1. ETF CORPORATE CONFERENCE 2012
MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE IN EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES.
Committee of the Regions, Brussels
31 May – 1 June 2012
Agenda

2. Day one, 31 May
Session 1 - Opening plenary
Room: JDE 52 - Committee of the Regions, Rue Belliard 101, Brussels
Chair: João Delgado, DG EAC
8:45 – 9:15 Registration of participants
Setting the scene: Multi-level governance in education and training - the added
value in EU acceding and neighbouring countries
Opening speeches:
Mercedes Bresso, President – Committee of the Regions
Danuta Maria Hübner, Chair of the Regional Development Committee – European
Parliament
9:15 – 10:30 Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and
Youth – European Commission (message)
Pervenche Berès, Chair of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee –
European Parliament (video message)
Madlen Serban, Director – European Training Foundation (ETF)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break (Atrium 5)
Multi-level governance in education and training: from theoretical to practical
opportunities and challenges.
Chair: Charles White, International Relations Officer – DG REGIO
Multilevel governance in public education and training policies: from theoretical
frameworks to empirical approaches.
Luc Van den Brande, President of CIVEX – Committee of the Regions (COR)
11:00 – 12:30 Oleksandr Demchyk, Chief of the Department for Education and Science –
Dnipropetrovsk State Regional Administration, Ukraine
Dario Baron, Assistant Minister – Ministry of Labour and Pension System, Croatia
The multilevel approach governing public policies: added value in the field of education
and training policies.
ETF presentation of results of study (Anastasia Fetsi, Head of Thematic Expertise
Development Department – ETF)
12:30 – 13:00 Debate and questions to the speakers
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch buffet (Atrium 5)
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3. Session 2 - Multi-level governance in education and training
challenges and opportunities: Thematic workshops
Rooms: JDE 51; JDE 52; JDE 53, JDE 70
Room JDE 51 (5th floor)
Workshop 1: Education and Training strategies as a driver for regional socio-
economic development
Facilitator: Marie Dorleans, Specialist in VET Policies and Systems - Country
Manager, ETF
Examples from Croatia, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Tunisia, France and Italy
Room JDE 53 (5th floor)
Workshop 2: Engaging and coordinating diverse actors in VET governance
Facilitator: J. Manuel Galvin Arribas, Specialist in Governance and LLL, ETF
14:00 – 17:00 Examples from Azerbaijan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Israel, Kazakhstan,
Morocco, United Kingdom
Coffee break Room JDE 52 (plenary room)
(Atrium 5)
Workshop 3: Good governance and VET providers.
15:30 – 15:50
Facilitator: Franca Crestani, Specialist in VET Policies and Systems - Country
Manager, ETF
Examples from former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Lebanon, Russia,
Tajikistan, European Vocational Training Association, Le Forem
Room JDE 70 (7th floor)
Workshop 4: Conditions and requirements for partnership in VET
Facilitator: Petri Lempinen, Specialist in VET and Social Partnership - Country
Manager, ETF
Examples from Republic of Moldova, occupied Palestinian territory, Turkey,
European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (UEAPME),
European Trade Union Confederation
Session 3 – Plenary
Room: JDE 52
Closure of day 1
17:00 – 17:30
Madlen Serban, Director – European Training Foundation (ETF)
19:30 Official dinner at Hotel Thon (Restaurant)
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4. Day two, 1 June
Session 1 – Closing plenary
Room: JDE 52
9:00 – 10:00 Presentation of the workshops findings (moderated session)
Reflections on the workshops findings from the COR networks
Nehal El Megharbel, Head of Local Administration Reform Unit, Ministry of Local
10:00 – 10:45 Development, Egypt (ARLEM)
Sergiy Ivanovich Chernov, Head of Kharkiv Regional Council, Ukraine (CORLEAP)
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break (Atrium 5)
Panel discussion on findings of the conference and work ahead
Panel members:
Gerhard Schumann-Hitzler, Director – DG ELARG
Hjördis Ogendo, Cooperation Officer – DG DEVCO
Ian Whitman, Head of Programme for Co-operation with Non Member Economies –
11:15 – 12:30 OECD
Namig Mammadov, Head of Technical Vocational Education Department, Ministry of
Education, Azerbaijan
Said Hanchane, Directeur général, Conseil Supérieur de l'Enseignement, Maroc
Jon Sigurdsson, Chairman of Joint Committee – Ministry of Education and Culture,
Iceland
Conclusions and next steps
Staffan Nilsson, President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
Mette Mørk Andersen, Attaché for Education and Youth – Permanent
12:30 – 13:30 Representation of Denmark to the EU (Danish Presidency of the European Union)
Antonio Silva Mendes, Director – DG EAC
Madlen Serban, Director – European Training Foundation (ETF)
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch buffet (Atrium 5)
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