The Regional Challenge Fund (RCF) is a financing facility designed to increase employability, especially youth. It boosts the competitiveness of enterprises in Western Balkan 6 economies by funding investments in equipment and infrastructure for selected cooperative or dual training projects […]
Two most successful projects from Montenegro being proposed for financing in the Second call of Regional Challenge Fund, allocating approximately 693,000 Euros for the investments in equipment, infrastructure and training at the vocational training institutes implementing cooperative training. 11th May, […]
The Regional Challenge Fund (RCF) has recently conducted an analysis of the applications received during the First and the Second Calls for Expressions of Interest. The overview brought an interesting insight into the challenges of the cooperative and dual training […]
6 most successful projects from Kosovo being proposed for finance in the second call of Regional Challenge Fund, allocating approximately 2.85 million Euros for the investments in equipment, infrastructure and training at the vocational training institutes implementing cooperative training. April […]
The Technical Advisory Committee of the Regional Challenge Fund in Western Balkans 6 took place for the second time on January 25-26, 2023, in Skopje, North Macedonia. The two-day workshop gathered VET experts from Western Balkans 6 Chamber Investment Forum, […]
The Regional Challenge Fund, the unique mechanism the aim of which is to improve the employability of young people and boost the competitiveness of companies across the Western Balkan 6, has been operating for close to two years. Within that […]
SWITZERLAND JOINS THE REGIONAL CHALLENGE FUND ADDITIONAL 9.7 MILLION CHF WAS COMMITTED TO FUNDING COOPERATIVE TRAINING PROJECTS IN WESTERN BALKAN 6 German Development Bank KfW and the Swiss Government, represented by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), have […]
What are male or female occupations? What are they defined by? What can be done to improve the rates of female students in VET? These are some of the questions to tackle in the ever-present issue of occupational gender stereotypes […]
The Regional Challenge Fund’s Deputy Team Leader, Jelena Manic Radoicic took part in the final conference “Dual education – Fit for tomorrow” which was organized by the German-Serbian Chamber of Commerce as part of the “AHK Road Show 2022” project. […]
The RCF organized Tutorial and Q&A Sessions across the Western Balkans 6 from March 29th to April 1st via the Zoom platform. The Tutorial and Q&A Sessions provided detailed information about the online application procedure, application submission, and RCF cooperative […]
