12 June, 2018

PROGRAMME
Tuesday, 12 June 2018.

Moderator of the conference: Dragan Ilić, journalist

09:30 – 10:00

Registration of participants

10:00 – 10:30

Opening speeches

  • Gabrijela Grujić, Assistant Minister, Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia
  • Leonie Reimers, Head of Development Cooperation, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Serbia
  • Mirjana Kovačević, Chief of Centre for Education, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia

10:30 – 11:05

Keynote speech:

  • Thomas Mayr, Managing Director, ibw Austria – Research & Development in VET

11:05 – 11:10

Short movie

11:10 – 11:45

Coffee break

11:45 – 12:45

National model of dual education - Recent developments in Serbia and current practice

  • Gabrijela Grujić, Assistant Minister, Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development
  • Mirjana Kovačević, Chief of Centre for Education, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia

    with support of school principals and companies’ representatives who will share their experiences about working together through short testimonies:

  • Mira Lekić, Acting Director of the Trade school from Belgrade
  • Dragan Kovačević, Training Expert, VIP mobile company
  • Milivoje Đorđević, Director of the Technical school from Vlasotince
  • Vladica Stanković, Director at "Gruner Serbian" from Vlasotince
  • Dragan Tucaković, Director of the Technical school from Užice
  • Nataša Pančić, HR Director at the Copper Mill Sevojno

12:45 – 13:30

Expert interviews and discussions

  • Alper Dincer, Principal Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development:Models of cooperation between public and private sector (employers) on WBL in WB countriesM
  • Stefan Thomas, VET Specialist, European Training Foundation: Achieving complementarity between skills and labor market – mission possible?

    Interviewer: Tina Šarić, Director, Education Reform Initiative of South Eastern Europe

13:30 – 14:30

Lunch

14:30 – 15:30

Parallel Working Groups

  • WG 1 - Employment
    Introduction speech: Miloš Bogunović, Human resources manager at cargo-partner, Lara Lebedinski, Researcher, Foundation for the Advancement of Economics and Institute of Economic Sciences and Tijana Samardžić, HR partner, VIP mobile company

    - Group work and discussion
    Moderators: Ivana Kovačević and Ana Stojanović, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia

  • WG 2 - Quality Management
    Introduction speech: Gordana Kovačev, Director, Economic trade school Bečej

    - Group work and discussion
    Moderators: Tatijana Glišić, Institute for the Improvement of Education

  • WG 3 - VET Permeability
    Introduction speech: Kurt Schmid, Senior Researcher, ibw Austria – Research & Development in VET

    - Group work and discussion
    Moderators: Jasminka Čekić Marković and Dejan Stanković, Centre for Education Policy

  • WG 4 - Youth at risk
    Introduction speech: Lida Kita, Specialist in VET and Social Inclusion - Country Desk Serbia and Turkey, European Training Foundation

    - Group work and discussion
    Moderators: Jelena Marković, consultant

15:30 – 16:15

Coffee break and presentation of the WGs conclusions (World cafe method)

16:15 – 16:30

Work based learning mission accomplished - success stories

  • Miloš Tatić, former student of the Technical school from Pećinci and employee of the company Robert Bosch d.o.o.
  • Zoltan Kuti, former student of the Technical school from Subotica and employee of the company Montavar Metalna Lola

16:30 – 17:15

Closing speech: How can we wisely approach an unpredictable future?

  • Clemens Wieland, Senior Project Manager, Bertelsmann Stiftung

17:15 – 17:30

Closing remarks

  • Ann-Kathrin Hentschel, Leader of the project “Reform of Vocational Education and Training in Serbia”, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH