RCF Annual
Regional Conference

Una Bejtovic is an award-winning communication expert, international public presentation skills trainer, and master of ceremonies with over 30 years of experience in public relations, media, and strategic communication. Since 2014, she has led her full-service agency, Bejtovic Communications, delivering hundreds of complex projects for corporate, government, NGO, and international clients. Recognized for her industry contributions, she received the 2023 Woman.Comm of the Year – Special Star Award. Her career milestones include working on a breaking news story at CNN International Desk in Atlanta, alongside global engagements as an MC and trainer in Annapolis, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Vienna, and Munich. A guest lecturer bridging academic insight with practice, Una actively advocates for women's advancement, human rights, and civil courage. She is a PhD candidate in Global Studies at the University of Sarajevo, where she previously earned her Master’s in Democracy and Human Rights and Bachelor’s in Bosnian Literature and Language.

Jelena Manic Radoicic is a Senior Employability and Human Resources Expert with more than 20 years of experience in project management, workforce development and training. As Regional Coordinator and Deputy Team Leader of the Regional Challenge Fund, she supports partnerships between vocational education and training providers and enterprises across the Western Balkans, helping strengthen work-based learning and skills development.

Her expertise spans youth employment, career guidance and counseling, vocational education policy, and the green transition. She has advised and delivered training to businesses across sectors, working directly with managers on leadership, talent development, and career growth. With a combination of HR consulting and regional workforce expertise, she will moderate a dialogue with business representatives on addressing skills shortages.

Antonie Onosimoski is a senior VET, skills development and labour market specialist with 28+ years of experience in national and international development projects, primarily in North Macedonia and the wider Balkan region. At the beginning of his career, he worked for six years as a VET teacher, gaining first-hand experience in vocational teaching, practical skills development and cooperation with employers. He holds a PhD in Management – Competences of Teachers, a Master’s Degree in HR Management and a degree in Electrical Engineering.

His professional experience combines VET policy, skills development, employment and institutional reform with extensive cooperation between VET providers, employers, industry and public institutions. He has supported employer-responsive curricula and training, work-based learning, dual VET, company-specific skills programmes, partnerships with businesses, and stronger social dialogue and private-sector engagement.

For nearly three decades, he has contributed to development projects supported by the EU, World Bank, ETF, OECD, SDC, USAID and other international organizations, working with ministries, VET institutions, employment services, employers and social partners. His recent work focuses on work-based learning, VET excellence, innovation, lifelong learning, partnerships and the development of Centres of Vocational Excellence.

Dr. Hannes Tegelbeckers is a research associate at the Chair of Vocational and Business Education at Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, headed by Prof. Dr. Frank Bünning. His work focuses on technical and vocational education and training (TVET), teacher education, AI literacy, international cooperation, and open educational resources (OER). He is also affiliated with the UNESCO-UNEVOC Centre Magdeburg and serves as a UNESCO-UNEVOC AI Expert. He co-authored the UNESCO practical guide "Integrating AI in TVET". At OVGU, he is the speaker of the working group Digitalisation in Teacher Education (AK Digitalisierung im Lehramt) and a member of the Focus Group AI (Fokusgruppe KI).

Johann Schustereder, a citizen of Austria, is a freelance education consultant and COE of NOVUM CONSULTING Education & Competency Development. After a career in teaching in Austria, Mr. Schustereder served as representative in educational cooperation between Austria, Russia and Ukraine. Following assignments in international organizations, including the OSCE in Macedonia, he has worked as fulltime education consultant since 2013. Mr. Schustereder has implemented several large projects for the European Commission, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank Group, the GIZ and the KfW. His fields of expertise include vocational education and training, adult education, lifelong learning, project preparation and implementation, analysis of education systems, feasibility studies, and curricula development. His current assignments include a KfW-financed project in Ukraine with focus on infrastructure rehabilitation, the establishment of centres of excellence and the promotion of adult education. Mr. Schustereder is fluent in German, Russian, English and French.