and innovation, by encouraging a support system for sustainable, green and social entrepreneurship, Eupolis Group and CEDRA Split are becoming one of the key incubators for projects of integrated, sustainable, regenerative and equitable development.
As one of the first five helix clusters in Europe, CEDRA Split was recognised by the European Commission and is a member of the European Cluster Collaboration Platform. It serves as an incubator for integrated urban and rural development projects, aligning with the Industry 5.0 concept of industry serving humanity and the planet.

