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UNESCO-UNEVOC
at WorldSkills Leipzig 2013!
The UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and
Vocational Education and Training will be present during a number
of side events, workshops and conferences at WorldSkills Leipzig
2013, from 1 to 7 July 2013. Here is an overview.
Come and meet us at the interactive UNESCO-UNEVOC info booth,
located in Hall 1
“Green Industrial Skills for Sustainable Development: Risks and Challenges for Least-
Developed Countries”.
1 July 2013, 09:30 to 17:45 (open event –registration required)
Shyamal Majumdar, Head of the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and
Vocational Education and Training, to chair a roundtable discussion from 14:00 to 15:00.
UNIDO 1 and WorldSkills Germany are jointly organizing this conference with the support of
BMZ 2 and the WorldSkills Foundation.
The main purpose of the conference is to increase awareness on the importance of green
industrial skills development amongst countries worldwide, to promote green industrial
skills for a better future of deprived young people, and to enhance their chance of
employment and income.
The plenary discussion and following roundtables shall provide input for potential policy
change and national programmes in the area of education and green skills development,
and shall give an opportunity to directly exchange knowledge and expertise of high-level
decision-makers coming from various fields around the globe, such as national
governments, academia, UN organizations, civil society and the private sector.
1 United Nations Industrial Development Organization
2 German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

BIBB Global Partners Meeting (by invitation only)
3 to 5 July 2013
in cooperation with UNESCO-UNEVOC.
BIBB 3 maintains co-operation agreements with 30 vocational education institutions
worldwide. Participants invited by BIBB will examine the topics of green skills and greening
TVET from different angles during a 3-day conference and workshop programme. L. Hunter
Lovins, co-author of Natural Capitalism, will be a keynote speaker. During an attractive
programme including the visit of numerous WorldSkills events and a tour of the
Competence Centre Building and Education Leipzig, as well as the Partner Exchange there
will be enough time for the colleagues to exchange experiences and to network.
In the context of the Global Partners Meeting, UNESCO-UNEVOC will lead a panel
Discussion on “The United Nations Decade of Education and Sustainable Development –
the Contribution of “Greening TVET”:
4 July 2013, 15:30 – 17:00
Panelists:
• Prof. John Fien, Professor of Sustainability in the Innovation Leadership
programme, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
• Dr. Laila Iskandar Kamel, Chair, Community and Institutional Development (CID)
Consulting, Cairo, Egypt
• Dr. Shyamal Majumdar, Head of UNESCO-UNEVOC, Bonn, Germany
• Antonio Ranieri, Senior Expert, Cedefop, Thessaloniki, Greece
Chair:
Dagmar Winzier, ESD Expert, UNESCO-UNEVOC, Bonn, Germany
Global Skills Marketplace, Conference Center Leipzig (CCL)
5 July 2013, 10:00- 16:00
The Global Skills Marketplace (GSM) is the international forum where members and guests
are invited to “Discover Skills Unlimited”. It takes place in the Conference Center (CCL) on
Friday, 5 July, from 10 to 16.00h, in five seminar sessions covering different topics. This
specific seminar series aim to demonstrate the broad spectrum of current developments in
3 German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training

vocational and education training worldwide and to share successful best-practice
examples. Within these sessions it will be discussed how WorldSkills International, its
Members, Germany (as the host of WorldSkills Leipzig 2013), and partners from areas such
as industry, government and education act upon the challenges of globalization. Diverse
perspectives and different backgrounds shall provide a stage which stimulates discussions
and knowledge sharing between participants and presenters.
Two sessions are organized by the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre:
Round 1, 10-10:45
1B - Development of ICT-based teaching and learning media: “Global Campus 21” as an
effective digital tool for online learning: Examples from Indonesia, Vietnam and Laos
Presented by: UNESCO-UNEVOC in collaboration with the UNEVOC Centre Magdeburg
“TVET for Sustainable Development”. Speakers are Johannes Fleischle (UNEVOC Centre
Magdeburg/GIZ), Bakti Gunawan (P4TK, Indonesia), Hardianto Hardianto (STTT),
Khamnothammackak Vixayher (IVETS).
Round 3, 13-13:45
3A - Promising practices from UNESCO's global UNEVOC Network: Innovative use of ICT
to improve access and quality of vocational training in Brazil, the Philippines and
Germany
Presented by: UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre with UNEVOC Network members
from Brazil, Philippines, and Germany: Shyamal Majumdar (UNESCO-UNEVOC), Max Ehlers
(UNESCO-UNEVOC), Sonia Ana Leszczynski (UTFPR 5 , Brazil), Atty Teodoro Pascua (TESDA 6 ,
Philippines), Michael Härtel (BIBB, Germany).
Networking Session: 15:00 - 17:00 (CCL, Level +1, Conference Room 3)
The GSM networking session is a platform for worldwide networking and initialization of
cooperation between national vocational education and training institutions from all over
the world and the GSM organizers and participants.
PARTICIPANTS: Global Skills Marketplace presenters and participants, BIBB, WorldSkills
representatives, National Vocational Education and Training institutions from all over the
5 Universidade Tecnologica Federal do Paraná, Brazil
6 Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, Philippines

