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On 27. of September 2013, ISSP representatives have presented the results of the project “Mapping of VET educational policies and practices for social inclusion and social cohesion“ that was conducted in Montenegro and 8 other countries (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Turkey and Israel). The project was realized by the LSE Entreprise with the support of ETF-a, while the research in Montenegro was conducted by the ISSP researchers.
The presentation was attended by the represenatives of Ministry of Education of Montenegro, VET Center, Chamber of Commerce, VET high schools, universities, as well as the researchers from LSE and ISSP.
The aim of the project is to deepen understanding of the main barriers and potential opportunities for building inclusive and equitable VET systems in the Western Balkans, Turkey and Israel, given the current social and economic challenges facing the region. There were six main tasks in the project: (i) to map the different policies towards VET, social inclusion and social cohesion in the Western Balkan countries, Turkey and Israel (WBTI countries) and assess the relationship between them (2) to map the influence of selection and tracking on social inclusion in the WBTI countries, (3) To map the extent of drop-out from vocational education in the WBTI countries and assess the influence of drop-put on social inclusion, (4) To map the different patterns of school based vocational education and apprenticeship systems and assess their influence on social inclusion in the WBTI countries,(5) To map the transition from vocational education to work in the WBTI countries and assess the different ways in which this transition reflects differences in social inclusion, (6) to map the role of VET in promoting social cohesion in the WBTI countries.
Three VET school from Montenegro participaed in the project: Secondary School of Civil Engineering “Ing. Marko Radevic ” from Podgorica, Secondary mixed school “Beco Pasic” from Plav and Agricultural High School from Bar. The schools were chosen by the Ministry of education of Montenengro and VET Center Montenegro.