Serbia signs agreement with EU for assistance in employment and education worth EUR 126.93 million

Serbia and the European Union have signed an Agreement on the financing of the Multiannual Operational Program for Employment, Skills and Social Inclusion, with a total budget of EUR 126.93 million, of which EUR 100 million is a grant as part of the European Union’s IPA assistance.

The program will finance assistance in employment, education, housing and social protection of citizens until 2032.

Training, internships and other ways for young people to acquire qualifications and experience necessary for employment will be financed. Support will be provided for the development of education by equipping schools with modern classrooms for teaching physics, chemistry and biology and by financing the development of a system for the recognition of prior learning and the acquisition of qualifications in accordance with European standards.

The program will finance the construction and procurement of apartments and houses for young people and vulnerable groups with unresolved housing issues in Serbia. It will support the provision of care to children without parental care in the local community through financing the necessary social protection services and the renovation of the necessary infrastructure for the provision of services.

– The signing of this ambitious program is an important step on Serbia’s path towards EU membership. Serbia will be better prepared to manage European cohesion funds, as well as EU Member States. This is also an important contribution to EU support for social services, for the benefit of Serbian citizens. The program promises concrete results for young people and vulnerable households where they are most needed - in education, employment and social housing - through cooperation between the government and civil society – said Andreas von Beckerath, Head of the European Union Delegation to Serbia.

Ministarstvo za evropske integracije Republike Srbije

Delegacija Evropske unije u Republici Srbiji Beograd

Ministarstvo za rad, zapošljavanje, boračka i socijalna pitanja Republike Srbije

Ministarstvo prosvete Republike Srbije

Ministarstvo turizma i omladine Republike Srbije

Ministarstvo građevinarstva, saobraćaja i infrastrukture Republike Srbije

Komesarijat za izbeglice i migracije Republike Srbije

Ministarstvo finansija Republike Srbije

Ministry of European Integration

European Union Delegation to Serbia

Ministry of Labor Employment Veteran and Social Policy

Ministry of Education

Ministry of Tourism and Youth

Ministry of Construction Transport and Infrastructure

Commissariat for Refugees and Migrations

Ministry of Finance

Mira Radenovic Bojic