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| 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
Download presentation (PowerPoint)
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
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| 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
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| 13.00 |
European Union Cooperation in Developing Vocational
Education and Training: The Copenhagen Process |
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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.
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| 13.00 |
Opening of the Seminar
Mr Jari Jokinen, Counsellor Permanent Represenation
of Finland to the European Union
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| 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.
Download presentation (PowerPoint)
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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
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| 14.30 |
Coffee
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| 14.50 |
Example of regional cooperation - Transparency and recognition of
qualifications in the Nordic states
Mr Per Unckel, Secretary General, Nordic
Council of Ministers
Download presentation (PowerPoint)
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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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presentation (PowerPoint)
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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!
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| 16.00 |
WorldSkills 2005 Helsinki – How it was
done |
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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.
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| 16.00 |
The National objectives of organising the WorldSkills Competition
Ms. Eija
Alhojärvi, WorldSkills 2005 Helsinki Secretary General
Download presentation (PowerPoint)
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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
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| 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
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| 17.00 |
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