Regional and national trainings for teachers and company instructors within the EQET SEE project
The Enhancements in the quality of education and training in South Eastern Europe – the EQET SEE project years were marked by innovative regional initiatives designed to support the modernisation of Western Balkan VET systems. The EQET SEE project partners developed, for the first time in the region, regionally based qualification standards (based on the regionally developed regional occupational standards) with integrated social sustainability, gender equity and environmental sustainability elements, regional teaching and learning material and WBL guidelines supporting regionally developed QS and national curricula, and lastly, trainings for teachers and company instructors. The main goal of the trainings was to support teachers and company instructors in implementing agricultural technician of organic and traditional cultivation and locksmith curricula in schools and companies.
Fully supporting the continuous professional development of teachers in Western Balkans the EQET SEE project partners developed trainings for trainers of teachers working in agriculture and locksmith schools based on developed education material, on:
- Agriculture technician and locksmith core curricula
- Social sustainability and gender equity: supporting schools and teachers in implementing curricula in socially sustainable and equitable manner
- Training on environmental sustainability in education and training
The total of 59 trainers of teachers from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia attended trainings in May 2024 and October 2024 supported by the EQET SEE project. Trainers of teachers used the regional training programme and material and implemented trainings of teachers in all six EQET SEE economies. By the end of the year 200 teachers were trained. Over 300 teachers is expected to be trained by the end of the project in all six WB economies.
Companies responsible for training students as part of the dual and WBL models received support for implementing agricultural technician and locksmith curricula. The total of 48 trainers of company instructors received training on core (agriculture/locksmith) and crosscutting topics (social sustainability, gender equity and environmental sustainability).
Regional trainings were implemented by Igor Nikolov (agriculture), Ridvan Zeqiri (locksmith), Prof Dr Dragan Stanojević (social sustainability and gender equity) and Dr Ermelinda Mahmutaj (environmental sustainability) Training material is available on the EQET SEE website.
