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Q1. Have the Member States reviewed their legislation, policies and learning frameworks to ensure that they are aligned with the recommendations, principles and guidance?
  1. Strategy of Digital Skills Development in the Republic of Serbia 2020-2024 and the Action Plan for the implementation of the Digital Skills Development Strategy in the Republic of Serbia for the period from 2020 to 2024 aim to enhance all citizens’ digital knowledge and skills, including vulnerable groups. Its objective is to ensure that the country stays updated with ICT advancements in all sectors and meets the demands of businesses and the labour market.  
  2. Youth Strategy in the Republic of Serbia from the period from 2023-2030: addresses media literacy and online security, primarily through Measure 4.5 – “Support to programmes for the development of digital competencies and digital citizenship” and Measure 5.1 – “Support to programmes that contribute to the development of healthy lifestyles and mental health of young people” 
  3. Education Development Strategy of Serbia 2020-2030. The strategy aims to enhance pre-university education by improving teaching quality, implementing a robust quality assurance system, promoting digital education, and increasing accessibility and equity. Key measures include developing updated curricula that foster cross-disciplinary skills (like problem-solving, digital literacy, and democratic engagement), supporting teacher training and institutional capacity, and enhancing resources for literacy in various subjects. Additionally, the initiative seeks to advance digital education by equipping schools for online and hybrid learning and supporting inclusive, accessible educational environments through infrastructure improvements and intercultural training programs. 
  4. According to the National Authorities responding to the online survey, during the development of the new curriculum next year, the plan is to include DCE in the civic as well as cross-curricular. DCE promoter Zlatko Grušanović and director of the Institute for Curriculum Development is planning this activity through education strategy in the Ministry of Education and is involved in the work of the working group of the Office of the Council of Europe. 
Sources
  1. https://pravno-informacioni-sistem.rs/eli/rep/sgrs/vlada/drugiakt/2023/8/1/reg   
  2. https://mto.gov.rs/extfile/sr/1829/EN%20Youth%20Strategy%20in%20the%20Republic%20of%20Serbia%20for%20the%20period%20from%202023%20to%202030.pdf  
  3. https://www.google.com/search?q=strategija+razvoja+obrazovanja+do+2030&sca_esv=21fd2d4e13d87791&rlz=1C1GCEA_enRS818RS818&sxsrf=ADLYWIJXZKX8ik7j_u2T64WQoqk3qGN-hA%3A1727348183557&ei=1z31ZuTNIbyA9u8P3IScsAI&oq=strategija+razvoja+obraz&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiGHN0cmF0ZWdpamEgcmF6dm9qYSBvYnJheioCCAAyBRAAGIAEMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIIEAAYgAQYogQyCBAAGIAEGKIEMggQABiABBiiBEiHOFAAWJ0mcAB4AZABAJgBlQGgAesTqgEEOS4xNbgBAcgBAPgBAZgCGKACtxTCAgQQIxgnwgIKECMYgAQYJxiKBcICCxAAGIAEGJECGIoFwgILEC4YgAQY0QMYxwHCAgoQLhiABBhDGIoFwgIFEC4YgATCAhEQLhiABBiRAhjHARiKBRivAcICCBAAGIAEGMsBwgIIEC4YgAQYywGYAwCSBwQ3LjE3oAft4QE&sclient=gws-wiz-serp 
  4. Online survey with national authorities 
Q2. Have the Member States promoted the implementation of the Recommendation in formal, non-formal and informal education settings?
  1. Strategy of Digital Skills Development in the Republic of Serbia 2020-2024: no information found.  
  2. Youth Strategy in the Republic of Serbia from the period from 2023-2030: Support projects and programmes to inform young people about digital technologies and digital skills, Provide financial support for media associations and youth activities to improve critical thinking and media literacy of young people, establish youth newsrooms and create affirmative media content about young people. Workshops, and partnerships with youth organizations.  
  3. Smart and Safe Platform. National contact centre for online safety of children, established in 2017 (education on children’s safety on the Internet by organizing seminars, workshops, presentations).  
  4. Children’s guide: ‘Children and Internet -Smart from the Start’.  
  5. Centre for Children Rights. The main course of action of the Centre is aimed at creating a favourable institutional, legislative and strategic framework for the full achievement of child rights in Serbia through activities focused on the introduction and implementation of laws, policies and practices that contribute to the advancement of the well-being of children, protection of their rights and their full participation in society.  
  6. The Institute for the Improvement of Education continuously conducts education, seminars, conferences on the topic of media and critical thinking, independently as well as in cooperation with the US Embassy. The materials are available on the ZUOV portal, and the promoter sent reports from these seminars. 
  7. Platform “I protect you” was created to protect students from any violence, including digital one. The platform “I Protect You” was established in March 2021 as the first national platform for all issues regarding protection and prevention of different forms of child-related abuse. 
Sources
  1. https://mto.gov.rs/extfile/sr/1829/EN%20Youth%20Strategy%20in%20the%20Republic%20of%20Serbia%20for%20the%20period%20from%202023%20to%202030.pdf
