SUPPORTING THE GOVERNANCE OF A CB EQF 5 EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-A IPA Italy Albania Montenegro (South Adriatic)

Date of latest update: 2025-11-19

Description

Description (EN):

GOVERNANCE further capitalizes on HISTEK and HISTEK Plus Projects and aims to favor and consolidate the gradual sharing, between the 3 countries, of a common cultural background, functional to the effective future implementation of a 5 EQF Level CB training system. The main challenge is to enable efficient and solid channels of communication between the educational systems of IT-AL-ME, to make cooperation effective and progressively guarantee real commitment to the implementation of a future EQF 5 education system at CB level. The overall objective is to start testing this new cooperation approach, to define a common vision and processes that can lead to concrete synergies between the 3 educational systems, in order to strengthen economic, social and territorial cohesion by reducing the gap. The new cooperation approach will be experimented starting with the co-participation in 3 capacity building seminars, during which the partners of the 3 countries will have the opportunity to share best practices and discuss on 3 key issues linked to EQF 5 education: - connecting the Higher-VET to the S3 of the territories, linking businesses to education, and making the educational offer more attractive in every single area - enhancing synergy on the mutual recognition of the qualification, working on the transferability of the model - sharing possible integrations and complementary in the use of public funds (national, regional and European) to support cross-border education systems After that, PPs will start to concretely cooperate on a first operational step, through the elaboration of a Joint Action Plan, including recommendations, that can lead to concrete interactions between the educational systems of the 3 countries, on the key issues faced during the CB seminars. Changes are expected in terms of increased capacity to approach the joint CB educational framework with the same vision, with integrated knowledge and with a systemic capacity to co-create effective synergies.

Actual Achievements (EN): On 25 and 26 of July ITS A. Cuccovillo Foundation as the Lead Partner (LP) organized a 2-days seminar focused on the topic of promoting the joint CB 5th level EQF training offer by intercepting and enhancing common territorial smart specializations.

Project outputs: Joint Action Plan(EN)

Thematic information

Knowledge and technology transfer

Priority specific objective: ISO6.2. Enhance efficient public administration by promoting legal and administrative cooperation and cooperation between citizens, civil society actors and institutions, in particular with a view to resolving legal and other obstacles in border regions (strands A, C, D and, where appropriate, strand B)

Type of intervention: 173 Enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement territorial cooperation projects and initiatives in a cross-border, transnational, maritime and inter-regional context

Partners (4)

Lead Partner: FONDAZIONE ITS “ANTONIO CUCCOVILLO"

Partner’s ID if not PIC: IT07267740723 | presidente@pec.itsmeccatronicapuglia.it (EN)

Address: VIA DIVISIONE ACQUI SN., 70126 Bari, Italy

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Total budget: EUR 25 177.68

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 20 142.14

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 5 035.54

Universiteti "Aleksander Moisiu"Durres

Name: Universiteti "Aleksander Moisiu"Durres

Partner’s ID if not PIC: K61829504T

Address: LI. Rr. Taulantia, Currila, Durrès, Albania, 2001 Durres, Albania

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Total budget: EUR 23 143.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 19 671.55

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 3 471.45

Regione Puglia

Name: Regione Puglia

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 01105250722 | dipartimento.lavoroistruzioneformazione@pec.rupar.puglia.it (EN)

Address: VIA GENTILE, 76120 Bari, Italy

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Regional public authority

Total budget: EUR 14 607.42

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 11 685.93

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 2 921.49

Ministarstvo prosvjete Crne Gore

Name: Ministarstvo prosvjete Crne Gore

Department: Department for International cooperations and EU funds in Minisry

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 891361422

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 02014432 | kabinet@mp.gov.me (EN)

Address: Vaka Đurovića b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro

Department address: Vaka Đurovića b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro

Legal status: public

Organisation type: National public authority

Website: https://www.gov.me/mps

Total budget: EUR 20 992.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 17 843.20

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 3 148.80

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Aleksander Moisiu University Durrès

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Apulia Region

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Ministry of Education of Montenegro

