18 fortunate cities in the Danube Region will develop innovative tools to attract and retain talented young workforce with the creation of useful, concrete guides, plans and tools. Thanks to a new EU co-financed project, talented young workforce may not go to work in the capital or big cities or abroad, instead they will stay in the local area thus contributing to the local economy.

In the framework of the project VET School Partnership Network, schools from Baden-Württemberg and Bosnia and Herzegovina met to exchange best practices about vocational education and training in Ellwangen, Germany on 9-10 March 2020.  The goal of the event was for the participating [...]

The PRO-YOUTH Training took place on 27-31 January 2020, organized by the European Foundation for Education. EFE is the Lead Partner of PRO-YOUTH, an Erasmus+ project aiming to help integrate unemployed young people into the job market by developing [...]

The project “VET School Partnership Network”, implemented by Kolping Berufsbildung and the European Foundation for Education and supported by the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, sets out to strengthen the capacities in vocational education in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As the country struggles with high unemployment and disparities between vocational education offers and labour market needs, the aim of the project is that VET schools better align their training programs with labour market needs. On the long-term, they should systematically include representatives of industry, business and commerce as training partners from local and regional levels.

“Building cohesion for a shared prosperity in the Danube Region” – this was the motto of the 8th EUSDR Annual Forum where EDU-LAB was among the five selected Danube Transnational Programme projects that were presented. The 8th EUSDR Annual Forum was organised on 27-28 June in Bucharest, with the key topics being connectivity and regional mobility, digitalization, tourism and post-2020 EU policy design. As Romania has been holding the 2019 EUSDR Presidency, the conference was co-organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania, the European Commission and the Danube Transnational Program. Just like in previous years, high-level officials, experts of different fields and representatives of DTP projects came together to discuss the developments and future strategy in the Danube Region.

A last stakeholder event of EDU-LAB was held in Romania on 25-26 June, hosted by EDU-LAB partner, the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. The aim of the event was to exchange experiences with local stakeholders through presenting project results and learning about successful cooperation models in the region between businesses and the Lucian Blaga University.

Watch the new EDU-LAB video showcasing the final conference in Zagreb on 16 May:

The Knowledge at Work Foundation hosted the second transnational project meeting of our Erasmus+ project, PRO-YOUTH in Zagreb on 5 June 2019. The meeting focused on setting up the management structure of the project consortium, sharing the results already achieved, planning further activities and the dissemination of results.

The 2-day final conference of EDU-LAB, entitled “Better Chances for Young People in the Danube Region” was opened in Zagreb on 16 May, hosted by the European Foundation for Education, Germany, and Foundation Knowledge at Work, Croatia. EDU-LAB partners, stakeholders and those interested in the project came together to celebrate the achievements of the 2,5-year project, including the development of the New Danubian Governance Model and the accreditation of the professional Bachelor`s programme in Slovakia.

The 10th Meeting of the Joint Governmental Commission Baden-Württemberg – Croatia was held on 14-15 February 2019 in Stuttgart. The European Foundation for Education was invited as experts to discuss possibilities for education-related cooperation between the two countries.