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The University of Belgrade - Centre for Career Development and Student Counseling
The University of Padova - Career Service
The Swansea University - Careers and Employability Service
The University of Silesia in Katowice - Career Services
The University of Novi Sad - Centre for Career Development and Student Counseling
The University of Nis - Centre for Career Development and Student Consulting
The University of Kragujevac - Centre for Career Development and Student Counseling
University Singidunum - Career services
Student Conference of Serbian Universities
Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia
Ministry of Youth and Sport of the Republic of Serbia
Beogradska otvorena skola (Belgrade Open School)
Public Enterprise for electric energy transmission
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The University of Belgrade is the oldest and the largest university in Serbia, with over 89.000 students and 31 faculties divided into four groups: sciences and mathematics, technology and engineering sciences, medical sciences, social sciences and humanities. |
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The Careers and Employability Service offers a wide range of help: Individual Careers Guidance interviews; E-Guidance; Access to vacancy database; Work experience placements and work tasters; A programme of employer presentations on campus and an annual Employer Careers Fair; Advice on postgraduate study and funding; Help with securing work placements and study opportunities overseas; Help with finding term time employment; CV writing workshops and job interview practice sessions. |
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The University of Novi Sad was founded on June 28, 1960. having invested considerable efforts in intensifying international cooperation and participating in the process of university reforms in Europe. University of Novi Sad set up the Centre for Career Development and Student Counseling in order to connect academic and business community as well as to improve the level of employability of its students. |
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The University of Nis was founded in 1965 as a state HE institution and comprises 13 faculties: Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Occupational Safety, Faculty of Philosophy, Faculty of Physical Culture, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Faculty of Technology and Teacher-Training Faculty. The University of Nis presently has 25313 undergraduate and nearly 700 postgraduate students, 1515 teaching staff and more than 600 administrative and support staff. One of the leading principles of the University of Nis is to become a part of the European higher education area and to adjust its plans and programs against this aim, in the context of the reform of higher education system within the Tempus and other programs. The Careers project will improve functioning of the University Center for Career Development. |
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USGD was founded in 2005, in order to offer new opportunities and to create new leaders and business elite of Serbia as well as in the neighboring countries. USGD consists of the following faculties: Integrated faculties of Singidunum University (Faculty of Business, Informatics and Management, Tourism and Hospitality Management), Faculty of Business in Valjevo, Faculty of Economics, Finance and Administration, Media and Communications, Applied Ecology, Faculty of European Legal and Political Studies, Sremska Kamenica. |
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Student Conference of Serbian Universities is the highest students’ representative body in Serbia. It Represents 250.000 students from Serbia.
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Ministry of Youth and Sport is in charge for: Implementation of National Youth Strategy and Action Plan, development of the National Youth Policy, encouragement of youth to participate; protection of youth interests; education of young people in the fields of employment and voluntarily work; cooperation with the youth organizations; support to establishment and functioning of Youth Offices, enhancing the international cooperation; psychical culture, building sport infrastructural capacities; fulfilling rights of sportsmen, sport organizations and associations. |
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The Belgrade Open School (BOS) is non-profit educational organization. BOS contributes to the development of society through education, research and training to agents of social change and policy development in order to build modern democratic society. Relevant projects are implemented through the Centre for Career Guidance and Counselling that contributes to development of career guidance in Serbia in fields of education, training and employment since 2004; creation of diverse models for careers, capacity building and innovation in the field. |
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Public enterprise ”Elektromreza Srbije“ is electricity transmission system and market operator. Company is also engaged in maintenance of the country electricity transmission facilities. Public enterprise”Elektromreza Srbije“is member of various organizations such as: ENTSO-E (European transmission system operations association), UCTE, ETSO, SUDEL, EUROELECTRIC etc. |
