Following the development of the regionally based Agricultural technician of traditional and organic cultivation occupational standard (ATTOOS) within the Enhancements in the quality of education and training in SEE – EQET SEE the EQET SEE project partners preceded towards developing the second regionally based qualification standard (QS) for the Agricultural technician of traditional and organic cultivation (ATTOQS). 

For the first time in the region of Western Balkan, the representatives of the VET and qualification agencies from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia and Serbia started the development of the regionally based qualification standard. The first meeting organised in Budva, Montenegro between 04 and 05 July 2022. The second meeting was organised from 20 September to 22 September in Skopje, North Macedonia.

The meeting was attended by the tottal of 22 participants, education and business experts, from the each EQET SEE economy, and the ERI SEE Secretariat project team, Ms Tina Šarić, director of the ERI SEE Secretariat and the EQET SEE project manager and Ms Ivana Živadinović, Regional Project Coordinator. Ms Maja Jukić, external expert for the qualification standard development, was in charge of leading the meeting and coordinating the working groups. The main goal of the meeting was to work on the finalisation of the regionally based ATTOQS by elaborating unites of learning outcomes.

The finalisation of the first regionally based qualification standard is expected for the 2022 calendar year through the series of regional meetings after which each economy will work on its national validation.

More about the EQET SEE project is available here. The Methodology for the Developing Regionally-based Standards of Qualifications used as the basis for the ATTOQS development can be downloaded in English language with translations in Albanian, Macedonian, Serbian.

* This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNCSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.