(DRAFT AGENDA)

7 June

11:30 – 13:00

Registration

13:00 – 13:45

Opening Session

Madlen Serban, ETF Director

Welcoming remarks:

Chiara Appendino, Mayor of Turin
Angelino Alfano, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italy (60^th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome)
Jordi Curell, Director, Directorate-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission

13:45 – 15:00

Setting the Context

Arman Toskanbaev, Director of the Youth Business Association, Kazakhstan
Osman Yildiz, General Secretary of HAK-IS Trade Union Confederation, Turkey
Milan Solaja, CEO of ICT cluster, Serbia
Olena Kolesnikova, Deputy General Director, Federation of Metallurgists of Ukraine
James Calleja, Director CEDEFOP

15:00 – 15:30

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Jafar Javan, Director, United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC)
Borhene Chakroun, chief of section of Youth, Literacy and Skills Development, Division for Policies and Lifelong Learning Systems, UNESCO
Donatella Gobbi, Unit B3, Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development, EC

15:30 – 16:30

Presentation of Torino Process 4th Round Findings

Nigar Ismayilzade, Head of Initial Vocational Education And Training Division Ministry
of Education of Azerbaijan
Anastasia Fetsi, Head of Operations, ETF
Manuela Prina, Project Leader, ETF

16:30 – 17:00

Coffee

17:00 – 18:30

Progress, Achievements and Challenges (in parallel workshops)

Workshop A	How can VET policies become more forward looking while maintaining a balance between quick fix and long-term options?
Workshop B	How can policies deliver impactful results for citizens?
Workshop C	How can VET contribute to economic growth and competitiveness?
Workshop D	How can VET policies address social cohesion?
Workshop E	How can VET policies be more accountable and transparent?

20:30 – 23:00

Dinner (NH Lingotto)

* Speakers to be confirmed

8 June

9:15 – 11:30	Entrepreneurship and Innovation in VET: Market of Ideas (Bar Area) Presentation of innovative projects by young people from the ETF partner countries. This session also features reporting back from the workshops.
11:30 – 11:50	New Skills Agenda for Europe– An Agenda for a Changing World! Keynote speaker: Marianne Thyssen, European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility The Commissioner will stress the importance of the new Skills Agenda as a driver of change for skills development and an enabler for innovation through VET.
11:50 – 13:00	Innovation and VET Panellists: Markku Markkula, President, Committee of the Regions Damir Šehović, Education Minister of Montenegro Roberto Saracco, EIT Digital Node Director Italy, European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) Eli Eisenberg, ORT Network and member of National TVET Committee, Israel Laura Orestano, CEO, SocialFare, Italy Q&A
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:00	Public Policies that Work Panellists: Enrico Giovannini, Professor of Economics and Finance, Rome University “Tor Vergata”, former OECD Chief Statistician and former Italian Minister of Labour Aleksandre Jejelava, Minister of Education and Science, Georgia Fathallah Sijilmassi, Secretary General, Union for the Mediterranean Madlen Serban, ETF Director Q&A
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee
15:30 – 16:30	Responding to Challenges What we aim here is to engage into a debate that can lead to a new impetus in VET reforms. The panel group will take the discussion from the beginning and will reflect on how challenges are faced within the country context. Challenges are set to become the area for interaction.Panellists: Pavlo Khobzey, Deputy Minister of Education and Science, Ukraine Abdusalom Mirzozoda, Deputy Minister of Labour. Migration and Employment of Population, Tajikistan Mustafa Hilmi Çolakoğlu, Deputy Undersecretary Ministry of National Education, Turkey Bernard Brunet, Head of Unit, Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, European Commission Q&A
16:30 – 17:00	Closing Michel Servoz, Director-General of Directorate-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion , European Commission Madlen Serban, ETF Director