The project “VET Support to Serbian Detention Facilities”, initiates the first VET pilot training in three prisons in Serbia – Pozarevac, Sremska Mitrovica and Nis. About five hundred prisoners were given the opportunity to choose between five professions: welders, printers, woodworkers, bakers and agriculture practitioners. These are the professions that have, for a long time, been scarce in the labor market of Serbia.

All teaching materials and equipment manuals have been prepared in close cooperation with . Selected teachers from VET schools went through comprehensive preparations and training, which included adult learning, student motivation, conflict management, modern strategies of teaching and learning, monitoring and evaluation. Methods for enhancing the motivation of prisoners for further education were also addressed.

The major goal of this project is to develop a viable concept for the future model of vocational education and training in all institutions for execution of criminal sanctions in Serbia. In order to improve the visibility of the project, a logo and web site www.vet-kpz.rs have been developed.