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Infostud is a company which develops and maintains Internet sites and encourages development of e-business. Infostud moves in the direction of development of e-business through leading a strong group of highly visited web sites. Websites that Infostud is most famous for are job portal poslovi.infostud.com (central place of the labour market and web board career information in Serbia) and education portals prijemni.infostud.com and znanje.infostud.com (most known and used resources for information about formal and non-formal education possibilities in Serbia). With its job and education portals Infostud has a reach of over 550.000 people who visit our websites per month. (source: Google Analytics). The bases of our vision are constant positive changes, working improvements and investing in people, led by optimism, creativity, ambition and responsibility. Infostud was established in 2000. and has over 10 years of expirience in managing career websites. |
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Megatrend University is a successful private university consists of 11 faculties, 4 colleges, Megatrend Virtual University, Institute for New Technologies and TV Metropolis. Students are offered education in 8 campuses in 6 Serbian cities. After 22 years of continuous work in the field of higher education, our university has tens of thousands of active students and graduates, on all the levels of academic and scientific degrees. The faculties of Megatrend University offer vocational, academic, specialist, master and doctoral studies in various academic and scientific disciplines (business, international economics, management, art and design, culture and media, bio-farming, state administration, computer sciences). Megatrend University founded the Center for Career Development and training of students of Megatrend University - Megakarijera. Center aims to inform, educate, advise, facilitate and provide practice and training for students of the Megatrend University. |
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List of activities of the project
(DEV) 1. Information for university students
1.1. Establishing principles for labour market analyses
1.2. EU Training on system of career related information (Padua)
1.3. Conduct the survey on employers
1.4. Analyzing labour market as the bases for career decisions
1.5. Production of data base and interactive web site
1.6. Organisation of 5 round tables to present the results
(DEV) 2. Information about university students
2.1. Survey on employers to assess their needs for information
2.2. EU Seminar on employers surveys (Padua)
2.3. Results of the survey to tailor the questionnaires
2.4. Organising education market analyses
2.5. Creation of information material for employers
2.6. Distribution of information materials to employers
(DEV) 3. Cooperation with academic staff
3.1. Creating the plan for cooperation
3.2. Creating team of associates
3.3. Design and production of CareerS-kit
3.4. Organising info sessions with representatives of academic staff and students
3.5. Creating careers info points at the faculties
3.6. Organising promotion for student population
(DEV) 4. Cooperation with employers
4.1. Analysing examples of best EU practices
4.2. Round table with presentations of best EU practices
4.3. Preparing a package of services for employers
4.4. Piloting programs in cooperation with employers
4.5. Organising workshop for exchange of experiences
(DEV) 5. Strengthening capacities
5.1. Snapshot of the current state and perspectives
5.2. Organisation of workshop to present the snapshot
5.3. Design of the training for the career services staff
5.4. Organisation of trainings in EU
5.5. Monitoring by the EU partner
5.6. Purchasing equipment and literature
5.7. Development of E-services of career centres
(DEV) 6. National Programme and Methodology for CGC
6.1. Forming the team of experts working on this WP
6.2. Analyses of existing programs for CGC and the Methodology
6.3. First Draft of Program and First Draft of Methodology
6.4. Public Discussion on both Documents
6.5. Development of the Final Version of both Documents
6.6. Presentation of both documents
(QPLN) 7. Quality control
7.1. Project Quality Plan creation and proposal to Project partners
7.2. Agreement upon the control of the quality, completion etc.
7.3. Internal Quality Review Committee appointment
7.4. Development of the internal and external evaluation templates
7.5. Development of the SOW and reviewer for the Q. assurance
7.6. Orientation and training of the external reviewer
7.7. Development of the quality assessment format together with the external reviewer
(EXP) 8. Sustainability
8.1. Creating the National university network of CC
8.2. Creating the Forum for CGC
8.3. Creating Strategic plan for development of CS
8.4. Initiating adoption of the National program for CGC (6.5)
8.5. Initiating recognition of trainings for active career management
8.6. Establishing Mentoring Network of EU partners
(DISS) 9. Dissemination
9.1. Creating project leaflet and branded material
9.2. Creating web-site of the project
9.3. Organizing Dissemination conferences and events
9.4. Creating mailing lists to distribute information
(MNGT) 10. Management
10.1. Kick-off meeting and establishing management structure
10.2. Regular Steering Committee meetings
10.3. Regular Consortium meetings
10.4. National Project Team meetings
10.5. University Teams meetings
10.6. Daily project coordination and administration
10.7. Financial Audit
Objectives
Wider objective:
Development of Career Guidance Aimed at improving Higher Education in Serbia
Specific objectives are:
- Development of Services for Career Information, Guidance and Education aiming to increase youth employability,
- Enabling wider accessibility and variety of programs in Career guidance at Higher Education Institutions,
- Raising the level of recognizing importance of Career Guidance by the policy makers and other stake holders and
- Development of CGC Programme for Youth and Methodology for CGC centers at Serbian HE institution.
Description of the project
This project will be realized as a Structural Measure at the national level in Serbia through six development and four general work-packages, following the Tempus IV priorities and the general Tempus guidelines.
