ALLVET kick-off meeting

HE and VET alliance establishment according to Bologna Principals implementation via VET teachers’ capacity building

On 9–10 March 2020, the ALLVET kick-off meeting was held at the Faculty of Technical Sciences of the University of Kragujevac in Čačak.

Goal of this initial meeting was to make sure all partners understand their role in achieving the project objectives, to introduce the institutions, to set criteria and procedures for information exchange between partners and for management and decision-making structures, and to define the functions of the working groups and the local coordinators of the partner universities.

The meeting was attended by 5 universities from the European Union, 5 universities from Russia and 3 universities from Kazakhstan.

Participants were warmly welcomed by the Dean of the Faculty, Professor, and by Dr Danijela Milošević, Vice-Dean.

All partners presented their universities and shared information about their possible contribution to the project.

The project coordinators explained in detail the project objectives, the indicative schedule, the Work Packages and other necessary information.

Project participants discussed in detail the preparation of training modules, their content and the format of training documents.

Financial matters, equipment purchases, trainings and project management were also discussed in detail.

Meeting outcomes:

• All consortium members are aware of the project objectives and the methodology for achieving results.
• All consortium partners understand the Quality Assurance (QA) tasks and can use QA effectively as a process.
• Separate EU and Partner Country steering groups (one member per institution) and an Internal Evaluation Working Group (IEWG) were formed.