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Below you can access presentations made at "Skills for Work and Life - post 2015" in pdf format.
Click on the pictures for a selection of photographs (links go to flickr):
Day 1
Day 1, 14 October 2014 |
Plenary Session 1: Opening and Keynote Session |
Welcome Messages |
Shyamal Majumdar (Head, UNESCO-UNEVOC) |
Svein Østtveit (Director, Executive Office, UNESCO, Paris) |
Verena Metze-Mangold (Vice President, German Commission for UNESCO) |
Heike Kuhn (Head of Division, BMZ Germany) |
Maximilian Metzger (Deputy Director General, BMBF Germany) |
Keynote Address |
Joe Samuels (Chief Executive Officer, SAQA South Africa) |
Plenary Session 2: HRD for Sustainability in the post-2015 agenda: Response of OneUN in Bonn |
Amanda Mukwashi (Chief, Volunteer Knowledge and Innovation Section UNV |
Lyndle Lindow (Coordinator of Administrative and Finance Services, UNCCD) |
Juan Carlos Villagrán de León (Head, UN-SPIDER) |
Nick Nuttall (Coordinator for Communications and Outreach, UNFCCC) |
Shyamal Majumdar (Head, UNESCO-UNEVOC) |
Plenary Session 3: Plenary 3: Transforming TVET through the UNEVOC Network |
Gita Subrahmanyam (Research Associate, London School of Economics and Political Science) |
Formal Inauguration of Exhibition |
Wassilios Fthenakis (President, DIDACTA) |
Parallel Session 1: Entrepreneurial skills – can entrepreneurial success be learned? |
James Eder (Founder, The Beans Group, UK) |
Souheir Sami Mouchawrab/Mirna Mansour (Teacher/Student, VTC of Bir Hassan, Lebanon) |
Joshua Bicknell (Co-Founder, Balloon Ventures, UK) |
Parallel Session 2: School-to-work transitions – perspectives from the formal and informal sectors |
Diego Rei (Senior Technical Advisor on Youth Employment, ILO ROAF, Addis Ababa) |
Christian Brzinsky-Fay (Senior Researcher, Berlin Social Science Centre, Germany) |
John Simiyu (Professor of Technology Education, University of Eldoret, Kenya) |
Marie-Josee Fortin (Director of International Partnerships, Colleges and Institutes, Canada) |
Parallel Session 3: Private Sector Cooperation in TVET – what works? |
Atul Bhatnagar (CEO, National Skills Development Corporation, India) |
York Sievers (Director, AHK, VET, Germany) |
Ohuma Juliet Chukkas-Onaeko (DG/Chief Executive, Industrial Training Fund, Nigeria) |
Leif Edvinsson (Ambassador, Leonardo Award) |
Day 2, 15 October 2014 |
Reflection on day 1 - Keith Holmes (Programme Specialist, UNESCO, Paris) |
Plenary Session 4: Beyond the ESD Decade: Response from the IAWG on Greening TVET & Skills development |
Cristina Martinez (Advisor, Knowledge Sharing Alliance, OECD) |
Anastasia Fetsi (Head, Thematic Expertise Development Department, ETF) |
Kazutoshi Chatani (Skills Development Officer, ILO) |
Nicholas Sofroniou (Expert, Socio-economic Research and Analysis, CEDEFOP) |
Shyamal Majumdar (Head, UNESCO-UNEVOC) |
Plenary Session 5: Promising Practices in TVET |
Youth and Skills |
Angelika Puhlmann (BIBB Germany) (Powerpoint, 32 MB) |
Oussama Ghneim (CERD Lebanon) |
Natalee Plunkett (Heart Trust NTA Jamaica) |
Sola Aliu (SDRE Nigeria) |
Janaka Jayalath (TVEC Sri Lanka) |
Greening TVET |
Ji Sun Chung (KRIVET Rep. of Korea) |
Javier Bonilla Herrera (INA Costa Rica) |
Daniel LaBillois (Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles, campus de Carleton-sur-Mer Canada) |
Pradeep Joosery (MITD Mauritius) |
Parallel Session 4: Greening TVET - Policies and approaches for meeting skills for sustainability |
Shyamal Majumdar (Head, UNESCO-UNEVOC) |
Cristina Martinez (Senior Advisor, KSA, OECD) |
Liu Yufeng (Director and Research Professor, CIVTE, MoE P. R. China) |
Robert Mahlman (Director, CETE, The Ohio State University, USA) |
Parallel Session 5: Teaching, learning and training Green TVET |
Erik Swars (Senior International Manager, SFIVET, Switzerland) |
Barbara Hemkes/Dagmar Winzier (Division Head, BIBB, Germany/ Programme Specialist, UNESCO-UNEVOC) |
Georg Spöttl (Department Head, ITB Bremen, Germany) |
Parallel Session 6: Skills for inclusive societies |
Madhu Singh (Sr. Programme Specialist, UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning) |
Herve Huot- Marchand (TVET Expert, UNESCO Dakar) |
Jose Fernando Araya (Director de Cooperacion Externa, INA, Costa Rica) |
Margarita Pavlova (Director, UNEVOC Centre & Co-Director, Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development, HKIEd) |
Steve Cumming (Program Manager, Youth Learning, The Mastercard Foundation) |
Day 3, 16 October 2014 |
Reflections on Day 2 - Astrid Hollander (Programme Specialist, UNESCO, Paris) |
Plenary Session 6: Fresh TVET Outlook: Multi-Stakeholder Response |
Simon Bartley (President, WorldSkills International) |
Olga Oleynikova (President, IVETA) |
Cristina Martinez (Advisor, Knowledge Sharing Alliance, OECD) |
Peter Greenwood (Head of Evidence-based Policy Making Department, ETF) |
Borhene Chakroun (Chief of Section, Youth, Literacy and Skills Development, UNESCO Paris) |
Plenary 7: Closing Session |
Reinhold Weiß (Vice President, BIBB Germany) |
Günther Taube (Head, Education, Health, Social Security Division, GIZ Germany) |