  2. https://pametnoibezbedno.gov.rs/tekst/726/saznajte-vise-o-nama.php
  3. https://cpd.org.rs/o-nama/
  4. https://zuov.gov.rs/odrzan-master-klas-nasi-ucenici-u-svetu-kritickog-misljenja-i-medijske-pismenosti/)
  5. https://www.srbija.gov.rs/vest/en/181873/i-protect-you-platform-for-preventing-child-abuse.php
Q3. Have the Member States assessed the impact of the legislation and policies implementing the Recommendation at regular intervals?
  1. Strategy of Digital Skills Development in the Republic of Serbia 2020-2024: Creation of Action Plan. 1st Action Plan (2021-2022). 2nd (2023-2024) The Action Plan puts forward relevant initiatives for the implementation of the Strategy of Digital Skills.  
  2. Youth Strategy in the Republic of Serbia from the period from 2023-2030: Use of indicators to measure specific objectives of the youth strategy. The Ministry of Tourism and Youth is responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Action Plan. The monitoring of the implementation of the Action Plan will be enabled by the Unified Information System for planning, monitoring implementation, coordination of public policies. Only the evaluation of the previous youth strategy that sets the grounds for the current one could be found. 
  3. Education Development Strategy of Serbia 2020-2030. Action plan for 2023-2026. According to the National Authorities responding to the online survey, before creating the Action plan of Education Development Strategy of Serbia 2020-2030 for the next period there is an evaluation and report on the realisation of previous Action plan. In addition to the existing ones, the plan includes a new activity called Digital Maturity of the School, after which an evaluation will be done. 
Sources
  1. https://pravno-informacioni-sistem.rs/eli/rep/sgrs/vlada/drugiakt/2023/8/1/reg  
  2. https://www.google.com/search?q=strategija+razvoja+obrazovanja+do+2030&sca_esv=21fd2d4e13d87791&rlz=1C1GCEA_enRS818RS818&sxsrf=ADLYWIJXZKX8ik7j_u2T64WQoqk3qGN-hA%3A1727348183557&ei=1z31ZuTNIbyA9u8P3IScsAI&oq=strategija+razvoja+obraz&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiGHN0cmF0ZWdpamEgcmF6dm9qYSBvYnJheioCCAAyBRAAGIAEMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIIEAAYgAQYogQyCBAAGIAEGKIEMggQABiABBiiBEiHOFAAWJ0mcAB4AZABAJgBlQGgAesTqgEEOS4xNbgBAcgBAPgBAZgCGKACtxTCAgQQIxgnwgIKECMYgAQYJxiKBcICCxAAGIAEGJECGIoFwgILEC4YgAQY0QMYxwHCAgoQLhiABBhDGIoFwgIFEC4YgATCAhEQLhiABBiRAhjHARiKBRivAcICCBAAGIAEGMsBwgIIEC4YgAQYywGYAwCSBwQ3LjE3oAft4QE&sclient=gws-wiz-serp 
Q4. Have the relevant stakeholders been involved in the design of DCE legislation and policies at the country level?
  1. Strategy of Digital Skills Development in the Republic of Serbia 2020-2024: Working Group for Drafting the Strategy Proposal, representatives of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, the Ministry of Culture and Information, the Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government, the Office for Information Technology and electronic administration, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, the professional public – the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Research Station Petnica, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade and the Mathematical Gymnasium, as well as representatives of other bodies and organizations, the professional and academic community and the civil sector through the participation in the work of the focus group that brought together interested parties in this area. According to the National Authorities responding to the online ssurvey, the director of the Institute for the Improvement in Education (IIE) Zlatko Grušanović and the head of the Center for Professional Development of Educators in IIE, Suzana Deretić, are involved in creating outputs for DCE and according to them create proposals for the priority areas of professional development of educators to the Minister of Education. 
  2. Youth Strategy in the Republic of Serbia from the period from 2023-2030: various surveys on the position and needs of young people, conducted by bodies, NGOs, companies, academia and international partners. 
Sources
  1. https://pravno-informacioni-sistem.rs/eli/rep/sgrs/vlada/drugiakt/2023/8/1/reg   
  2. Online survey with national authorities 
  3. https://mto.gov.rs/extfile/sr/1829/EN%20Youth%20Strategy%20in%20the%20Republic%20of%20Serbia%20for%20the%20period%20from%202023%20to%202030.pdf 
Q5. Have the relevant stakeholders been involved in the implementation of DCE legislation and policies?
  1. Strategy of Digital Skills Development in the Republic of Serbia 2020-2024: The working group mentioned in Q4 is involved in the implementation (this is confirmed in the action plan).  
  2. Youth Strategy in the Republic of Serbia from the period from 2023-2030: The Youth Council is involved in the monitoring of the implementation of the strategy as well. All ministries involved in the work of the Youth Council prepare reports on the results achieved in working with youth and in the implementation of the strategy. 
Sources
  1. https://pravno-informacioni-sistem.rs/eli/rep/sgrs/vlada/drugiakt/2023/8/1/reg
  2. https://mto.gov.rs/extfile/sr/2686/ENG%20Akcioni%20plan%2017%2007%202023.docx
  3. https://national-policies.eacea.ec.europa.eu/youthwiki/chapters/serbia/13-national-youth-strategy  
Q6. Have the relevant stakeholders been involved in the evaluation of DCE legislation and policies?

