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Minsk, Belarus, 14-16 May 2009
The International Conference on Vocational Training and Education for Sustainable Development” (14-16 May 2009) was held in Minsk (Belarus) at the initiative of the Ministry of Education of Belarus and the Conference of the CIS Ministers of Education in cooperation with the CIS Executive Committee, the UNESCO Moscow Office, the CIS Intergovernmental Foundation for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Cooperation (IFESCCO), the CIS Ministries of Education and Science, the European Training Foundation (ETF), the UNESCO International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (UNESCO-UNEVOC), the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE), the Capacity Building International (InWent), and the Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association (DVV).
The Conference was a timely follow-up to the Bonn World Conference on ESD (March 31-April 2 2009) and the International Forum “Education for Sustainable Development: On the Way to the Knowledge Society” (April 5-6, 2005, Minsk). Along with the International Conference, the XVI Conference of the CIS Ministers of Education (14-15 May, 2009, Minsk) ran in parallel. Participation in the Conference of the Ministers of Education strengthened cooperation between UNESCO and the CIS in the sphere of TVET and ESD development within the CIS.
Along with the CIS and several European Ministers of Education, the Conference brought together heads of TVET departments of the CIS Ministries of Education; heads and rectors of vocational education development institutes of the CIS states; educational policy-makers and authorities; representatives of the CIS Executive Secretariat, IFESCCO, the CIS Intergovernmental statistics committee; UNESCO Headquarters, UNESCO Moscow Office, ETF, IITE, UNESCO-UNEVOC, national coordinators of the CIS UNEVOC network, InWEnt, DW, experts of the World Bank, the International Labour Organization, UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), the UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE), TVET system representatives of the Republic of Belarus and others.
The Conference adopted a resolution on TVET for sustainable development of the CIS member states and recommendations for strengthening regional cooperation in qualified work force training.
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