2024

National project Centres of Excellence for Vocational Education and Training

In 2024, the Ministry of Education launched the national project entitled Centres of Excellence for Vocational Education and Training. The project aims to create and verify the system of Centres of Excellence for Vocational Education and Training in the Slovak Republic, which will increase the quality, flexibility, and adaptability of vocational education and training with an emphasis on the development of adult education processes in selected areas of the economy. 

In the next step, the project will create the methodology of professional development of pedagogical employees, provide education to teachers of vocational subjects, and vocational training teacher, and connect it with the education of instructors and main instructors, career advisors in relation to the activities of the newly created Centres of Excellence for Vocational Education and Training. 

The project aims to create at least eight pilot Centres of Excellence for Vocational Education and Training and the project’s target groups include employed people, pedagogical and professional employees, career advisors, as well as lectors and workers in adult education. The support of extended cooperation and involvement of partners in the Centres of Excellence for Vocational Education and Training system is also an important part of the project.

The project will be implemented throughout the whole of Slovakia by the State Institute of Vocational Education − a budgetary organisation of the Ministry of Education. The indicative amount of funding allocated for the call for submitting applications for non-refundable financial contributions is €13,247,803 from the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) sources. 
 

2023

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2022

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