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

Area: Education and Skills
Reform measure 16: Qualifications oriented to labour market requirements
Activities planned in 2018-2020
  • In order to establish and implement the NQF system, adopt the Law on the National Qualifications Framework of Serbia, establish the Council for NQF, the Agency for Qualifications and Sectoral Councils as the institutional framework of the NQF, establish the NQF registry, develop non-formal and informal learning validation system so that qualifications can be acquired both on the basis of work or life experience through a special procedure, as well as link the NQF with the European Qualifications Framework.
  • In order to implement the dual education system, it is planned to establish a commission for the development and implementation of dual education with the Government of the RS, adopt bylaws in accordance with the Law on dual education, develop and improve the model of student cooperatives, student internship and career guidance and counselling, modernise and create new educational profiles for the dual model of education, as well as establish an analytical system for monitoring and evaluation of dual and entrepreneurial education.
Area: Employment and labour markets
Reform measure 17: Improving the effectiveness of active labour market policies with special emphasis on youth, redundant workers and the long-term unemployed
Activities planned in 2018-2020
  • Further improvement of the employment policy in line with the elements specified in the national Action Plan for Chapter 19;
  • Enhancing the employability and stimulating the employment of hard-to-employ categories through the implementation of target-oriented active labour market policies;
  • Capacity building of authorities responsible for employment affairs in order to ensure better targeting and higher efficiency of active labour market policies, especially of the NES, through the reform of this institution;
  • Improvement of the methods and techniques for monitoring and evaluation of active labour market policies;
  • Development and strengthening of cooperation among local-level stakeholders and coordination of their activities in the employment policy system;
  • the adoption of Action Plan for the Implementation of the National Youth Strategy 2018–2020, which will be a basis for Ministry of Youth and Sport to continue with implementation of activities which will enhance conditions for employment, self-employment, entrepreneurship and youth employment.

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