{"id":1822,"date":"2025-04-23T12:45:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/focus-on-student-protection-during-internships-key-meeting-on-health-insurance-with-the-federal-ministry-of-health\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:17:07","slug":"focus-on-student-protection-during-internships-key-meeting-on-health-insurance-with-the-federal-ministry-of-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/en\/focus-on-student-protection-during-internships-key-meeting-on-health-insurance-with-the-federal-ministry-of-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Student Protection During Internships: Key Meeting on Health Insurance with the Federal Ministry of Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text-justify wp-block-paragraph\">How can we ensure that high school students are adequately covered by health insurance in the event of a workplace injury or occupational disease during their practical training? This crucial question brought together representatives of the Chamber of Commerce of the Zenica-Doboj Canton\u2014who chair the Interactional Focus Group for the Improvement of Secondary Vocational Education\u2014and the German development organization GIZ, in a meeting with the Federal Minister of Health, Nediljko Rimac, and his associates.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zdravstveno-osiguranje-ucenika-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"1802\" src=\"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zdravstveno-osiguranje-ucenika-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zdravstveno-osiguranje-ucenika-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zdravstveno-osiguranje-ucenika-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zdravstveno-osiguranje-ucenika-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zdravstveno-osiguranje-ucenika-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zdravstveno-osiguranje-ucenika-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"1805\" src=\"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zdravstveno-osiguranje-ucenika-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zdravstveno-osiguranje-ucenika-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zdravstveno-osiguranje-ucenika-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zdravstveno-osiguranje-ucenika-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zdravstveno-osiguranje-ucenika-2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zdravstveno-osiguranje-ucenika-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"1803\" src=\"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zdravstveno-osiguranje-ucenika-3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zdravstveno-osiguranje-ucenika-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zdravstveno-osiguranje-ucenika-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zdravstveno-osiguranje-ucenika-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Zdravstveno-osiguranje-ucenika-3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"text-justify wp-block-paragraph\">The reason? The preparation of a new Health Insurance Law and a shared desire to include clear and effective protections for students in the legal framework\u2014specifically in the event of injury or occupational illness during practical training.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-justify wp-block-paragraph\">This topic has been recognized as a priority by the Interactional Focus Group, which has adopted concrete conclusions and defined next steps to address this important issue.<br\/><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Legal experts and institutional representatives agree it is time for a systemic solution that will allow students to exercise their health insurance rights in the case of injury or occupational disease during internships. In the coming months, meetings are planned with cantonal ministries of health and health insurance institutes to discuss the most suitable legal solutions.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-justify wp-block-paragraph\">The meeting was held as part of the activities under the \u201cStrengthening Secondary Vocational Education and Training in BiH\u201d component of the project \u201cSustainable Economic Development and Promotion of Employment,\u201d implemented by GIZ and funded by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Government of the Swiss Confederation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can we ensure that high school students are adequately covered by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1827,"href":"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/1827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digigreen.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}