Program and Presentations - Thursday 26th May

Time Item
10.00 Opening Presentations
10.00

Samarbete mellan skolor och företag
Organiser: Youth Skills Sweden
Language: Swedish
Target group: Vocational training teachers and people from different organisations in Sweden and Finland
Chairperson: Mr Claes Frankhammar, Youth Skills Sweden,

Presentations by:
Skolminister Ibrahim Baylan, Utbildningsdepartementet, Kanslichef Claes Frankhammar, Youth Skills Sweden
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For a copy of the DVDs shown in this presentation please contact Mr Claes Frankhammar.
Generaldirektör Pia Enochsson, Myndigheten för skolutveckling, Enhetschef Peter Holmberg, Myndigheten för skolutveckling
Direktör Tommy Hellström, Svenskt Näringsliv, Utbildningschef Lars-Åke Henriksson, LO
Representant från Lärarförbundet

 

12.00

Opening Ceremony
Opening Ceremony takes place in the Congress Hall C1. The ceremony is open to all WorldSkills 2005 visitors.
 
Speakers:
Ms Tuula Haatainen, Minister of Education, Finland
Mr Ján Figél, Member of European Commission, Education and Culture
Mr Jack Dusseldorp, President, WorldSkills
Ms Kirsi Lindroos, Director General, Finnish National Board of Education

Music by the Finnish Pop & Jazz Conservatory

 

13.00 European Union Cooperation in Developing Vocational Education and Training: The Copenhagen Process
 

Organiser: Ministry of Education Finland, Centre for International Mobility CIMO
Language: English
Target group: VET policy-makers, education providers, social partners 
NB. Limited number of seats. The places will be handed out in the arrival order.
Contact: Mrs Paula Rouhiainen, paula.rouhiainen@cimo.fi

The seminar will concentrate on the current challenges and opportunities that European countries face with the Vocational Education and Training (VET) systems and policies. In particular it will present the Copenhagen process and its implementation as an example of policy cooperation in the field of VET.

Copenhagen Process aims at enhanced cooperation in European vocational education and training. It underlines the important role VET has to play in order European Union to achieve the goal to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world. The aims and priorities of this process were agreed in the Copenhagen Declaration adopted in December 2002 by the education Ministers of 31 European countries, social partners and the European Commission. More recently, further actions were outlined in the Maastricht communiqué adopted in December 2004.

 

13.00

Opening of the Seminar
Mr Jari Jokinen, Counsellor Permanent Represenation of Finland to the European Union

 

13.10

Challenges and opportunities that European countries face with their VET systems and policies
Mr Tom Leney, International Research and Strategy QCA, United Kingdom.
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13.50

Copenhagen process and the Maastricht Communiqué: Realising the European Union Lisbon Goal
Ms Martina Ní Cheallaigh, European Commission
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14.20

Discussion

14.30

Coffee

14.50

Example of regional cooperation - Transparency and recognition of qualifications in the Nordic states
Mr Per Unckel, Secretary General, Nordic Council of Ministers
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15.10

European Qualifications Framework (EQF) - One step in implementing the Copenhagen process
Mr Petri Lempinen, The Finnish Confederation of Salaried Employees STTK, Finland.
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15.30

Bringing Copenhagen and the practitioners together - Case Leonardo da Vinci
Mr Mikko Nupponen, Centre for International Mobility CIMO, Finland.
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15.50

Closing statements

The seminar participants are kindly asked to be in time since there are only a limited number of places available to be filled in the arrival order!

16.00 WorldSkills 2005 Helsinki – How it was done
 

Organiser: Skills Finland
Language: English
Target group: VET policy-makers, education providers, staff and board members of national WorldSkills Organisations
Contact: Mr Matti Kauppinen, matti.kauppinen@skillsfinland.com

Seminar about how the WorldSkills Competition 2005 Helsinki was arranged, what is the role of vocational education providers and how the competition arrangements benefits the development of vocational education and training in Finland.

16.00

The National objectives of organising the WorldSkills Competition
Ms. Eija Alhojärvi, WorldSkills 2005 Helsinki Secretary General
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16.15

The role of vocational education providers in the competition arrangements
Mr. Hannu Immonen, Technical Manager, WSC 2005 Vice Secretary General

16.30

Using the WorldSkills Competition as a resource for providing study and career information & awareness
Mr Matti Kauppinen, School Coordinator
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16.45

Questions and discussion

 

17.00 Close
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 July 2007 )