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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

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Air Force Academy, MTU continue successful cooperation

Belgrade, 21 February 2023

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic visited today the Training Centre of the Air Force Academy and attended the presentation of a donation by MTU company to this educational institution, an Airbus 318 aero engine, which will be used as a learning tool at the Academy for secondary school and college students.

On this occasion, Brnabic expressed her gratitude to MTU for the donation, as well as for its decision to choose Serbia as the investment destination and build a factory in Stara Pazova, where 230 people already work, and the plan is to have 500 employees in a few years.

She said she is particularly happy that MTU does not hide that investing in Serbia was a good decision.

We hope that in partnership with MTU and the Air Force Academy we will bring foreigners to study and work in our country, the Prime Minister said and underlined that so far RSD 377 million has been invested in the development of the Air Force Academy.

This is just the beginning because we will invest €65 million in the development of the regional training centre at locations in Belgrade and Vrsac in the next few years, by which that centre will become the only one of its kind in this part of Europe, Brnabic underlined and noted that there is already interest in studies from different parts of the world.

According to her, it is also important that personnel for the Ministry of the Interior and the Serbian Armed Forces will also get the best education there.

The Prime Minister pointed to the importance of dual education, which is implemented through cooperation of MTU and the Air Force Academy.

Dual education helped us bring some of the largest investors from Germany to Serbia, she underlined and called on students and their parents, as well as companies to join models of dual education in even greater numbers.

Brnabic pointed out that there is a huge difference in quick employment and salaries between secondary school students who had dual education and those from classic vocational secondary schools and added that 62 percent of those who graduated in 2022 according to the dual model are already employed and their average monthly salary is €640, as opposed to 37 percent of those who graduated from classic secondary schools and their average monthly salary is €556.

MTU Chief Programme Officer Michael Schreyögg said that today’s donation is a very small gift compared to what this company gets in Serbia.

The result of our cooperation is also motivation for future generations. We expect this gift to contribute to further prosperity of our cooperation too, he said.

MTU announced today that the number of employees in that company in Serbia will grow to 500 in next few years, and that they expect personnel from the Air Force Academy.

Director of the Air Force Academy Goran Cvijovic described the four-year cooperation with MTU as excellent, adding that at the Academy they are trying to follow this company in terms of development.

The first generations of students at the Academy are already taught after the dual education model, in cooperation with MTU.

Cvijovic said that, with the planned development, the Academy will be able to educate through the training centre, college and the secondary school a total of 1,500 aviation personnel, who will obtain European aviation licences.