In November 2020 we became the first school in Slovenia to receive the European Commission's Vet Excellence Award, which placed BIC Ljubljana at the forefront of innovative vocational education and training in Europe in the category of excellence in vocational education and training. The European Commission nominated Biotechnical Education Centre Ljubljana as a finalist in a prestigious competition of excellence in vocational education and training.
For the excellence award in the category VET innovators award BIC Ljubljana presented numerus activities that we implement in different educational programmes. School microbrewery BIC Ljubljana that works in the frame of Centre of Culinary and Tourism KULT316 was presented in the special introductory video. Our students of food and nutrition program developed Newdels, wheat durum pasta with barley pomace, that result from the beer production process and end up as waste. In the final product, they represent as much as 18 percent of the final mass. With them, they won a bronze award at the Ecotrophelia 2019 competition and a silver award at the EIT Food Innovation international competition.
The »VET Innovators Award« aims to identify a European VET provider that has contributed to VET excellence through innovative practices. We competed in the European final against a consortium of vocational and technical schools from Finland.
MSc. Jasna Kržin Stepišnik, director of BIC Ljubljana
"I would like to thank all employees for the excellent work of each of you and for your contribution to the development and excellence of BIC Ljubljana. We are proud of our work and we are thrilled that this has been recognized also at European level. Our main mission is education and we will continue to strive to ensure that our students and adult learners enjoy excellent conditions for education."
You can watch the announcement of the winners on the YouTube clip starting at 1:17:50.