world.
(Registration needed. 30€ for a morning OR afternoon session and 45 € for the whole day,
the networking session is included in both.)
Specialists in Water Technology – The Hidden Champions?
(Stanley Hall and CCL, Conference Room 4)
DWA - German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste
4 July 2013, 09:00 to 17:45
Clean Water is a privilege. Specialists in Water Technology – serving round the clock,
throughout the year, all around the world. What qualifications are necessary, how to
improve recognition, education and training for this desperately required profession?
09:00 – 13:00, Stanley Hall
Visit and Demonstration Skill “Water Operator”
13:00 to 17:45 CCL, Conference Room 4 (open event – registration needed):
Presentations and discussion, with a contribution from UNEVOC Network member Peter
Holden, Director International Engagement & Business Development, TAFE Directors
Australia on “Greening TVET – a world perspective”.
Chair: Dipl.-Ing. Rüdiger Heidebrecht, Head of Department, Training and international
Cooperation, DWA, Hennef, Germany
Moderation: Dr. Reza Ardakanian, Head of UNW-DPC, Bonn, Germany
Skilling the Future – VET and Workplace Learning for Economic Success
Organizers: OECD 10 and BMBF 11
4-5 July 2013
Borhene Chakroun, Chief of UNESCO’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training
Section, will speak at the conference, among other high-level speakers such as Yves
Leterme, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD and Cornelia Quennet-Thielen, State Secretary
10 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
11 Federal Ministry of Education and Research

at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), to name but a few.
(by invitation only)International vocational competitions such as WorldSkills Leipzig 2013
make the quality, innovations, the future viability, and the significance of vocational
training visual and easily experienced. The Conference – a joint venture by BMBF and OECD
has the goal to convey the significance of vocational training in specific segments such as
on-job training to an international specialised public and make national modernizations of
vocational training profit from the international wealth of experience. The conference will
bring together policy makers, researchers and business representatives from around the
world to discuss key policy challenges and potential solutions.
Global Skills Exchange: Tackling the global talent gap
6 July 2013, 08:30 - 17:00 (open event – registration needed)
Borhene Chakroun, Chief of UNESCO’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training
Section, will speak at the Global Skills Exchange. Special guest is Her Excellency, Amena
Afzali, Minister of Labour & Social Affairs, Afghanistan.
The next global skills challenge is about tackling the massive imbalances and skills gaps that
exist between developed and emerging economies, skills mismatches which hold back
productivity, competitiveness and development. Skills mismatches obstruct mobility
essential to quality and productivity improvement in business and inward investment. The
conference looks at the experiences and policy dilemmas of G7, BRICS, MENA and Gazelles
country models, transnational companies, and key global business sectors. It will see the
publication of new research on the factors critical to improving vocational and technical
education mobility.
Skills are the new global currency. This ground-breaking event will investigate new
approaches to tackling skills mismatches, including the recognition and validation of skills
from an industry and transnational perspective.

About UNESCO-UNEVOC
UNESCO-UNEVOC is UNESCO’s specialized centre for technical and vocational education
and training (TVET). From its location in Bonn, Germany, it serves UNESCO Member States
worldwide to develop and strengthen their TVET systems. The International Centre has the
unique mandate to promote and support countries implement TVET that is
• relevant
• lifelong and
• accessible to all.
UNESCO-UNEVOC focuses on meeting the needs of developing countries, countries in
transition and those in a post-conflict situation, especially for youth, girls and women, and
the disadvantaged. To achieve this, UNESCO-UNEVOC uses tools such as:
• networking
• advocacy and capacity development
• knowledge sharing and publications
• inter-agency cooperation and partnerships.
UNEVOC delivers its services to UNESCO Member Countries via its worldwide Network,
which consists of specialized TVET institutions in almost all UNESCO Member Countries.

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Find us at WorldSkills Leipzig!
We are:
Shyamal Majumdar
unevoc@unesco.org
Max Ehlers
m.ehlers@unesco.org
Alix Wurdak
a.wurdak@unesco.org
Aldrich Mejia
a.mejia2@unesco.org
Dagmar Winzier
d.winzier@unesco.org