Kultur Contact
School Meets Business
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n 2019 continued the collaboration of the Volunteers Centre Skopje with the Austrian KulturKontakt with the continuation of the project entitled “School Meets Business� financed by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research, in cooperation with the Macedonian Ministry for Education and Science and the Center for Vocational Education and Training. This regional project involving also Albania and Kosovo aimes to strengthen the capacities and competences of the VET high schools for better and improved professional collaboration with the economic community through
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implementation of Work Based Learning and promotion of socalled school coordinators as a link between the schools and the companies. The aim of the project was the promotion of the quality and the importance of the vocational education on the labor market through strengthening the practical work (Work Based Learning) as a reform priority in all three countries involved. The role of Volunteers Centre Skopje was coordination, organization and providing the logistical support on the events, participants and workshops that took place in Macedonia.
