At the meeting, the Chamber presented the previous activities in which the business sector is included within the project, as well as the potential for future fields of action in the direction of the promotion of dual education, but also the educational policies as a whole, for creating skilled staff for the needs of the economy.

Although the current activities have already been defined, there is a need for additional new forms of rapid action within the framework of the project arising from the new conditions on the ground related to global migration, which of course seriously affects our country and the Western Balkans region as a whole. If this is followed by the fact that Macedonian companies work in extremely specific conditions in terms of business predictability and there is not a large number of companies that have medium-term development plans, and the number of companies with long-term strategies is even smaller, supplemented by global flows of the mutation of the crises, we believe that in the next period, a crucial emphasis should be placed on the preparation of quick analyzes in the short term for three to six months, through which the situation will be monitored by sectors, activities, what are the needs of the companies, for the staff they need. For this, the Swiss experience of this type of monitoring of labor market conditions is certainly welcome. At the same time, the Chamber should be the main bearer of the promotion of dual education by creating various forms of activities throughout the year.

The operations director, Mihajlo Donev, MSc, expressed his gratitude to the audience for the great cooperation we have built in the past years, which continues to grow in the Second Phase of the E4E@мк project. Helvetas as an organization has a capacity that is of great support to the activities of the Chamber in the field of education, a reliable partner for the transfer of knowledge, as well as access to experts, study visits and networking with Swiss professional associations in order to strengthen and expand the capacities of our associations and councils within the Chamber developing into systemic actors in many processes. In the coming period, we will continue to strengthen the engagement of the private sector by creating connections not only with schools and companies for vocational education and training, but also with universities.

Helvetas is an independent Swiss development organization that develops capacities in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe through project activities. Through its unit for Eastern Europe, Helvetas has been present in North Macedonia since 2003, working on activities that increase the employability of young people.