MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION “REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE FOR ”

RIPO is your reliable partner in vocational education development RIPO is an internationally recognized scientific, methodological and educational center, RIPO was awarded the which undertakes: Certificate of conformity to

 scientific research  training of scientific personnel the quality management system of higher qualification for the STB ISO 9001-2015 in design and  scientific, educational, system of vocational education provision of services in qualification organizational and metho­ upgrading and retraining of managerial staff dological provision of techni­  training of workers and and specialists in vocational education and cal vocational, secondary specialists with technical certified with German Accreditation specialized (including training vocational and secondary Agency DAkkS for compliance of people with SEN), continuous specialized education with the requirements of vocational training of workers DIN EN ISO 9001:2015 (employees)

 qualification upgrading and retraining of managerial and RIPO is the Reference teaching staff in vocational Organization for the CIS member education states in VET training, retraining and qualification upgrading of staff 248 employees are engaged in the system of technical in research, scientific and vocational and secondary methodological design, carrying specialized education out retraining and qualification upgrading of staff for vocational Center “EcoTechnoPark – Volma”, education system. The core of College of Modern Technologies RIPO’s teaching staff consists in Mechanical Engineering of highly-qualified specialists, and Automobile Technologies, among whom there are Industrial Pedagogical College, 4 Doctors of Science, 19 Candi­ Minsk State Auto-Mechanical dates of Science, 5 people have College named after academician RIPO closely cooperates with sectoral ministries of the Republic M.S. Vysotsky, Gomel State an academic title of Professor, of Belarus, foreign and Belarusian Embassies, the leading international Road Building College named organizations (UNESCO, UNEVOC, ETF, ILO) and manufacturing 15 – of Associate Professor. after Lenin Komsomol of Belarus, companies for solving the tasks of vocational education development. The structure of RIPO includes Molodechno State Polytechnic RIPO is the national operator of WorldSkills International in the several affiliates: Resource College. Republic of Belarus.

2 3 International Cooperation of RIPO openness to external requests RIPO provides educational services to foreign countries, using the educational environment capacity of educational institutions, balance of fundamentality resource centers and leading domestic enterprises. and practical orientation of the educational programmes Taking into account the national complex methodological interests of the countries it: provision of occupations; innovative training

 carries out design, as well  offers distant courses technologies as provides consulting and devoted to current problems OUR informational support for in theory and methodology of ADVANTAGES resource centers’ activities in vocational education; diversification of forms of order to train specialists in high-  carries out staff training training (intramural, extramural, end technologies; in the postgraduate center. distance learning)

 renders services in elaboration of educational programmes and external assessment of the educational programmes efficiency

cooperation with the leading specialists of educational institutions and economic sectors of the Republic of Belarus, the European Union countries and CIS

internships in the leading educational institutions and organisations of the Republic of Belarus Close business partnerships are established with and the European Union 40 regions of the Russian Federation, Kazakstan, , and Tadjikistan. Cooperation in the field of vocational training of staff is being actively developed with , , , Nigeria and other countries.

4 5 Possible directions and forms of cooperation in the sphere of vocational education

1. Establishing partnership relations between Belarusian and foreign vocational education institutions.

2. Organisation of internships for specialists, VET teachers and 3. Design of resource centers for training innovative production trainers in order to master modern high-tech manufacturing personnel and scientific and methodological support of the at the leading enterprises, resource centers and vocational educational process in the fields of: education institutions of the Republic of Belarus in the following directions:

 car service  construction  housing and communal 4. Development of professional services  road construction and road-building standards and educational machines  furniture production  food production programmes of vocational

 processing of grain and edible raw materials and secondary specialized education.  environmental management  energy efficiency Internship and energy preservation in the sectors of the national form is intramural, economy (renewable energy sources) from 1 weekup to 8 months at the leading organisations of the Republic of Belarus and EU countries. Internship is The training is conducted in also offered 5. Organization of online- Russian and English. as a supplement to the learning for students and The state-recognized programmes of qualification advanced training for VET certificate is issued upgrading and retraining teachers and trainers. according to the results of the teaching and of the internship. managerial staff.

6 7 6. Retraining of teachers for vocational educational institutions and on-the-job training in the specialty “Vocational Education” with qualification “Teacher”, managers in the specialty “Management of Vocational Education” with qualification “Manager As a result of training in Education”. students will receive a certificate with the right to engage in leadership/teaching activities in vocational educational architecture and institutions and industry. construction Mode of study is online with 8. Signing of license agreements intramural form of certification. for publication of educational Training is provided in literature with the right of engineering and translation into the state language. English and Russian technologies

car service and plumbing The institute foreign language has educational in the profession and methodical materials to ensure the educational process in the field of: sanitary 7. In the postgraduate school of RIPO training of highly maintenance qualified scientific personnel is provided on the of buildings following specialties: Educational woodworking machine building  "Theory and Methodology for Vocational programs of and metalworking Education"; postgraduate training and joinery with intramural and

 "Educational Psychology". extramural form and There is a Dissertation Supervisory Committee aspiration are being woodworking agriculture on the specialty “Theory and Methodology for implemented and joinery and forestry Vocational Education” in RIPO.

8 9 9. Training of competitors and experts of the WorldSkills International Сompetition.

Regulatory requirements and regulations of WorldSkills International, including The content of the amendments, approved by the General Assembly of WorldSkills in 2018 training program of Definition of roles and experts for international functions of experts, rules attestation with internships of conduct at international in resource centers competition workshops includes: Internship at resource centers in the following skills: Acquaintance with international professional standards of WorldSkills

Methodology for Assessment of construction development of training competition results and building programs for participants using the CIS system technologies of the International WorldSkills Competition social and personal services

manufacturing transport and and engineering logistics technologies

information and communication technology

10 11 Let us invite you to the hospitable Republic of Belarus!

Detailed information can be found at the Republican Institute for Vocational Education

Minsk, 220004, st. K. Liebknecht, 32 Tel./Fax +375 17 200 09 92, tel. 200 99 52 E-mail: [email protected] 12 http://ripo.unibel.by/foreign