18/11/2025
🌍 Yesterday in Moravske Toplice, Slovenia, we gathered for the final coordination meeting of our Move to Improve project, bringing our two-year and collaboration to a meaningful close. Partners from across the Western Balkans and the EU reunited one last time to reflect on achievements, lessons learned, and the future of regional VET cooperation.
✨ The day began with welcoming remarks setting an inspiring tone for a day built on reflection, transparency, and shared commitment. Throughout the morning, partner organisations from 🇦🇱 Albania, 🇧🇦 Bosnia & Herzegovina, 🇽🇰 Kosovo, 🇲🇪 Montenegro, 🇷🇸 Serbia, 🇸🇰 Slovakia, 🇸🇮 Slovenia shared how international programmes, teacher development, and mobility initiatives helped address skills mismatches, strengthened school–company cooperation, and supported students in gaining the competencies needed in today’s digital and globalised economy. 💡🌍
Partners revisited the project’s key actions, like the on-the-spot staff training in all the Western Balkan partner countries, the three up-skilling seminar 📚 and of course the long-term apprenticeships abroad for seven VET students. 🌐 Each action became a powerful tool for strengthening both teachers’ and students’ capacities across the region.
During the day we reviewed final documentation and reporting 🗂️, ensuring that every activity and outcome was captured clearly. One of the most valuable moments of the day was looking ahead, exploring how we can continue supporting teachers, expanding Work-Based Learning in more schools and companies, and keeping this partnership alive beyond the project itself. 🤝
Partners also reflected on challenges faced during implementation, supporting disadvantaged learners, ensuring gender balance, and navigating administrative complexity. These honest insights will guide stronger, more inclusive initiatives in the future. 💬
As the day concluded, one message stood out: Move to Improve created more than results, it built a committed community working for better opportunities, stronger regional cooperation, and a more inclusive VET landscape in the Western Balkans.
🚀 Though the project formally ended, the partnerships, knowledge, and motivation will continue to grow and as one delegate said we need to move to improve. 🌱✨ Here’s to two years of learning, collaboration, and lasting impact — and to everything that will follow.
🙏 A heartfelt thank you to all our partners Albania Privredna komora Republike Srpske Privredna komora Republike Srpske Education Center - KEC Centar za stručno obrazovanje Privredna komora Vojvodine
Ljudska univerza Lendava for their dedication, collaboration and commitment throughout this project. Your expertise, openness, and teamwork made every step of this two-year journey meaningful and impactful. Together, we proved once again that real change happens when organisations join forces with a shared vision.
ℹ️ The "Move to Improve!" project is received funding from the European Union. With this project we move to improve and enhance vocational education across Central Europe and the Western Balkans through international programs and promotion of work-based learn.
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