Meeting: “TVET and ESD in CIS”

19 to 22 October 2010, Bonn, Germany

The UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training and Capacity Building International (InWEnt) conducted a UNEVOC Network sub-regional consultation meeting on building capacity for TVET and ESD in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), in cooperation with UNESCO Moscow Cluster Office (Moscow, Russian Federation).

The meeting aimed to support educational leaders from UNEVOC centres to assist CIS countries in addressing global sustainable development challenges. In that regard, the meeting provided opportunities to discuss about the broad and inclusive concept of ESD and its initiatives in order to integrate it into TVET curricula, learning materials and activities. UNEVOC centres were facilitated in engaging with the other UNEVOC Centres outside of the CIS region, in particular from Germany, Norway, Georgia and Ukraine.

During the meeting, the focus was to review current trends, international discourse and potential TVET contributions in addressing global sustainable development challenges; to comprehend country perspective of ESD-related best practices and innovations in enhancing the quality of TVET; formulating programme directives and strategies for ensuring an efficient implementation of the DESD through the UNEVOC Network; to clarify the respective roles and responsibilities of UNEVOC Centres in enhancing scientific excellence, research and ESD-related knowledge development and innovations in TVET for the Second Half of the DESD. Hence, particular issues were discussed on i) responding to a sustainable labour market through TVET; ii) increasing ESD understanding and involvement of TVET stakeholders; iii) regionalizing and coordinating the integration of ESD into TVET through the UNEVOC Network.

Documents

Final Report

List of participants

Background paper and programme

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