1. Building Network of Remote Labs for strengthening university-secondary vocational schools collaboration LOGO of partner institution AIMS AND ACTIVITIES OF THE ASSOCIATION OF MECHANICAL VOCATIONAL SECONDARY SCHOOLS Ivana Milićević Kick-off Meeting Kragujevac 17 -18 January 2014

2. Building Network of Remote Labs for strengthening university-secondary vocational schools collaboration LOGO of partner institution ASSOCIATION OF MECHANICAL VOCATIONAL SECONDARY SCHOOLS IS a vocational, non–governmental and a non‐profit association formed for the purpose of achieving goals in the field of development of secondary vocational education. Event [Insert place and date]

3. Building Network of Remote Labs for strengthening university-secondary vocational schools collaboration LOGO of partner institution Aims of the Association: Active participation in the forming of education strategy of the Republic of Serbia Setting the standards and quality in the secondary vocational education

4. Building Network of Remote Labs for strengthening university-secondary vocational schools collaboration LOGO of partner institution providing schools with advisory and educational support in planning and orginizing their work, developing teams and introducing new education profiles developing cooperation between the Republic of Serbia and other countries interested in working on the improvement of secondary vocational education

5. Building Network of Remote Labs for strengthening university-secondary vocational schools collaboration LOGO of partner institution Association organization within the territory of Serbia 129 schools Over 1200 mechanical vocational classes

6. Building Network of Remote Labs for strengthening university-secondary vocational schools collaboration LOGO of partner institution PARTICIPATION IN PROJECTS CARDS VET reform from 2002 to 2011 GIZ –improvement of technical vocational education and training, 2012

7. Building Network of Remote Labs for strengthening university-secondary vocational schools collaboration LOGO of partner institution Ministry of foreign and internal trade and telecommunications –Student competition in robot programming, 2013 Organizing district and state competitions in programming the LEGO robot by using NXT software, LEGO, LabView and C#.

8. Building Network of Remote Labs for strengthening university-secondary vocational schools collaboration LOGO of partner institution This project includes ‘ Visual programming and application‐robot programming’, teacher training realized by using Moodle platform. http://nasaskola.in.rs/moodle/enrol/index.php?id=11. The training is acredeted by ZUOV. http://nasaskola.in.rs/moodle/enrol/index.php?id=11

9. Building Network of Remote Labs for strengthening university-secondary vocational schools collaboration LOGO of partner institution

10. Building Network of Remote Labs for strengthening university-secondary vocational schools collaboration LOGO of partner institution There are 150 teachers registered in this training at the moment, 100 of which are actively participating and doing their tasks in accordance with the plan.

11. Building Network of Remote Labs for strengthening university-secondary vocational schools collaboration LOGO of partner institution Role of the Association in the project AMVSS will be responsible for the project management and administration at their institution. They will have representatives in the PMB. AMVSS will organize promotional events and distribute dissemination project materials over their members – Mechanical secondary vocational schools.

12. Building Network of Remote Labs for strengthening university-secondary vocational schools collaboration LOGO of partner institution AMVSS will be involved in the selection of training groups of vocational school teachers as well as in organization of 6 training workshops at 3 Universities and in 3 different Regional centers. AMVSS will foster continuous use of the LiReX resources within the curricula in Mechanical secondary vocational schools during the project and after the project life cycle. AMVSS will closely cooperate with PQCC as well as with project coordinator regarding QA issues.

13. Building Network of Remote Labs for strengthening university-secondary vocational schools collaboration LOGO of partner institution Thank you for your attention http://zms.edu.rs/ http://zms.edu.rs/