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On 9th-10th of July the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union organised a VET expert conference: “The Future of Vocational Education and Training in Europe“. The conference aimed to initiate expert level discourse,…

Following the Western Balkans Summit Series and leading up to the Summit in London which will be held in July 2018, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development wishes to continue the support…

Brussels – Ministers in charge of education from the Western Balkan economies endorsed a set of key principles on automatic recognition of academic qualifications in the region at the 7th Ministerial meeting of the Western…

Conference “Work-based Learning: a road to opportunities“, Belgrade, 12 June 2018 The conference on work-based learning (WBL) in vocational education and training (VET) was organized by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the…

The Working Group on Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications met for the 7th time in Sarajevo on 7 May 2018. The meeting was jointly organized by Education Reform Initiative of South East Europe (ERI SEE), Central…

Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) convened the 10th meeting of the SEE 2020 Strategy Coordination Board that took place in Vienna, Austria on 30 November 2017.

The European Alliance for Apprenticeships (EAfA) is a platform managed by the European Commission in close cooperation with EU social partners that brings together governments with other key stakeholders, for instance business associations, individual companies, social partners, chambers, vocational education and training (VET) providers, regions, youth representatives or think tanks. The common goal is to strengthen the quality, supply, image and mobility of apprenticeships in Europe.

On 28th -29th September, in Belgrade, the Directorate for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture of the European Commission, in cooperation with the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological development, organized the 6th annual ministerial meeting of the Western Balkans Platform on Education and Training, which was for the first time joined with the Western Balkans Platform on Research and Innovation.

he 2017 Western Balkans Summit took place in Trieste, Italy, on 12th July 2017, where the Heads of Government, Foreign Ministers, Ministers of Economy and Ministers of Transport of the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo* and Serbia) together with their counterparts from several EU Member States (Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, and Slovenia) and high-level EU representatives discussed key areas of regional cooperation, and set out concrete measures to better connect the region's infrastructures, economies and people.