TRAIN plus - Meeting Of Public Universities Representatives on Academic Personnel Professional Development

At the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CIS), University of Sarajevo, on 10 and 11 September 2019, the fourth meeting of the Commission for Developing Academic Personnel Professional Development Framework at the BH level was held.
The commissioners are representatives of all public universities in BiH appointed by the Rectors' Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the aim of devising the concept for continuous professional development at BiH universities, while respecting each individual university’s expert potentials. After many years of experience and successful TRAIN Program implementation, the University of Sarajevo has assumed a coordinating role in the process.
The meeting participants were welcomed by Prof. Dr. Aida Hodžić, University of Sarajevo Vice-Rector for Teaching and Student Affairs, emphasizing the importance of TRAIN Program for the professional development of academic personnel. She further stated that she hoped that the Commission would continue its work with the common goal of developing a professional development framework for university teachers and associates. The topics of the meeting included a review of training the trainers, the results achieved at individual universities regarding the TRAIN program’s systematic design, as well as the formulation of Commission’s joint findings to be presented to the Rector's Conference of BiH.
All attendees emphasized the great satisfaction with the achieved results and the willingness to make additional efforts in order to realize the planned ones. The Commission’s activities in the previous period were financially supported by the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF).