Education of local governments as a way towards sustainable development of the countries of the Western Balkans - Case Study of Montenegro

Year 2016, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 63 - 71, 18.01.2016

Radoje Vujadinovic Uros Karadzic

Abstract

There is an urgent need of capacity building in sustainable development in the Western Balkans Countries. Thus, education and training are necessary elements to make municipality administration capable to recognize, define, prepare, and finalize any kind of the energy efficiency projects, from the simple ones up to technically and particularly financially complex projects, particularly taking into consideration today very attractive concepts of the projects financing, as ESCO’s, PPP, etc.

This paper presents the activities on the TEMPUS project Training courses for public services in sustainable infrastructure development in Western Balkans (Project Number: 530530-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-SE-TEMPUS-JPHES), in the Montenegro, as case study.

The project is designed to establish system for training of public authorities aimed at improving level of environmental expertise, facilitating good governance and sustainable development in Western Balkan countries. In that sense, for capacity building of staff at public authorities in sustainable development, particularly energy efficiency in the public buildings, management in the renewable energy sources at University of Montenegro - Faculty for Mechanical Engineering in cooperation with Union of Municipalities of Montenegro two training programmes are designed, developed and implemented.

Key teachers were being retrained at EU universities and they disseminated their new knowledge to colleagues, so the capacities of University of Montenegro in providing training in sustainable development have been significantly improved.

Strong connection between University of Montenegro and Union of Municipalities of Montenegro has been established. All these things contributed to creation of the system for continuous development of the knowledge, skills and competencies of the staff of public authorities.

A web-based toolkits as an interactive learning environment for training of public authorities was developed during the project implementation.

Keywords: education, energy efficiency, sustainable development, TEMPUS, training

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References

• [1]. Grant Agreement for an action with multiple beneficiaries, Agreement number – 2012 – 3006/001-001, Project number – 530530 – TEMPUS – 1 – 2012 – 1 – SE-TEMPUS-JPHES
• [2]. Intermediate Report on implementation of the project (IR), Statement of the costs incurred and Request for Payment
• [3]. Final Report on implementation of the project (FR) Summary report for publication and Financial Statement