Within the scope of Improving the Employment Prospects for the Syrian Refugees and Host Communities by High-quality VET and Apprenticeship in Turkey (VET4JOB) Programme, capacity building activities for general knowledge teachers in programme partner institutions took place in Bursa on 31 August-2 September. VET4JOB, which is funded by the European Union and carried out in cooperation with the Ministry of National Education Directorate General of Vocational Education and Training and TESK, through implementation partnership of Expertise France and EDUSER, aims to strengthen the service provision capacity of the programme partner VET institutions via the training activities organized. In the scope of the training course, expert trainers explained topics such as “apprenticeship training and its implementation principles, the business world and apprenticeship training, strengthening social cohesion, social inclusion in education, teenager psychology and Generation Z, distance learning, intercultural dialogue and planning activities to enhance social cohesion”. At the end of the training, participation certificates were presented to the teachers who attended the course. With this final training, the capacity building training courses for institutions in Istanbul, Kocaeli and Bursa have been completed. Training courses for the staff of VET institutions in Ankara, Kahramanmaraş, Kayseri, Konya and İzmir will be carried out in İzmir, in September.
