Faculty of Civil Engineering, Polytechnic University of Tirana together with Helvetas and the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation have the pleasure to invite you to the workshop dedicated to Climate Change, taking place on June 21st, 2022 (09.00 AM) at the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Civil Engineering. REGISTER NOW The workshop is envisaged as a stocktaking space in two fields of climate change. Firstly, it shall explore one side actions and measures undertaken by public and private actors in waste management, a topic that concerns all of us. Although climate change concerns us all the awareness level remains low. This is because the complexity of the…

RisiAlbania hosted a session at the first DC dVET – Donor Committee for dual Vocational Education and Training Online BarCamp “Gender & Inclusion in Dual VET Development Cooperation” and contributed in “Getting Beyond Indicators” discussion. The focus was put on the experience regarding inclusive education, incentives, and active labour market measures, while addressing Gender Equity and Social Inclusion needed policies. RisiAlbania has been using inclusion as an overarching principle throughout its interventions during these ongoing 10 years of labour market endeavours, in Albania. Investment in women has been shown to have significant knock-on development effects, as women spend additional income on the health and well-being of their families.…

ABSL Albania organized on the 27th of May the event of business service sector annual report of 2021, aiming to share with stakeholders key insights from this report. Part of the event were also important business figures mentioning here Mr Stephan Joss as a representative of Helvetas, Mr Eduard Shalsi, currently Chairman of the committee of finance and economy but for a long time as Minister of Entrepreneurship has been a good supporter of Albanian businesses and Mr Besart Kadia, currently Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy, who reaffirmed his readiness to listen and assist the sector. The event was organized in two discussion panels. The first panel…

Municipality of Tirana, National Agency for Employment and Skills, as well as the National  Agency for Vocational Education,Training and Qualifications, with the support of RisiAlbania, a project of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC, organized on May 10-11, 2022, the professions fair at Italia Square in Tirana. This professions fair, the first of its kind in Albania, started on Tuesday, May 10, at 10:00 a.m. with the participation of Mrs. Delina Ibrahimaj, Minister of Finance and Economy, Mr. Patrik Meier, Deputy Head of the Mission of the Swiss Embassy in Albania, and Mr. Erion Veliaj, Mayor of the Municipality of Tirana. The purpose of the fair…

The first meeting of the Skills Sectoral Committee in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) was suported by RisiAlbania in cooperation with the National Agency for Vocational Education, Training and Qualifications (NAVETQ) with the participation of elected members of the Skills Sectoral Committee in ICT, representatives from the Ministry of Finance and Economy, the Ministry of Education and Sports, the National Agency Employment and Skills (NAES), as well as independent experts. In her welcoming speech, the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, Mrs. Olta Manjani, emphasized the work that is being done on the new strategy where one of the main pillars is the involvement of…