Economic Reform Programme (ERP) in Montenegro (2018 – 2020)

Area: Education and Skills
Priority Reform Measure 18: Developing qualifications in line with the labour market needs
Activities planned in 2018
  • Development of 15 educational curricula and a minimum of 250 teachers trained to implement the learning-outcome-based curricula.
Activities planned in 2019
  • Development of 20 educational curricula and a minimum of 350 teachers trained for implementation of learning-outcome-based curricula.
Activities planned in 2020
  • Completion of the modernization of all vocational education curricula.
Priority Reform Measure 19: Carrying out apprenticeships with employers
Activities planned in 2018
  • 258 students who signed individual education agreements in the 2017/2018 school year will be apprentices with employers.
Activities planned in 2019
  • 250 students who will sign individual education agreements in the 2018/2019 school year will be apprentices with employers.
Activities planned in 2020
  • It is estimated that the new generation of enrolled students who will be apprentices with employers in the 2019/2020 school year will number 300 students.
Area: Employment and labour markets
Priority Reform Measure 20: Implementing legal provisions in the field of the labour market with focus on active employment policy
Activities planned in 2018
  • The development of enabling regulations will commence after the adoption of the legislative provisions. The measures of active employment policy (job-skills training for independent work, education and training of adults, apprenticeships with employers and public works) will be undertaken. Additionally, measures of professional rehabilitation and the employment of disabled people, as well as the activities to support self-employment will be carried out.
Activities planned in 2019
  • Completion of activities on adopting enabling acts for the purpose of the full implementation of legislative provisions, with a special focus on implementing the measures of active employment policy and suppressing informal labour.
Activities planned in 2020
  • Full implementation of the legislative provisions.