The aim of the project is to involve industry representatives more widely in activities aimed at improving the vocational training system, strengthening employers' cooperation with schools providing vocational training and developing skills in the workplace. Both the economic changes of recent years, as well as the development of new technologies and the increasing digitalisation and the COVID-19 pandemic, and the refugee crisis, make it more challenging than ever to adapt VET on an ongoing basis to the ever-changing external environment. This process should be carried out in cooperation with employers’ representatives, both by using the solutions and tools provided by the 2019 vocational education reform, as well as by applying new solutions involving industry representatives in the ongoing monitoring and improvement of the vocational education system and disseminating the opportunities and benefits of cooperation with industry education in the employers’ environment. The project provides for the implementation of 4 main tasks, i.e.: -- Conducting dialogue with industries in the field of vocational training and skills development in the workplace - Strengthening the participation of representatives of industries in the improvement of the vocational training system and the development of skills in the workplace - Promotion of vocational training - Development of proposals for organizational and legal solutions for the recruitment of specialists from the market for work in vocational education The implementation of these tasks will be carried out synchronously, adequate to the progress of the various stages of the project. The rapidly changing economic reality and new technologies appearing on the market make it necessary to involve employers in determining the competences of the future, which should gradually be included in the curricula and in defining the professions and qualifications of the future, which are worth expanding the offer of industry education and non-formal education in the future. The challenge also remains to prepare solutions enabling the recruitment of specialists in the market to work in schools educating in professions. Since 2019, cooperation with employers has become the responsibility of the school. It may concern, among others, the creation of patronage classes, joint development of the vocational curriculum, the implementation of practical vocational training, the improvement of vocational education teachers, the implementation of vocational counselling and the promotion of vocational education. With a view to strengthening cooperation between schools and employers, the Ministry of National Education has prepared specific solutions and financial incentives that favor employer-school cooperation. In 2021, the organisation of so-called industry education forums was launched with the participation of representatives of key organisations, institutions, employers and sector councils, industry-specific ministries and schools providing vocational training. This cooperation aims not only to familiarize industry representatives with changes in vocational education, but above all to make entrepreneurs aware of their important role in the development of industry education and to jointly plan and take actions aimed at the development of vocational education and lifelong learning. Previous meetings, organized as part of projects: However, the "Support and development of cooperation and coordination mechanisms at central and regional level on lifelong learning (formal education, non-formal education and informal learning)" and "Strengthening the Integrated Qualifications System through the support of competent ministers", co-financed by the European Union, covered only about 20 of the more than 100 professional fields, while the experience gained during their organisation shows the need to continue and broaden activities in this area. cd. in the Annex.