Target area:	Linking Higher Education & Society
Sub-target area:	Human Resource Development
Target countries:	Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia
Duration:	January 2009 - January 2012
Partners:	University of Zenica Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje University of Montenegro University of Novi Sad FH Joanneum – University of Applied Sciences Catholic University College Ghent University of Girona
Budget line:	TEMPUS IV Grant
Amount (€):	649.153,00

Project description

COMPETENCE addresses the link between higher education and economy as one of the most crucial issues in the four Western Balkan target countries.

The main objective of the project is the development and advancement of procedures and tools for assessing and improving the match between competences developed by institutions of higher education and those required by the labor market in the four Western Balkan partner countries. Finally, a tool will be created for an up-to date linking strategy based on the European Qualifications Framework. These tools will be based on knowledge transfer from EU partner universities, which have significant experience applying similar tools.

In each of the four target countries, Competence and Observation Centers (COC) will be established which will serve as national knowledge transfer and training centers for higher education institutions, relevant stakeholders and as service centers for their home university institutions. Furthermore, the COCs will have an observatory and documentation function about national strategy developments and processes.