As part of the FUNK Festival, a panel discussion titled “Empowering Teachers through Microcredentials” was held in the hall of the Technical Faculties at the University of Montenegro. Among the participants was Jelena Đukanović, Senior Advisor for Quality Assurance at the Agency for Control and Quality Assurance of Higher Education. Representatives from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Montenegro and the University of the Mediterranean also took part in the discussion.
The panel provided a platform for exchanging experiences and ideas on how modular and flexible models of education can contribute to teachers’ professional development and the improvement of teaching quality.
In her presentation, the representative of the Agency emphasized that microcredentials bring flexibility that keeps pace with the dynamics of the labor market and represent an important step toward developing a system that recognizes and values every acquired knowledge and skill.
Đukanović highlighted that every acquired skill becomes a building block of lifelong learning and that education systems recognizing microcredentials are those that value every effort and every form of knowledge, regardless of how and where it was obtained.
During the panel, the results of the CRED4TEACH project were presented, which is developing 11 pilot micro-credentials in Montenegro, Albania, and Ukraine.
The panel participants agreed that microcredentials represent a bridge between formal education and the needs of modern society and the labor market.