Programme
Tuesday 2 December
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14:00 Beginning of Registration
18:00 Briefing of Presenters and Moderators; PLUTO Room
20:00 – 21:00 Hotel Helia, Gallery
Welcome drink offered by
Ms Katalin Bogyay, State Secretary for International Affairs, Ministry of Education and Culture,
Mr József Hámori, President of the Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO
and
Ms Ágnes Kovács Bíró, Secretary-General of the Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO
Wednesday 3 December
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9:00 – 11:00 Opening Plenary
Mr István Hiller, Minister of Education and Culture of Hungary
Mr Zarko Obradović, Minister of Education, Serbia
Mr Troy Justesen, Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education, USA
Ms Ana Luiza Machado, Deputy Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO
Setting up the Conference Bureau: Election of Chair, Vice Chairs of the Conference as well as Chair and Members of the Drafting Group Briefing on Conference Objectives and Procedure
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee / tea
11:30 – 13:00 Plenary
Keynote Address: Ms Rita Süssmuth, President, German Adult Education Association (DVV)
Presentation of Regional Synthesis Report by Ms Helen Keogh, Ireland
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:30 Parallel Working Groups 1
Discussion and reflection of key issues, trends and key challenges
Group 1 (MERCURE Room): Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia & H., Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Spain
Group 2 (HELIA Conference Room): Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary
Group 3 (URANUS Room): Israel, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Portugal, Romania
Group 4 (PANORAMA Room): Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, FYRO Macedonia, Turkey, UK, USA
As a reflection and continuation of issues raised in the keynote speech and the regional synthesis report, the discussions focused on responses of adult learning and education to the socio – economic challenges in Europe, trends and obstacles in the development of adult learning and education.
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee / tea
17:00 – 18:00 Plenary: Short Reports from Parallel Working Groups
Output: Preliminary synthesis of key issues, trends and challenges for the first part of the Draft Outcome Document
19:00 – 24:00 Boat trip to cultural event
Cultural programme at the Institute for Culture and Art; greeting address by Ms Erika Borbáth, Director of the Hungarian Institute of Culture and Art
Dinner on board, offered by the Ministry of Education and Culture
21:30 First Meeting of the Drafting Group
Thursday 4 December
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9:30 – 11:00 Plenary
Round Table 1: Policy Frameworks, Governance and Financing of Adult Learning and Education
Chair: Mr Anders Falk, Chair of the UIL Governing Board (Sweden)
The EU Action Plan (Ms Marta Ferreira-Lourenço, Head of Unit Policy for Adult Education and Grundtvig programme, DG Education and Culture, European Commission)
Adult Education Collaboration in the Nordic Countries (Mr Gard Titlestad, Head of Department of Education, Research and Labour Affairs Nordic Council of Ministers
Financing Lifelong Learning (Mr Dieter Timmermann, Chairperson, Expert Commission on Financing LLL, Germany)
Respondent: Mr Abdussamet Arslan, Deputy Undersecretary, Ministry of Education, Turkey
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee / tea
11:30 – 13:00 Plenary
Round Table 2: Inclusion and participation in and through Adult Learning and Education
Chair: Ms Anikó Kálmán, Secretary General of the Hungarian National University Lifelong Learning Association MELLearN (Hungary)
Obstacles to and Motives for Adult Education (Mr Thomas Mayr, Director, Economy Institute of Educational Research, Austria)
Adult Learners’ Week (Mr Alan Tuckett, Director, National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education, UK)
Active Labour Market Policies (Ms Vesna Hrvoj Šic, Director of the Directorate for Secondary Education, Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Croatia)
Inclusion and Participation of Immigrants Lacking Formal Education – The Case of Immigrants from Ethiopia (Ms Riva Aviad, Director of the Division of Adult Education, Ministry of Education, Israel)
Aspects of Prison Education (Mr Marc De Maeyer, Coordinator, European Network on Prison Education)
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:00 Parallel Thematic Panels
Panel A (MERCURE Room): Quality of adult learning and education
Moderator: Ms Vida Mohorčič-Spolar, Director, Slovenian Institute for Adult Education (Slovenia)
Promoting Quality in Vocational Adult Training (Ms Hanne Shapiro, Danish Technological Institute, Denmark)
English as a Second Language (Ms Cheryl Keenan, Director, Adult Education and Literacy, Department of Education, USA)
New Professional Qualification Standard (Ms Talvi Märja, Estonia)
Panel B (PANORAMA Room): Literacy, Basic Skills and Key Competencies
Moderator: Mr Ricardas Totairaitis, Head of Continuing Education Division, Ministry of Education and Science (Lithuania)
Effective Literacy Work in Ireland (Ms Inez Bailey, National Adult Literacy Agency, Ireland)
Literacy Work in Belgium (Ms Michèle Minne, Ministère de la Communauté Française, Belgium)
Adult Education for Roma (Ms Araceli Silva del Pino, Roma Women Association, Spain)
Panel C (HELIA Conference Room): Monitoring and Evaluation of Adult Learning and Education
Moderator: Mr André Schläfli, Director, Swiss Federation for Adult Learning (Switzerland)
Measuring and Monitoring Lifelong Learning (Mr Marc Lachance, Canadian Council on Learning, Canada)
Recognition, Validation and Accreditation of Non-formal and Informal Learning (Ms Marie-Odile Paulet, National Commission of UNESCO, France)
Monitoring and Evaluation of ALE in Finland (Ms Eeva-Inkeri Sirelius, Secretary General, Finnish Adult Education Association, Finland)
15:15 – 17:30 Parallel Working Groups 2
Discussion and reflection of policy recommendations, strategies, benchmarks
Group 1 (MERCURE Room): Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia & H., Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Spain
Group 2 (HELIA Conference Room): Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary
Group 3 (URANUS Room): Israel, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Portugal, Romania
Group 4 (PANORAMA Room): Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, FYRO Macedonia, Turkey, UK, USA
17:30 – 18:00 Coffee / tea
18:00 – 19:00 Plenary
Short Reports from Parallel Working Groups
Output: Preliminary synthesis of recommendations, strategies and benchmarks for the second part of the Draft Outcome Document
20:00 – 21:00 (Helia Conference Room): Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
21:00 Second Meeting of the Drafting Group
Friday 5 December
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9:30 – 10:30 Plenary
Presentation of draft outcome document
Key issues and challenges
Recommendations, strategies and benchmarks
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee / tea
11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Working Groups 3
Group Discussions of the Draft Outcome Document
Group 1 (MERCURE Room): Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia & H., Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Spain
Group 2 (HELIA Conference Room): Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary
Group 3 (URANUS Room): Israel, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Portugal, Romania
Group 4 (PANORAMA Room): Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, FYRO Macedonia, Turkey, UK, USA
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:30 Third Meeting of the Drafting Group
16:30 – 17:30 Plenary
Presentation and adoption of final outcome document
Closing ceremony
20:00 Dinner hosted by UNESCO