A photograph in a Hall of the Student Center in Zagreb

A photograph taken in the hall of the Student Center in Zagreb during one of the student activities organized by the International Student Friendship Club (MSKP).

The International Student Friendship Club (Međunarodni studentski klub prijateljstva - MSKP) was established in 1962 by the Croatian Student Union in Zagreb as the first friendship club in Yugoslavia, in later years followed by a club in Belgrade, then Sarajevo, Skopje, Ljubljana and other cities. The first director of Zagreb’s MSKP was Špiro Badurina, a student from the island of Pag. The club was initially located at Tvrtkova Street 5, and in 1975 it was temporarily relocated to Pavilion N of the Zagreb Student Center, where it remained until it ceased to exist in the 1990s.

The MSKP was created to support the extracurricular needs of international students and to organize cultural and leisure activities for young people in Zagreb. The club brought together youth from both abroad and Croatia, becoming a space for internationalist education, intercultural exchange, and the fostering and expansion of friendship and cooperation among nations. One of the many activities organized by the International Student Friendship Club (MSKP) was the celebration of national holidays and cultural days of the countries represented by foreign students.