Back Second Advisory Board meeting of the Quality Education for All Project held in Sarajevo

The second Advisory Board meeting of the Horizontal Facility Action “Quality Education for All” was held in Sarajevo on 5 March 2020.

The meeting was opened by Bojana Urumova, Head of the Council of Europe Office in Sarajevo, Gianluca Vannini, Head of the Operations Section for Social Development, Civil Society and Cross Border Cooperation of the Delegation of the European Union to BiH and Adnan Husić, Assistant Minister from the Ministry of Civil Affairs of BiH. The meeting was chaired by Sarah Keating, Head of the Division for Co-operation and Capacity Building from the Council of Europe’s Education Department.

The meeting focused on activities implemented since the first Board meeting held in September of last year as well as activities foreseen to be organised in the coming six-month period. During the meeting, the Advisory Board members had a chance to discuss with Council of Europe expert Professor Maria Luisa de Bivar Black the results of the report on mapping and recommendations for aligning History curricula in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the Common Core Curriculum, the Policy Recommendations and Roadmap on Quality Education in Multi-Ethnic Societies (developed within the Project) and the Council of Europe’s Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture.

Representatives of institutions included the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of BiH, the Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees of BiH, ministries responsible for education on entity and cantonal levels and the Department for Education of the Government of Brčko District as well as representatives of the Agency for Pre-primary, Primary and Secondary Education and the Directorate for European Integration.

The Action “Quality Education for All” is co-funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe within the second phase of the Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey and implemented by the Council of Europe.

 

 

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“Quality education for all” is an action on education implemented in Bosnia and Herzegovina within the framework of the second phase of the “European Union - Council of Europe Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey (HF)”. The Horizontal Facility supports justice reform, the fight against corruption and money laundering and combating discrimination and protecting the rights of vulnerable groups, and covers Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia as well as Kosovo.

The purpose of the Project is to foster a quality education for all by promoting inclusion and solutions to address discrimination in the education system and in this way contribute to an inclusive, peaceful and democratic society with engaged citizens in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In particular, it aims to promote the benefits of multi-ethnic and democratic school for quality education through strengthening capacities of pilot schools to promote democratic school culture.

It builds upon the results achieved during the implementation of the previous Action (HF-38 “Quality Education in Multi-ethnic Societies”) and supports effective implementation of the policy roadmap developed jointly by relevant ministries at state level, entity ministries of education and 10 cantonal ministries of education in April 2019. It is built along three main lines of action:

(1) Enhancing common understanding among relevant authorities and educators of how to develop democratic school culture.

(2) Targeted capacity building of main providers (Ministries of Education, Pedagogical Institutes and CSOs) including by supporting more structured and continuous coordination, and

(3) Awareness-raising of school directors, teachers, students, parents, civil servants and public at large on the benefits of a multi-ethnic and democratic school for quality education.

The main partners of the project are the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, all relevant entity and cantonal ministries of education.

The project is implemented throughout a period of 36 months (23 May 2019 – 23 May 2022).

 

* This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.