EU4Skills

The Project objective: creation of a modern vocational education and training infrastructure that increases the attractiveness of vocational education and training among students and creates a basis for effective education, focusing on skills in occupations that are in demand on the Ukrainian labour market.

Territory of implementation: Poltava, Mykolaiv, Vinnytsia, Rivne, Lviv, Chernivtsi regions.

The current Project status

Currently, 13 VET institutions are planned to be modernized under the Project. Modernization of 8 VET involves construction works and the purchase of equipment. 5 VETs will be modernized by supplying equipment.

As part of the modernisation of 8 VET institutions in the cities of Chernivtsi, Vinnytsia, Rivne, Drohobych, Stry, Kremenchuk, project and estimate documentation was developed, and tenders were held for the purchase of construction works. Contracts have been signed for 8 subprojects and construction work has begun. Today, construction works are at various stages of implementation. As part of the modernisation of the vocational training institution in Chernivtsi, sewing equipment for the workshops was purchased. According to the sub-project on the modernization of the Vocational Training Institute in Kremenchuk, machine tools were delivered to the workshops of the institution.

In order to modernize 4 VET institutions in the towns of Zastavna, Reshetylivka, Nova Odesa and Myrhorod, agricultural machinery was purchased and delivered, including harvesters, grain, corn and sunflower harvesters, tractors, pneumatic seed drills, trucks, etc. In order to modernize the vocational training facility in Sarny, construction (including road) machinery was purchased and delivered, namely: backhoe loader, bulldozers, truck crane, grader, excavator.

Previously, in agreement with KfW and the beneficiary, part of the project funds was directed to the implementation of an emergency aid package for IDPs, which provided for the purchase and supply of furniture, electrical goods, textile products, etc. for furnishing the dormitories of some VET institutions.

In connection with the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, measures to modernize 2 VET institutions of the Zaporizhia region have been suspended. Due to the aggression and its consequences, there are some delays in the implementation of the Project measures.