Creation of Centers of Professional Excellence

The creation of a network of Centers of Professional Excellence will contribute to the acceleration of the modernization of the P(PT)O system, which ensures the training of highly qualified workers who will meet the requirements of the national and regional labor markets.

Vocational education is a means of self-realization of a person in professional activities, social self-protection, stability and adaptation to labor market conditions. On the other hand, professional education should meet the urgent and prospective needs of business for qualified specialists whose training level would meet the requirements of scientific and technical and social progress, who would be professionally mobile, have versatile professional and general educational knowledge, skills and abilities. Today, Ukraine has a situation characterized by the growth of labor market needs for qualified personnel (according to the Medium-term forecast of the need for specialists and workers in the labor market for 2024-2027, http://surl.li/xswfjj). As a result of the implementation of the Project, it is envisaged to create Centers of Professional Excellence as powerful modern centers of vocational education and training, combining the organization of primary vocational training of students and vocational training of the adult population. Centers of professional excellence will have a modern material and technical base for professions (classrooms, workshops) that are a priority for the country's economy, updated social infrastructure (dormitories, canteens, sports facilities, etc.). Such institutions will fulfill the role of centers of concentration of the best experience in the field of VET, combining the organization of primary vocational training of students and vocational training of the adult population. The tasks of the Centers of Professional Excellence will include: ensuring the training of highly qualified workers in professions that meet the requirements of local, regional and national labor markets; promoting innovation and development in professional education and training; exchange of methodical and professional experience of teacher training, accumulation and transfer of various educational resources to other institutions of the professional education system; ensuring the principle of inclusive education; increasing the prestige of professional education and training due to the centralization of investments and the concentration of results. The implementation of the Project will contribute to the reduction of the discrepancy between the demand and supply of workers and, as a result, to the improvement of the provision of enterprises with professional personnel. The creation of Centers of Professional Excellence will have the potential to achieve the following outcomes, with significant social impact, including: improving the quality of P(PT)O; improving the image of P(PT)O both among potential education seekers and in Ukrainian society in general; increasing the prestige of teaching activity; introduction of innovative technologies into the educational process; ensuring the variability of educational services, taking into account the individual requests of students, in particular, persons with special educational needs, gifted youth; growing interest in the learning process among students; the formation of a new type of thinking among schoolchildren, which will allow the formation of a new style of activity, aimed at more effectively solving industrial, social, cultural and other problems; creating opportunities for lifelong learning.