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The final Learning for Jobs conference

International VET conference co-organised by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) and the OECD on 28 September 2010 in Leipzig, Germany organised back-to-back with the OECD ‘5th Meeting of the Group of National Experts on Vocational Education and Training’, on 27 September 2010, hosted by BMBF. 

 

 

VET events with OECD participation

2011

  • 14 November, Meeting of the European Commission Advisory Committee on Vocational Education and Training, Brussels, Belgium.
  • 3 November, Global Human Resources Forum 2011 “Smart Education: Reinventing the Future”, Seoul, Korea.
  • 25 October, EUNEC Conference “New Skills and Jobs. New Challenges for VET”, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 22-23 September, Seminar “Vocational Training for Adults in Israel”, Nof Ginosar, Israel
  • 9 August, Seminar “VET and Growth in Denmark” organised by the Danish Minister of Education in Søro, Denmark.
  • 29 June, “The Education and Business Summit", South Carolina, USA.
  • 17-18 May, Hungarian Presidency Conference on “Increasing attractiveness and excellence of VET through quality and efficiency”, Budapest, Hungary.
  • 28-29 April, “Global Approaches to Vocational Education and Training: An evidence based OECD study, “Learning for Jobs”, Turkish Ministry of National Education, Izmir, Turkey.
  • 6 April, Technical School in Spain in Presence of the Strategy of Europe 2020, Ramon Areces Foundation, Madrid, Spain.
  • 29 March,  Arbeitgeberverband Gesamtmetall, the umbrella association of the regional employers’ associations in the German metal and electrical industry, Berlin, Germany.
  • 23-25 March,  East Asia conference ‘Skills Development for Productivity’, Jakarta, Indonesia.
  • 11  March, International Conference on the Process Mapping Levels of Qualifications in the Czech Republic to EQF Levels,  Prague, Czech Republic.
  • 7 February, Flanders Learning for Jobs Conference, Brussels, Belgium
  • 14 January, Schweizer Gewerbeverband umbrella organization of Swiss SMEs’ yearly ‘winter conference’, Klosters, Switzerland.

2010

  • 29 September - 1 October,  G.E.A.T. Conference ‘The Future of VET in a Changing World’, Cologne, Germany
  • 16-17 September, Herbsttagung, Round Table of Swiss VET Practitioners,  Bern, Switzerland.
  • 13-14 September, Quality in VET Research, (Qualitätssicherung in der Berufsbildungsforschung), Vienna.
  • 8-9 July, Second Austrian Conference for VET Research (2. Österreichische Konferenz für Berufsbildungsforschung), organised by BMUKK, Steyr, Austria.
  • 27 June - 1 July, "The Education and Business Summit", South Carolina, USA.
  • 11 May, National Annual Conference on VET (Mai Tagung), organised by the Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology (OPET), Bern, Switzerland.
  • 12 April,  “Final Dissemination Conference of the Czech VET Review: Learning for Jobs”, organised by the Czech National Institution of Technical and Vocational Education (NUOV), Prague/Czech Republic.

2009

  • 12-13 November, Conference on “The role of vocational education and training (VET) in meeting the challenges of today and tomorrow”, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • 9-10 November, “International Conference on Secondary Education in Latin-America”, organised by the Ministry of Education of Mexico, in cooperation with the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank and the Organization of Ibero-American States, Mexico City/Mexico
  • 20 October, Nordic Seminar on VET, Oslo/Norway
  • 12-13 October, Meeting of the Directors General for VET of EU member countries, Västerås/Sweden  
  • 9-10 September, Swiss Federal Institute for VET Annual Meeting, Lugano/Switzerland
  • 31 August, International Conference on ”Competing for Skills: Vocational Education and Training in the 21st Century”, Calgary/Canada

 

 

 

 

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