Ivana Uremović Gašić is a professor of Italian language and literature and I works at the Elementary School "Rikard Katalinić Jeretov" Opatija. In addition to classes, she leads an extracurricular activity on the topic of ecology. She lives in Opatija between the forest and the sea with her husband, two children, a parrot and a dog. She dedicates her free time to them and to personal development.

This year, the class joined the global project "Precious Plastics", for which they recorded several videos in order to initiate the community to think critically about the depletion of natural resources and the destruction of the environment. While working at the school, in cooperation with colleagues and children, they realized two picture books on the theme of local legends, which were published and affirm the moral values ​​ in Croatian, local dialect and Italian language.