According to the National Authorities in the online survey, there were certain evaluations by the Institute for Evaluation of the Quality of Education, with a similar theme. A comprehensive evaluation is being prepared for next year. 

Sources

Online survey with national authorities 

Q7. Have the Member States supported the creation of frameworks for cooperation between public, private and civil society actors and education institutions?
  1. Youth Council    
  2. Smart and Safe Platform: partnership between Serbian ministries and private entities such as: Microsoft and Propulsion and civil society initiatives such as Save the Children, among others. 
  3. Telekom Srbija (we create knowledge project).  
  4. NGO: Share foundation (digital rights summer school) 
Sources
  1. https://pametnoibezbedno.gov.rs/#partneri  
  2. https://mts.rs/About-Telekom/Social-responsibility/Social-responsibility/a119857-Telekom-Srbija-equips-140-schools-throughout-Serbia-through-the-We-Create-Knowledge-project.html    
  3. https://www.sharefoundation.info/en/  
Q8. Have the Member States ensured that the cooperation frameworks between stakeholders align with standards for equitable quality education?

No information found  

Q9. Have the Member States been involved in cooperation between the Council of Europe and international organisations in designing and implementing strategies, policies, programmes and research on DCE?
  1. Member of DCE promoters network 
  2. Member of Working Group on Digital Education: Learning, Teaching and Assessment (DELTA) 
  3. Member of Global Education Network (GENE) 
  4. Member of Global Kids Online 
  5. Collaboration with UNESCO to improve the use of the internet and the access. 
  6. Member of Commission Working group on Schools 
Sources
  1. https://www.unesco.org/es/articles/la-unesco-y-la-republica-de-serbia-ayudan-las-personas-aprovechar-al-maximo-los-flujos-de
Additional questions on the DCE Recommendation

Training on DCE to teachers and other professionals:
Training on DCE through accredited seminars and conferences by the IIE or by the Minister of Education (it is already mentioned that IIE proposed the priority areas of professional development of educators according to DCE outputs). 

Translation and dissemination of DCE Recommendation:

For now it is not, they are waiting for the final version of the DC core curriculum and for it to be implemented through trainings and programmes.

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