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