The 5th Meeting of the South East Europe Regional VET Network (SEEVET-Net) | ERI SEE

The 5th Meeting of the South East Europe Regional VET Network (SEEVET-Net) was held on 4-5 June, 2012, in Milocer, Montenegro. The meeting gathered the representatives of the VET institutions from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo*, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia as well as the representatives of the European Training Foundation (ETF), the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) and the Centre for Education Policy as the ERI SEE Interim Agency.

In its Work Programme for 2012 SEEVET-Net identified the Enhancement of mutual policy learning in VET through the exchange of experience on social partnership among EU member states and countries in SEE as one of its objectives. Development of vocational education and training and related social partnership forms in VET take place in all countries in the SEE region and social partnership mechanisms are almost always part of national development programmes for VET. At the same time, vocational education and training plays an increasing role as an infrastructural factor in the possibilities of enterprises to remain successfully competitive on the market. Having in mind the importance of the topic, the 5th meeting of SEEVET-Net was focused on social partnership models and best practice examples presentation and exchange of experiences regarding the social partnership issues.

This event was organised as two days meeting where the first day was focused on presentation of the state of play regarding the social partnership in SEE as well as on well functioning social partnership models including overview of the situation and initiatives regarding the social partnership in other countries. The second day was dedicated to the SEEVET-Net annual meeting and enhancement of institutional cooperation through discussion on the future regional priorities.

The meeting was jointly organized by the National VET Centre of Montenegro and the Centre for Education Policy/ERI SEE Interim Agency.

• Agenda
• List of participants
• Report

* This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence