Enhancing Vocational Education and Training in Moldova

This project aims to improve the socio-professional integration of young people in Moldova by providing them with relevant technical and vocational skills for decent jobs and entrepreneurship. The expected outcome is that young people, including women and vulnerable groups, gain necessary skills and knowledge to access the labor market and start their own businesses. The project targets 3,183 direct beneficiaries, including VET administrators, teachers, students, and young people interested in self-employment or entrepreneurial activities.

Key Takeaways:

• The project has four expected results: ensuring the socio-professional integration of VET graduates, upskilling and/or reskilling vocational competences of young people, creating new paths towards self-employment/entrepreneurial activities, and integrating gender perspectives in VET to overcome discriminatory cultural norms and community practices.
• The project targets 3,183 direct beneficiaries, including VET administrators, teachers, students, young people (including vulnerable groups) interested in upskilling and/or reskilling, and personnel from the National Employment Agency (ANOFM).
• Measures 1 aims to raise VET students' employability by developing a curriculum supplementing the Personal Development course and approving and implementing career guidance systems at the institutional level.
• Measure 2 involves conducting a mapping of training providers, developing the capacities of training providers, and providing ANOFM staff with training on entrepreneurship initiatives and the voucher system.
• Measure 3 focuses on supporting young people in developing viable business plans, mentoring, and coaching them to launch or extend entrepreneurial activities.
• Measure 4 aims to introduce concrete objectives and actions to overcome gender disparity in recruitment and retention in VET institutions, create a dialogue platform, and organize summer schools for young women on career guidance and development of entrepreneurial spirit.

Statistics:

• The project aims to target 3,183 direct beneficiaries.
• The project duration is from May 2023 to April 2027.
• The total funding amount is EUR 961,600.
• The project is implemented by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) with funding from the Austrian Development Agency (ADA).
• The project's expected outcome is that young people gain relevant technical and vocational skills for decent jobs and entrepreneurship.

Sources:

• Austrian Development Agency (ADA) (2022) - No online date available
• Austrian Development Agency (ADA) (no date) - Austrian Development Agency Zelinkagasse 2 1010 Wien +43 1 90399 - 0 office@ada.gv.at https://www.entwicklung.at/
• Short description (no date) - CEDA - Center for Entrepreneurial Education and Business Support Country: Moldova