Education for Employment

Target group: the key system actors: (1) the education sector institutions: Ministry of Education and Science, the VET Office, VET schools, municipalities; and (2) the private sector: economic chambers, branch associations, and private companies.

End beneficiaries: mainly youth (15-29), but also any employed women and men in need of upskilling to find more decent jobs. Special efforts to include more women.

Outcome 1: Improved vocational education and training system effectively and efficiently capacitates youth for the labour market

Outcome 2: Companies and business support organisations co-create and ensure the marketrelevance of vocational education and training

Resultados previstos:  

-Regulatory and institutional framework of the VET system, is improved

-Capacities of the key public institutions and private sector actors (associations,

companies) for dual VET implementation are strengthened

-Awareness of youth, especially women, on dual VET as promising path to gainful employment is increased

-Active labour market measures for employment are more market oriented

-Companies are more engaged in VET

Resultados de las fases anteriores:  

Non-formal vocational skills development: The effectiveness and efficiency of the active labour market measures on training were improved, enabling unemployed have access to market-relevant training, and successfully find employment. Thanks to the better market-orientation of non-formal training 5‘336 persons (71% youth, 48% women, 15 % vulnerable) were trained, out of whom 2’729 (51% of the trained) employed.

Formal VET: a nationwide introduction of dual VET in the school year of 2021/2022. E4E facilitated the cooperation between the public institutions and the private sector, resulting in 1’400 students enrolled in dual VET, and obtained practical training in over 200 companies.

Helvetas, the Macedonian Civic Education Centre as a local subcontractor and the

Economic Chamber as a strategic partner