“Entrepreneurship Platform for Economic and Social Inclusion from Minority Groups” 

“Entrepreneurship Platform for Economic and Social Inclusion from Minority Groups” (14.12.2015 – 14.08.2017), is the project implemented by Vocational and Educational Training Center in partnership with Macedonian Development Center for Civil Organizations, Roma Community Center (DROM) and Multikultura. The overall objective of the project is Enhancement of the level of economic and social integration of unemployed women from minority ethnic communities, in particular Roma, Albanian and Turkish communities, through opening regional training centers aimed at long-term education, pre-qualification and development of personal skills. It also improves and strengthening the relations between the offer and the demand of workforce; supports and enhances personal capacities and possibilities for employment and self-employment through increasing the level and acquiring appropriate practical skills, creates a system for continuous training of specific target group aimed at development of professional skills according to previous identification of the real needs of employers; raises business community awareness regarding the professional capacities of this category of people for the purpose of improvement of the economic condition of the regions; stimulates the institutional cooperation between NGOs on one side and governmental institutions on other side: Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Labor and Social Policy and the Employment Agency of Republic of Macedonia at local and regional level. Beneficiaries of the project are unemployed women from minority groups – Roma, Turkish, Vlach, Bosnian, Serbian and others and also Macedonian and Albanian, at the age of 18-25.