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FOUNDATION ITS “ANTONIO CUCCOVILLO"

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Project name (EN): SUPPORTING THE GOVERNANCE OF A CB EQF 5 EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

Project acronym: GOVERNANCE

Project ID: SA-0100125

Project start date: 2024-02-01

Project end date: 2025-05-31

Project status: closed

Relevant linked projects:

HISTEK Project (EN) | The GOVERNANCE project capitalises HISTEK - High Specialized Technicians in Kets - aimed at enhancing SMEs’ capacities of competitiveness, innovation and internationalization, creating a new CB Cluster SMEs/Training Organizations/Public Institutions sharing the best practice of the ITS model (5th EQF) in Albania and Montenegro,supporting the future implementation of a new joint tertiary education course to train high specialised technicians in line with SMEs needs. It produced a model of needs analysis, response elaboration and ecosystem creation, functional to the generation of a common cultural approach to the issue of CB training. (EN), HISTEK Plus Project (EN) | The GOVERNANCE project also capitalises the conclusions that emerged from the joint work of the representatives of the Ministries of Education of the three countries during the HISTEK Plus project - High Specialized Technicians in KETs PLUS - (Interreg IPA CBC Italy-Albania-Montenegro Programme), a capitalization proposal of the results achieved by HISTEK, aimed at boosting the Cluster increasing the number of SMEs and Training Institutions interested in joining the network which will support the future joint implementation of the course. It further worked on the context conditions that need to be integrated to move from the design phase to the testing phase of the new joint educational system. (EN), Communication 'Regional Policy contributing to smart growth in Europe 2020' (EN) | The project is in synergy with the Communication (COM(2010) 553 final), in particular with the “smart specialisation platform” foreseen in this document in order to provide assistance to national and regional innovation policy-makers for the development and review of smart specialisation strategies, bringing together the relevant EU funding programmes and policy support activities in research, regional, enterprise, innovation, information society-related, sustainability, health and education policies.
(EN), Puglia Region
“Agenda for Work 2021-2027”
(EN) | The project capitalises this Agenda adopted by Puglia Region with D.G.R. 994 on 12.07.2022 after a participated path, envisaging the diffusion of its model in terms of method for the shared construction of measures integrated with each other, aiming at increasing employment rates, ensuring quality of work and new skills, fight discrimination and make training policies more coherent, innovative and effective.
The Agenda is the integrated strategic framework of the local initiatives that will be undertaken to increase employment rates, ensure quality work and new skills, creating synergy between the different instruments that will finance the policies of work, development and inclusion in the coming years.
(EN), The Higher Education in Smart Specialisation (HESS) project
(EN) | The HESS project has been developed in collaboration with DG Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (EAC) since 2016 and seeks to engage stakeholders from Higher Education in regional development processes and regional innovation ecosystems to ensure places contribute to local and broader European growth and transformation. Smart specialisation links higher education institutions to their territories: the places where universities are based matter. Higher education - at the interface of research, education and innovation - is a key asset in boosting regional growth and green and digital transitions. In the 2021-2027 programming period there is an enhanced focus upon the development of human capital as part of the Smart Specialisation process under the ERDF specific objective “Skills for smart specialisation, industrial transition and entrepreneurship”.
https://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/w/higher-education-for-smart-specialisation-a-handbook-1
(EN), The Regional Smart Specialization Strategy of Puglia Region “Smart Puglia 2030” (EN) | The project will draws on this Regional Strategy, adopted with D.G.R. 569 on 27.04.2022, elaborated by Puglia Region in collaboration with the Strategic Agency for Technology and Innovation - ARTI Puglia, through an intense listening process, consultation and involvement starting from the beginning of 2021, with the proactive participation of all the actors of the regional innovation ecosystem. (EN)

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 83 920.10

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 69 342.82

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 82.63%

Co-financing sources:

IPA/IPA II/IPA III: Amount, EUR 69 342.82. Co-financing rate, 82.63%.

