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International Experts Meeting, Berlin, 26-28 August 2009
"Quality TVET has a very important role in achieving education for sustainable development"
The International Experts Meeting on “Re-orienting TVET Policy Towards Education for Sustainable Development (ESD): A Building Block for Education for All (EFA)”, took place in Berlin, Germany, on 26-28 August 2009. It was organized jointly by the Colombo Plan Staff College for Technician Education (CPSC),Capacity Building International (InWEnt) and UNESCO-UNEVOC.
Building on the results of the March 2009 Bonn ESD World Conference, this international TVET experts meeting aimed to function as a catalyst for the integration of sustainable development focused objectives, themes, strategies and operating procedures into TVET policies, programmes and practices.
The discussions at the meeting, which involved senior level government officials, TVET policy makers, and education officers from the Asia-Pacific Region (namely Bangladesh, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Pakistan, Nepal, India, Myanmar, Maldives, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Fiji Islands and Mongolia), focused on the following ESD concerns: