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o Raising awareness of social inclusion issues within included school and involved local communities
o Limited effects on national level VET policy
o Project serves as an evidence-based tool for advocating social inclusion VET policy and putting it on political agenda
What difference does the project make?
o Follow-up project aims at the development of action plans for addressing social equity and inclusion issues within schools included in initial project (financed with national resources)
o The project is led by CYN (Croatian Youth Network) with partner schools
o Issues addressed in action plans were related to obstacles to social inclusion identified in initial project
Measure resulting from the project
o The issue in social inclusion of vulnerable group has been recognized in the New National Strategy for Education, Science and Technology in the area of:o Curriculum and assessmento Support for pupilso Quality assurance
o The strategy does not address issues of VET social equity and inclusion issues in particular.
o Erasmus+ starting in 2014 will be oriented toward cross-sectoral cooperation of VET schools, employers, social partners and other stakeholders.
Measures in the pipeline
o Lack of systematic co-operation between VET schools and economic sector
o Gaps and overlapping institutional framework within VET
o Improvement in career guidance and counseling
Challenges