Choosing the subject of Career Guidance is possible to explain within at least two perspectives:
- considering the importance of career guidance in achieving goals related to education and employment
- status and perspectives of career guidance in Serbia, especially perceived from the perspective of national strategic documents
Today’s Europe is highly diverse and pluralistic and it is facing several simultaneous and parallel challenges. Among the others, youth unemployment is becoming a more pressing problem at a European level. Serbia is dealing with similar problems. Beside high rate of unemployment, Serbia has just about 7% highly educated population, students on average take twice as long to complete their studies, on average only 15% of students complete their studies, while total number of students who completed studies is about 60%. These are just some of alarming data collected as a result of research of various associations and monitoring efficiency of studies at public universities in Serbia. In this reality framework, high quality education and training, as well as career guidance and counselling services in higher education gain significance. There is a strong degree of political momentum in the EU and in the individual Member States as information, guidance and counselling are considered key strategic components for implementing lifelong learning and employment strategies at national and regional levels. It is indesputable that career guidance contributes to the accomplishing of important goals in higher education – contributes to higher efficiency, higher level and better quality of human resource, addresses shortage of skills, decreases drop out, but also contributes in achieving significant objectives in field of employment – better preparedness and adaptibility of work force, greater efficiency and mobility.
Through the project activities we tend to build the System of career guidance at university level in Serbia, according to the priorities that define the new paradigm of career guidance – lifelong guidance:
- the centrality of the student in the provision of career services,
- the need to refocus provision to develop the skills of individuals to manage their career and learning,
- widen access to services and improve the quality of the services.
Also, measures and activities represented in the Action Plan of the National Strategy of CGC that directly affect the development of system of career guidance in HE are included, in the elaborated form in the work packages and activities of the project.
Project is focused on development of career guidance in higher education as an integral part of development of system of career guidance in Serbia. Through this project, we will try to contribute to the implementation of certain measures and activities of the National Strategy of career guidance and counseling (CGC), which are primarily related to students.
This Strategy, adopted by the Government of the Republic of Serbia 10th March 2010, represents result of inter-sector co-operation of Ministry of Education, Ministry of Youth and Sport, Ministry of Economy, non-government organizations (BOS), relevant institutions, universities and university career centers. Main objective of the strategy is establishment and development of career guidance and counseling in Serbia. The document itself represents an important strategic framework, and along with Action plan for period 2010-2014 represents a platform for institutionalization, sustainability and further development and promotion of CGC in Serbia. Measures and activities related to HE sector are result of joint process in which all stake holders, including universities and career centers, provided their suggestions taking into consideration current state and perspectives of career guidance in higher education in Serbia. The timing and strategic intersection of identified needs for improvement of work of career centers and planned activities in national strategic document speak in favor of the need to distinguish this topic within other relevant topics as the subject of this project.
At the operational level of the project, development of practice of CGC in HE, focus is placed on building the system of career guidance at university level, according to the priorities that define the new paradigm of career guidance – lifelong guidance (promoted in numerous EU documents): the centrality of the individual/learner in the provision of career services, the need to refocus provision to develop the skills of individuals to manage their career and learning, widen access to services and improve the quality of the services.
Measures and activities represented in the Action Plan of the National Strategy of CGC that directly affect the development of system of career guidance in HE are included, in the elaborated form in the work packages and activities of the project. Primarily: Preparation of part of National program/document for career guidance and accompanying standards – for age group over 18 years, Improving the existing university career centres, Training university students for active and efficient career management, Innovation and modernization of websites for CGC, but also Training in CGC for teaching staff in universities and HEI.
Readiness of the State to be more actively involved in dealing with career guidance system and the establishment of centers of the state universities that work since 2006. represent a suitable basis to integrate “bottom-up”and “top-down” processes in order to strengthen links between policy and practice in the area of career guidance.
According to that, work packages of the project are defined, and goals are: Development of Program of Career Information, Guidance and Education aiming to increase youth employability, Enabling wider accessibility and variety of programs in Career guidance at Higher Education Institutions, Raising the level of recognizing importance of Career Guidance by the policy makers and other stake holders and Development of CGC Programme for Youth and Methodology for CGC centers at Serbian HE institutions.
Benefit of the project will have students, universities, academic staff, employers and policy makers, since the project will enable students to manage and plan learning and work pathways in accordance with their career goals, relating their competences and interests to education, training and labour market opportunities; assist institutions to have motivated students and better connections with employers; assist employers to have motivated, employable and adaptable staff and better connections with university and encourage policy makers to achieve a wide range of public policy goals.