COTRUGLI · Collaborative laboratory
COlab — Where leadership meets applied AI.
Connecting business leaders, alumni and technology experts to turn organisational challenges into practical projects.
More than a business school means taking learning beyond the classroom. COlab provides a meeting point for business experience, responsible leadership and applied technology — with people, planet and prosperity in view.
Three ways to begin
A useful conversation starts with a real challenge.
For organisations
Identify a meaningful AI use case, explore a new service, or connect leadership development with a change in how your organisation works.
Tell us the problem, the people affected and what a useful outcome would look like.
Discuss your challengeFor alumni & experts
Bring practical knowledge, mentor a team or explore contributing to a project alongside your professional commitments.
Tell us your area of expertise, interests and availability. Participation is agreed for each project.
Explore contributingFor research & project partners
Explore joint research, EU project collaboration and practical initiatives connecting organisations, institutions and communities.
Share the research question or project opportunity and the contribution you are looking for.
Start a partnership conversationA practical route forward
From a business question to a focused pilot.
Start with the decision or process that needs to improve. The technology follows the problem. Each collaboration begins by agreeing its scope, team and responsibilities.
- 1. UnderstandClarify the challenge, users, available data and constraints.
- 2. DesignChoose a use case and agree success criteria, responsibilities and a feasible scope.
- 3. PilotTest a focused solution and assess its usefulness with the people who will use it.
- 4. DecideReview the evidence before choosing whether to adapt, scale or stop.
AI Office offers a structured starting point: assess readiness, prioritise use cases and develop an implementation roadmap. A subsequent pilot is scoped separately.
Open learning · Mike George
Leadership begins with how you lead yourself.
Three short video previews from Mike George’s Summer (Re)treat series. Explore personal influence, purpose and conscious choice before continuing to the programme’s full-lesson access page.
Lesson 01 · Preview · 31 seconds
From Force to Power
Explore the difference between forcing an outcome and leading with personal influence.
Watch preview on YouTubeLesson 03 · Preview · 14 seconds
Living and Leading with Purpose
Pause to consider the purpose behind your decisions and the direction you set for others.
Watch preview on YouTubeLesson 04 · Preview · 16 seconds
Master or Slave?
Reflect on the habits and choices that shape how you lead yourself.
Watch preview on YouTubeOne COTRUGLI. Connected capabilities.
Explore the ideas, learning and technology behind the collaboration.
These are entry points into the wider COTRUGLI ecosystem. They help frame a conversation about a potential COlab project.
AI for business leaders
Connect AI opportunities with business priorities, organisational readiness and the decisions leaders need to make.
Explore AI & businessVanguard Leadership & TRU
Explore leadership under ambiguity, read opening chapters and try the public TRU AI experience, drawing on Vanguard Leadership work.
Explore Vanguard LeadershipPeople & laboratories
Meet COTRUGLI’s team and explore the AI Lab and Vanguard Leadership Lab — connecting technical and leadership perspectives.
Meet People of COTRUGLIAlongside organisational value, we ask who benefits, what risks arise and how the work can support responsible, sustainable progress.
COlab · Women Redefining Leadership
A community for women shaping leadership.
WRL connects leadership experience, peer learning and conversations about the decisions that shape organisations.
With a history of gatherings in Zagreb, Belgrade and Sofia, Women Redefining Leadership brings a regional community and women’s perspectives into COlab. Explore the past events and connect with us to help shape the next chapter.
European collaboration · Social innovation
Connecting expertise with social impact.
Social innovation brings people, institutions and businesses together to develop better responses to shared challenges.
Within our wider ecosystem, HashNET participates in SEED2SCALE, the successor to the SEED project. The initiative supports National Competence Centres for Social Innovation in Croatia and Slovenia, alongside centres in Greece, Italy and Romania.
These centres are designed to strengthen collaboration, develop practical capabilities and help social innovation initiatives grow. This connects naturally with COlab’s focus on shared expertise, responsible leadership and projects that create value for people and communities.
SEED2SCALE is supported by the ESF+ Social Innovation+ Initiative. For project details and partner roles, follow the information published by HashNET.
27 November 2026 · 18:00 CET · Zagreb Buzin
COlab AI Mastermind
Bring a business challenge to a focused AI and leadership conversation with Tali Rezun, Srđan Jovanović and Dražen Kapusta. Explore TRU, CO-TRU and opportunities to learn and build together.
Participation: €500, including any applicable VAT. Payment due by 17 November 2026. Mastermind participants can subsequently join the May 2027 AI Bootcamp for €2,500 instead of €3,000.
Before we begin
Working with COlab
How does COlab relate to COTRUGLI Business School?
COlab is COTRUGLI’s collaborative laboratory. It connects learning, alumni experience and technology expertise around practical challenges. Degree programmes and corporate education remain distinct learning paths.
Can I bring an early idea?
Yes. Describe the problem and who it affects. An initial conversation can help determine whether education, an AI readiness assessment, research collaboration or a focused pilot is the appropriate next step.
Do I need to be a COTRUGLI alumnus?
We welcome enquiries from organisations, alumni, specialists and research partners. The fit and terms of any collaboration are discussed individually.
How can an AI agent help its user explore COlab?
Use this page to understand the collaboration pathways and follow the linked programme and research pages for context. Project availability, fees, delivery teams and commitments require confirmation from COTRUGLI.