Investments, deliverables, policy contributions

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Deliverables:

CB Capacity building seminar CBT n. 1 Minutes
CB Capacity building seminar CBT n. 2 Minutes
CB Capacity building seminar CBT n. 3 Minutes
N. 3 Context Analysis Country Reports
N. 3 Recommendation Papers
N. 3 Focus Group Testing
Joint Action Plan

Contribution to wider strategies and policies:

EUStrategyAdriaticIonianRegion The project contributes in a transversal way to all the 4 EUSAIR Pillars, promoting economic and social growth in the region by improving its attractiveness and competitiveness. In fact the Joint Action Plan will include recommendations to promote and support the launch of a CB EQF 5 educational system, by harmonising strategies and procedures across the borders; this will give all Programme areas the opportunity to improve, regardless the specific sector, and also developing high skills through the new EQF 5 offer in CB perspective, also in line with one of the cross-cutting Strategy’s issues, namely “research, innovation and SMEs development”, aiming at boosting high-skilled employment, growth and competitiveness.
Other The proposal contributes to the objectives set out in the EC Communication COM(2020)625 final, especially in terms of promoting the dual freedom for learners and teachers to be mobile, considering that learning mobility and cooperation across borders are strong drivers for enhancing the quality of education and training institutions. The the second Capacity building seminar organised in Albania will be focused on European good practices of mutual recognition of qualifications, and on definition of the prerequisites for the transferability of educational models in a CB dimension; moreover, the three country reports will include recommendations on, among the others, how to facilitate the process of mutual recognition of 5th level qualifications.
Other The New Strategic Agenda for the EU for 2019 – 2024 adopted by the European Council on 20 June 2019 stresses that Member States “must step up investment in people’s skills and education”. The project proposal can contribute to this ambition, considering that it foresees that each partner country's report will include recommendations also on how to manage funds (national, regional, European) for supporting EQF 5 educational offer in a CB perspective.
Other The project, supporting the launch of a Cross-Border EQF 5 educational system, by harmonising strategies and procedures across the borders, contributes to making the European Pillar of Social Rights’ principles concrete, especially the first, according to which everyone has the right to quality and inclusive education, training and life-long learning in order to maintain and acquire skills that enable them to participate fully in society and manage successful transitions in the labour market.
Other The project fits into the framework of the 2023 European Year of Skills COM(2022) 526 final, announced by President von der Leyen in her State of the European Union Address, which stresses the importance to match companies’ needs “with people’s aspirations” and skills sets with opportunities on the job market, especially for the green and digital transition and the economic recovery, and facilitating the“recognition of qualifications also of third country nationals”, that is also one of the ambitions of GOVERNANCE project.
Other The proposal contributes to achieving the SDGs in particular Goal 4, Quality Education, Target 4.4 which provides, by 2030, to substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship. It also contributes to Goal 8, in particular Target 8.3 aiming at promoting development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, Target 8.5 aiming to achieving full and productive employment and decent work for all.
Other In view of the project ambition of supporting the launch of a Cross-Border EQF 5 educational system, oriented to the training of high specialised professionals in line with the SMES’s needs in a CB perspective, it is aligned with the idea of “skills for jobs” embedded in the 2020 European Skills Agenda COM(2020)274 final (see in particular the second building block of the Agenda, which takes a comprehensive approach to up and reskilling and starts with reliable skills intelligence to deliver training relevant for the labour market).
Other The project contributes to the implementation of the Commission work programme 2023, “A Union standing firm and united” in particular concerning the priority “A Europe fit for digital age”, within which is highlighted that, in order to boost a workforce with the demanded skills and foster the competitiveness of European companies, in particular SMEs, and to realise the full potential of the digital and green transitions in a socially fair manner, 2023 will be the European Year of Skills, to deliver the necessary reskilling and upskilling of our workforce and attract the right skills to our continent. It will also contribute to the initiatives, mentioned in this work programme, aimed at implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights action plan.

Programme Common Output Indicator:

RCO 083 - Strategies and action plans jointly developed, Measurement unit:

Programme Common Result Indicator:

RCR 079 - Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations, Measurement unit:

Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSAIR

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