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02 SES 02 A, Vocational Education and Training (VET) developments in Central and Eastern European Countries after the Soviet Era – 35 Years later
Symposium
Contribution
Interaction of EU countries with other partner countries in any sphere of life support is always a relevant and important direction of international socio-economic, humanitarian and political cooperation. This direction acquires a special color and sound in emergency/extreme situations and in recovery periods from them, for example, overcoming the consequences of a pandemic, regulating the consequences of mass migration (natural-climatic, socio-economic and caused by war or other armed conflicts, etc.). The example of Ukraine's cooperation in addressing the challenges and consequences of the armed aggression of a neighboring expansionist country is quite clear and illustrative. In the context of cooperation in the field of training for the economies of the countries, it consists of the following: assistance to Ukrainian refugees in learning the languages of the countries of arrival, in obtaining (continuing to obtain) professional qualifications demanded by national labor markets; training by Ukrainian providers of vocational education services of workers in the qualifications ordered by foreign employers, necessary for the functioning of their production during the period of restoration of Ukraine; recognition (except for regulated and some other qualifications/professions) and possible "additional training" in certain professional qualifications of refugees from Ukraine to accelerate their successful employment in the specialty in the country that provided temporary shelter, etc. These issues were partially studied in 2024 within the framework of the implementation SKILLS4JUSTICE. The results obtained give grounds to draw the following preliminary conclusions: martial law in Ukraine significantly (in some cases by an order of magnitude) reduces the time for making relevant changes to legislation, training periods and bureaucracy, which noticeably removes obstacles to Ukraine's specialized cooperation with EU member states and beyond. This also applies to removing barriers to interaction between providers of vocational education services and employers, significantly reducing the training period by minimizing theoretical components, avoiding duplication, and decentralizing the management of vocational education institutions. It should be noted separately that for many European countries, Ukraine's experience in training workers in professions that can be quickly diversified from civilian to security or vice versa is important.
References
Sergii Melnyk. The functioning of the vocational and technical education system of Ukraine in the war and post-war periods: from stagnation to developmentFachzeitschrift berufsbildung. Zeitschrift für Theorie-Praxis-Dialog. https://www.zeitschrift-berufsbildung.de/archiv/95-ukraine Melnyk, S. (2022). Ukraine: a late and iterative institutionalization pp. 341-368 in Tūtlys V., J. Winterton, J. Markowitsch and S. Pavlin (eds.) Skill Formation in Central and Eastern Europe. A search for Patterns and Directions of Development. Berlin: Peter Lang) S. Melnyk. Vocational and technical education and training in the conditions of postwar reconstruction of Ukraine: challenges and strategic directions https://vetnetsite.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cb-2023-s.-melnyk.pdf). Tūtlys, V., Bukantaitė, D., Melnyk, S., & Anužis, A. (2021). The institutional development of skills formation in Lithuania and Ukraine: Institutional settings, critical junctures and policy transfer. Research in Comparative and International Education, 16(4), 405–432) (https://ouci.dntb.gov.ua/en/works/7ABYnb24/). Melnyk, S., Oleksiuk, O., Tūtlys, V., Bukantaitė, D. (2023). Covid-19 and war implications for skill formation in Ukraine. In: Evans,K., Ostendorf, A., Permpoonwiwat C.K. (Eds.) Resilience of Vocational Education and Training in Phases of External Shock: Experiences from the Corona Pandemic in Asian and European Skill Eco Systems. Innsbruck: Innsbruck university press, pp 150-173 – https://www.uibk.ac.at/iup/buch_pdfs/asem_2/10.15203-99106-116-8-09.pdf). SKILL PARTNERSHIPS FOR SUSTAINABLE AND JUST MIGRATION PATTERNS (SKILLS4JUSTICE) HORIZON-CL2-2023-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-03 No. 101132435. https://skills4justice.eu/ Project SKILLS4JUSTICE – Ukraine. https://horizon.iea.gov.ua/
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