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TEMPUS SHESPSS
Strengthening Higher Education
for Social Policy making and Social Services delivery
Curricular Reform
544246-TEMPUS-1-2013-1-RS-TEMPUS-JPCR
Partnership with the
professional community
Slavica Milojevic
Republic Institute for Social Protection
Belgrade, 24 March 2017
“In theory, theory and
practice are the same.
In practice they are
not.”
Albert Einstein
Partners from professional community
• The Republic Institute for Social Protection
• Center for Independent Living of PWDs Serbia
• The Association of Social Protection Professionals in Serbia
• Association of Centers for Social Work of Serbia
Following the objectives of the Project
In accordance with the main objective:
• Strengthen higher education in the field of social policy making and
social services delivery by developing new study programmes,
improving existent study programmes and establish effective links
between academic programs and social and labour market needs.
as well as with the specific objectives, but specially for the following
one:
• To initiate and prepare material for the future national qualification
standards and mutually adjusting national jobs classification and
educational profiles of students in the field of social policy and social
service delivery.
the partners from the professional community made their contribution
to the project
Professional Community role
• to emphasize what practice show
• to determine what is the offer and what is the demand
• to clarify the existing requirements by society/social protection
system from social work(ers)
• to bring closer the user’s perspective and their expectations from
social workers
• to represent personal perspective of social workers / practitioners in
the social welfare system
and to underline the relevance of all those issues for the Curriculum in
social work education
The leading point…
To support academic community in giving proper response to the
society expectations:
To "produce" experts who will act in accordance with those
which promote the science and practice of social work –
professionals qualified to:
• social changes
• solving social problems
• empowerment of individuals and social groups
• action towards achieving well-being for all
and capable to intervene where an individual enters into
interact with their environment:
• preventing the occurrence of damage and
• It’s elimination
Partnership among us
• respect for each other’s experience
and expertise
• open and ongoing constructive
communication
• trust
• clarity about roles
• agreed goals or purpose
• openness to different views and
perspectives and willingness to
learn from others
• commitment to permanently
developing relationships
What we have concluded together
• in social protection all of professional workers are
equally important
• so strengthening of education in the field of social work
should emphasize also the process of education of
psychologists, educators, sociologists, adult educators,
special educators, lawyers ...
in order to make them understand the common interests,
that could really contribute to the multidisciplinary holistic approach to contemporary social work
Thank You in the name of all
partners from the professional
community