State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade, Tourism, and Telecommunications Tatjana Matić has said that the Ministry has launched a project approved within the UNESCO programme “Raising digital capacities of teachers for teaching in the field of computer science and information technologies”.

“The line Ministry tends to provide support to the process of modernisation of education launched by the introduction of computer science as an obligatory subject. We believe that developing and promoting digital skills for teachers is necessary, and that the principles all these trainings are based on, and based on which the trainees of the primary trainings will later provide secondary training, will contribute to raising the quality of teaching in the field of ICT”; says Ms Matić.

She reminded that the Ministry has supported projects for the creation of multimedia manual for coding, with aim to support the study and application of ICT in education, and that the project of connecting schools to the Academic Network of Serbia and introduction of Wi-Fi in schools in underdeveloped municipalities has also been realised.

Trainings within the project “Raising digital capacities of teachers for teaching in the field of computer science and information technologies” will be realised in four cycles for 15 teachers in each of them, that is, 60 teachers will be given certificates as “Trainers in the field of computer science”.

The first cycle starts today in Belgrade, in PS “Veselin Masleša”, for the teachers from 15 schools from Belgrade, Kovin, Aranđelovac, Pančevo, and Smederevo. The next cycles will be held regionally.