VETpreneur concludes, strengthening entrepreneurial education across the Western Balkans

Belgrade, 30 December 2025. The VETpreneur project, a multi-country initiative to strengthen entrepreneurial education and align vocational education and training (VET) with the European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (EntreComp), has successfully concluded after three years of collaboration and implementation.

Funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ Capacity Building in VET component, and implemented by a consortium of 11 partner organisations from 7 countries coordinated by JA Serbia, VETpreneur brought together schools, VET providers, civil society organisations and experts from education, business and policy.

Key results

• A regional, cross-sectoral Western Balkans EntreComp expert group, which developed Guidelines for Integrating the EntreComp Framework into Secondary School and VET Curricula.
• 105 teachers trained in integrating EntreComp competencies into classroom practice.
• 129 teachers from Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina trained to implement the Student Company programme.
• Three international mobility programmes hosted in Serbia, Slovenia and Cyprus, with 80 participants from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
• The PBEL (Project-Based Entrepreneurial Laboratory) online platform, available in three languages and already used by more than 100 teachers and their students.

Through these results, VETpreneur contributed to stronger regional cooperation, better quality and relevance of VET and secondary education, and closer alignment with European frameworks and labour market needs. The project’s tools, platform and trained educators will carry its impact beyond the formal end of the project.