VETpreneur – Vocational Education and Training PRovision with ENtrepreneurial Education Uptake the Region

VETpreneur provides a series of carefully designed capacity building activities – including mobility of educators and learners from Western Balkans partner countries: Albania, Bosnia and Hercegovina and Montenegro to the EU countries counterparts. The project addresses common regional and also country specific issues facing both youth and adults in the VET sector contexts as per the ETF assessments reports (Turin process reports) from 2020 and 2021. In doing so, the VETpreneur project mainstreams the use of EntreComp framework (entrepreneurship as a key competence) in formal and non-formal VET education and training in the Western Balkans. In formal VET education, it will be mainstreamed through student company program and development of innovative problem-based entrepreneurial lab’s, creation of toolkit and ToT training. In non-formal education and training, it will be promoted throughout VET centres for adults, through the networking events, and the creation of recognition tool.

In the Western Balkans, the objective of vocational education is to enable students to acquire knowledge and develop skills, as well as vocational and key competences that can respond to the demands of the modern society and market economy, and allow them to participate as equals in the labour market.The project promises to deliver on 3 specific objectives defined as follows:

• To introduce and support the application of EntreComp in the 3 Western Balkans VET systems
• To increase collaboration and links between formal and non-formal VET institutions in delivering and measuring entrepreneurial competence
• To increase work-based learning and professional development opportunities of staff and learners engaged in VET sector

1. Junior Achievement Serbia, RS (JAS) – SERBIA
2. Western Balkans Institute, RS (WEBIN) -SERBIA
3. Izobraževalni Centre Geoss d.o.o., SI – SLOVENIA
4. Center for Social Innovation (CSI) – CYPRUS
5. JA Europe, BE – BELGIUM
6. Junior Achievement Montenegro, ME – MONTENEGRO
7. Bureau for Education Services, ME – MONTENEGRO
8. MUNJA, BA – Bosnia and Herzegovina
9. Regional Development Agency Hercegovina (REDAH), BA – Bosnia and Herzegovina
10. Chamber of Commerce of Republika Srpska, BA – Bosnia and Herzegovin
11. Junior Achievement, AL – ALBANIA
12. VET school 26 Marsi, AL – ALBANIA