ENTEP Joint Project proposal has been initiated with the aim of improving the quality of education and teaching, enhancing teaching practices and further developing educational science in Russia and China. Partners experienced in HE teacher training formed a consortium in order to benefit from their different experiences, profiles and specific expertise and to produce relevant and high quality outcomes. The Project is focused on building cooperation and exchange of good teaching practices among European, Russian and Chinese Universities, which will eventually result in the modernization of PCIs.Effective teacher education is key to teachers’ ability to face educational change and handle various socioeconomic conditions, however, more professional training is required throughout a teacher’s career as different professional needs emerge and contextual circumstances shift. RU and CN educational authorities require that HE teachers, who lack pedagogical education, must receive training through professional development in-service programs on theory and practice of teaching, including advanced teaching methods and pedagogy. Thus, the proposed establishment of Centres for Teaching and Learning at PCIs with trained personnel and methodological support will provide a model for such high quality training on a regular basis and engage educators with the most up-to-date technologies to support teaching design and delivery. In order to be able to fit the changing learning environment, University teachers will be informed of modern pedagogy, curricula and syllabi design, contemporary teaching methodologies and psychology in the classroom, thus, being able to teach graduates who will meet needs of the labour market. Consequently, continuous professional development of university teaching staff will be focused on shared international and national ‘centres of excellence’, best practices, advanced teaching methodology and educational psychology in convergence with EU initiatives.

Pro-VET will introduce a systematic approach to, and an open platform for, initial and continuous professional development of VET teachers, trainers and mentors in both school and work-based settings for Serbia and Russia. Pro-VET will address the challenges of the educational quality, relevance, delivery, and management of the VET systems and help to build confidence in the industry on the development of the VET systems. Pro-VET will provide opportunities for pedagogical skill development and increased work-life relevance and collaboration with proven European approaches and methodologies in VET in Serbian and Russian languages.Pro-VET will build and capacitate a VET-Educators’ Training Network (VET-ETN) on the basis of 8 partner insitutions in Serbia and Russia that will strengthen European approaches in systems of VET and HE connected with VET teacher training in their respective countries. The capacity building actions will upgrade the ICT skills and facilities of teacher trainers as well as expose the trainers to European pedagogical practices and policies in VET. VET-ETN will facilitate admittance to these knowledge and skills for Serbian and Russian speaking world via an open access e-learning platform. The key activity of VET-ETN is the provision of in-service training opportunities for VET teachers. VET-ETN is capacitated with a process to develop new courses to target group needs and has MoU agreements with min. of 60 partners of VET providers, qualification agencies and companies. Pro-VET aims to engender policy learning via the introduction of transferable practices in VET policy and approaches that can be adapted to the partner countries’ VET systems. The policy learning consists of policy dialogue with ministries and VET sector, benchmarking and analysis of data from trained VET teachers (450 take part in the in-service training courses). It will result in national roadmaps for VET evolution and a Position Paper presented in National Conferences.