The EQET SEE project, funded by the Austrian Development Agency, was approved in October 2022 and is expected to run for three years with the aim at contributing to the reduction of youth unemployment in South Eastern Europe by supporting the development of labour-market oriented, socially inclusive and high quality education and training systems in the region.

 The project will focus on increasing the labour market relevance of VET provision and enhancing quality assurance (aspects of external evaluation of institutions) in pre-tertiary education. It is coordinated by the ERI SEE Secretariat as the lead partner, in cooperation with the local partners European Training Foundation and WB6 CIF and strategic partners OeAD and Standing International Conference of Inspectorates (SICI). At the level of implementation, the project partners are VET agencies, chambers of commerce, and qualification agencies from Western Balkan 6 (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia and Serbia) and quality assurance agencies in pre-tertiary education from WB6 and Moldova (with ANACEC as a partner).

 The main focus of the project is:

• The development of regionally based labour market oriented occupational and qualifications standards (QS) and VET curricula incorporating work-based learning
• Assuring the quality of VET provision through developing supporting measures and material
• Supporting external quality developments and quality culture through the revision of QA (external evaluation) methodologies, accompanying instruments and tools
• Supporting internal quality developments for quality agencies themselves through regional quality standards, procedures, and trainings.

For more information on the EQET SEE project, please visit https://www.erisee.org/a-new-regional-project-eqet-see-started/