Career guidance development trends in Serbia

As part of the European Training Foundation (ETF) 2010 work programme regarding Serbia, the ETF organised a field visit to Belgrade between 24 and 26 March 2010. Its twofold purpose was to assess progress in the career guidance area between 2004 and 2010 and to analyse trends and future prospects for career guidance development - possibly supported by the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) or other donor programmes - in the light of the European dimension and the new European Union (EU) lifelong guidance paradigm. During the visit, the ETF leading expert in career guidance, Helmut Zelloth, met with policymakers and senior officials in the Ministry of Youth and Sport, the Ministry of Education and the National Employment Service, visited a Career Information and Professional Counselling Service, a university career development centre at Belgrade University and Belgrade Open School and met with local career guidance experts. This paper is mainly based on observations and conclusions from the field visit and on other documentation made available by national authorities and local experts. It also draws on information from previous ETF documents, such as Klenha (2008) and Dimov and Gligorijevic (2004) prepared in the framework of the ETF policy review of career guidance in the Western Balkan region. In addition, the report draws on Secibovic (2005) and the National Career Guidance and Counselling Strategy and Action Plan (Government of the Republic of Serbia, 2010) adopted in March and translated into English in June 2010.

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