Representatives of UoM Rectorate, Faculty for Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty for Applied Physiotherapy and UoM social partners visited the University of Aarhus last week.

Representatives of the Rectorate and of the Faculties for Toursm and Hotel Management and the Faculty for Applied Physiotherapy, as well as representatives of social partners visited the University of Alicante in the period from 19-23 March. The second study visit to this university was aimed at becoming familiar with the best practice in prior learning recognition, flexible learning paths, manner of module development, as well as criteria for module accreditation.

President of the Chamber of Economy of Montenegro Velimir Mijušković and the rector of the University of Montenegro prof. dr Predrag Miranović signed on 9 March 2012 an Agreement on Cooperation between these two institutions.

Public debate on the Draft Strategic Plan for Embedding Lifelong Learning at UoM was held on Monday, 5 March in the University Rectorate. The Vice - rector for international relations prof. Mira Vukcevic presented the content of the document and forthcoming activities to the representatives of the media, University and social partners in the project.

Public debate on the Draft Strategic Plan for Embedding Lifelong Learning at UoM has been scheduled for 5 March at 11:00.

Coordination meeting of the Tempus project Dellco was held on 1-2 February in the Rectorate of the University of Montenegro. Representatives of all project partners took part in the meeting. Apart from an overview of first year project implementation and the monitoring visit of EACEA which took place in November, the meeting was an opportunity to plan activities to be undertaken in year 2 and schedule the events and meetings to be organized as part of year II activities. The Draft  University Strategic Plan for LLL was presented as well as the design of the portal for enabling communication between the university and companies.

Agenda of the Meeting

Draft Stategic Plan for LLL at the University of Montenegro has been developed following three month planning efforts as a part of DeLLCo 2010-2013 project. Its specific purpose is to identify strategies that can assist University to develop its lifelong learning (LLL) function and offer flexible and adaptable programmes and courses that will be compatible with the fast changing labour market and societal needs of Montenegro and the region.

Rector of the University of Montenegro Predrag Miranovic and Director of the Employment Agency of Montenegro Zoran Jelic signed the Cooperation Agreement between the two institutions at the Rectorate yesterday.

Rector emphasized the importance of the Agreement for future joint efforts of the two institutions. The University and Agency will tend to create an in-depth analysis of the labour market, in order to harmonize the enrollment policy and needs for adequate professions.

Representative of  the European Comission Ms. Antonella Giorgio, national TEMPUS cooridnator Ms. Vanja Drljević and representative of national TEMPUS office Mr. Ranko Lazović, had a meeting with representatives of the University of Montenegro and its social partners yesterday in the Rectorate  and spoke about activities  of the project Development of the  Lifelong Learning Concept at the University of Montenegro realised so far.

The meeting also included discussion on further project activities and goals that should be achieved by the project plan.

The meeting is part of the regular project monitoring procedure and the report on evaluation of project results will be forwarded to the European Comission.

Workshop aimed at contributing to the development of the strategic plan for lifelong learning at the University of Montenegro, which will strengthen the function of lifelong learning at the University and enable creation of flexible and adaptable lifelong learning programmes, compatible with the labor market needs, and the needs of wider public was held On October 19 in the Rectorate of the University of Montenegro.