Dual System of Education and Training as a Pathway to the Labour Market

3 EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR THE LABOUR MARKET In the third chapter of the scientific monograph, we will describe education and training for the current and promising labour market.

According to the cited source Eurydice (2019a) in terms of Strategy 2018–2020 under Priority Axis (PA) 1 – Education is currently implemented by the third national program Dual Education and Training and Increasing the Attractiveness and Quality of Vocational Education and Training; Schools Open for Everyone; IT Academy – Education for the 21st Century. The amount of contracted funds is € 70,867,180, which represents 15.5% of the total allocation of PA 1. Within 2 announced calls (More successful in primary school, DO NOT DISQUALIFY!), 266 projects were contracted until the 16th February 2018 in the total amount of contracted funds of € 23,337,962, which represents 5.09% of the total allocation. The disbursement of funds started in 2018. The current implementation, including the rate of contracting and disbursement, was influenced by the focus on the preparation of national projects, which in terms of time negatively affected the progress in implementation and the preparation of demand-oriented calls. Out of the total number of 8 approved intentions of national projects, the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport (MESRS) of the Slovak Republic decided not to further implement 4 national projects, resp. project themes put into demand-oriented calls (e.g. support for the training of future pedagogical and professional employee). Based on experience and to maximize the benefits for participants in education within individual priority areas, the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic has focused on increased support for the announcement of demand-oriented calls since 2018. The preparation and setting of calls are closely related to the process of preparation and use of simplified reporting of expenditure (hereinafter “SCO”) to simplify implementation both on the side of the beneficiary and on the side of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic. The Ministry of Education, science, research and sport of the Slovak Republic uses the SCO in the form of a delegated act, i.e. approval of the standard scales of unit costs of the EP, while this process lasts around 12 months and the conditions of using the SCO need to be defined directly in the call/