A Mobile Training Team for Central Asia

In 2005, UNESCO-UNEVOC facilitated co-operation on social partnership in TVET between UNEVOC Centres in Central Asia and partners in Germany through the organisation of a Mobile Training Team (MTT). During a UNESCO-UNEVOC sub-regional workshop in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in 2002, social partnership in TVET had been identified as a priority issue in TVET across the region.

In July/August 2005, four TVET specialists, one each from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, participated in an InWEnt training seminar on social partnerships in TVET, with special focus on assessment and certification. They also visited a number of German TVET institutions, such as BiBB (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training). Upon return to their countries, the participants of the MTT organised national seminars to disseminate their newly acquired knowledge with other TVET specialists and stakeholders and to identify means of applying it in the respective national contexts.

• Kazakhstan, 5-6 December 2005
• Kyrgyzstan, 24-25 January 2006
• Tajikistan, 20-21 February 2006
• Uzbekistan, 9-11 November 2005

The MTT led not only to an improvement of the skills and knowledge of the four individual TVET experts who came to Germany, but, through the national dissemination workshops, it had a broader impact. A wide range of stakeholders came together in each of the countries to discuss the future of TVET. A foundation has been laid for integrating social partnership in TVET in the Central Asian states. For example, the Trier Chamber of Commerce is looking into further collaboration with Kyrgystan and Tajikistan on this issue.

Related Activities

Sub-regional UNESCO-UNEVOC workshop, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2002

Contact

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