The successful cooperation within the Twinning project continued in March 2023 and was demonstrated through the realization of five activities and the sixth Steering Committee Meeting. The first day of March was reserved for the latter, whereby the Minister of Education and Science Mr. Jeton Shaqiri, the Project Leaders, RTAs, Component Leaders, monitoring officers and other important stakeholders reviewed the project’s progress within the previous quarter. The Committee members discussed the achieved results and agreed on the content of the next Rolling Plan.

Photos (above and below): Sixth Steering Committee Meeting at the Club of Parliamentarians

Most of the activities in March were realized under Component 2 intended to provide support to the further implementation and enhanced capacities of the National Qualifications Framework in accordance with the QA framework. The activity 2.2.1 was organized from 6 to 10 March 2023.  Mr. Paulius Baltokas and Ms. Odeta Kupetienė from Lithuania were invited to develop user friendly guidelines for transparent inclusion of qualifications/occupational standards (all levels) in the digital NQF register for all users. The guidelines are intended to cover procedures for the submission of qualifications and standards and for their revision and inclusion into the register, as well as presentation of information to the public for various purposes, including for recognition of the national qualifications abroad. Both experts also held an awareness raising workshop for the relevant staff on the inclusion of qualifications/occupational standards (all levels) in the digital NQF register and the provision of information to the general public.