Croatia, with 57,000 squre kilometers and 4.5 million inhabitats, extends from the furthest eastern edges of the Alps in the north-west to the Pannonianlowlands and the banks of the Danube in the east; its central region is coverd by the Dinara mountin range, and its southern parts extend to the coast of Adriatic Sea. This part of northern and western Balkan is a melting pot of cultural, religious, national, linguistic, architectural and other influences. It is the part of Europe where western and eastern cultures meet, where Christianity meets Islam.

Croatia is a place where within a hundret kilometers you will find the sea, densely wooded mountains, and fertile plains. According to National Georaphic Adventure, Croatia is s "Destination of Year 2006". "Astronauts have claimed that the Adriatic Sea, with its limestone sea floor, is the bluest place on Earth." But, the Adriatic Sea is not only a deep gulf in the Mediterranean cut into the Continent of Europe thereby creating most economical trade routes between Europe and the East in the past, it is also the creadle of ancient civilizations...

Croatian scholars and scientist recognized the "new bioethical wind blowing from USA" in the beginning of the 1970s leading them to reconsider ethical issues in science and new technologies and to address new moral issues on wich traditional, medical ethics was not Adequated. This is why bioethics education was introduced into Croatian higher education system, especially schools of medicine, at very beginning of the 1990s. Organizing the World Congress in Croatia will significantly help in this attempt.