1. ETF CORPORATE CONFERENCE 2013
TORINO PROCESS: MOVING SKILLS FORWARD
Torino Incontra, Torino
8 – 9 May 2013
Draft Agenda (version 02 May 2013)

2. Day one, 8 May
12:00 – 12:30 Registration of participants
12:30 – 14:00 Buffet lunch
14:00 – 14:45
Plenary Introduction and Welcome
Chair: Madlen Serban, Director, European Training Foundation (ETF)
Opening Speeches:
Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner for Education, Culture,
Multilingualism and Youth, European Commission (Video message)
Antonio Silva Mendes, Director DG EAC, European Commission
Skills relevance in World Development
Key note speech:
Roberto Peccei, Vice-President, Club of Rome
14:45 – 15:00
How to move skills forward: the results of the Torino Process
Peter Greenwood, Head of Evidence-Based Policy Making
Department, ETF
15:00 – 15:15
Moving skills forward. A minister’s perspective:
Gordan Maras, Minister, Ministry for Entrepreneurship and Trade,
Croatia
15:15 – 16:00
Moving skills forward through evidence based policy analysis -
experience of the countries and the process
Morocco: Jamal Eddine El Aloua, Secretary General, Ministry of
Employment and Vocational Training
Tajikistan: Mavjuda Akhmedova, Chief Specialist, Presidential
Administration of the Republic of Tajikistan
Ukraine: Viktoriia Karbisheva, Deputy Director of the Ministry of
Education, Science, Youth and Sport of Ukraine
Croatia: Darko Belovic, Head of Department for Vocational Education
and Adult Education, Ministry of Science, Education and Sports
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:45
How is the world addressing the skills challenge and answering global
needs?
Moderator: Alessandra Molz,, ILO
Mike Campbell, Independent expert
Valeria Sakharova, Deputy director, Centre for International
cooperation for Education Development, Russian Federation
Ian Whitman, Independent expert
Sara Parkin, Independent expert nominated by European Parliament
17:45 – 18:00
Conclusions of Day 1
Madlen Serban, Director, ETF
18:15 – 21:00 Cocktail and Concert at Teatro Regio, Turin

3. Day two, 9 May
9:00 – 9:30
Introduction to the thematic areas: what progress has been made since
the 2011 Torino Declaration? Results and Issues to move skills forward
Anastasia Fetsi, Head of Thematic Expertise Department, ETF
9:30 – 11:00
What are the benefits for the HRD sector? Examples and practice
Vision and Innovation in VET
o Mervi Jansson, Head of Learning, Omnia, Finland
o Arijana Nikolic Vucinic, Deputy Minister of Labour and Social
Welfare, Montenegro
Governance and Finance
o Linda Dhima, Head of Sector, National Vet Agency, Albania
o TBC
External efficiency–skills for competitiveness:
o Eduardo J. Padron, President, Miami Dade College, USA
o Aboubakr Abdeen Badawi, HRD Specialist for TVET, Egypt
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30
Quality of VET
o Franz Reithuber, Principal, HTL Steyr, Austria
o Riadh Othmani, National center for Training of Trainers and
Training engineering, Tunisia
Skills for inclusive growth
o Zakir Batuhan Aydagul, Coordinator of Education Reform
Initiative, Turkey
o Lida Kita, ETF
12:30 – 13:00 First conclusions on priorities for moving forward – discussion
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:15
Agenda setting for future work - How do we move forward? What makes
change possible? Principles and actions.
Chair: Madlen Serban, Director, ETF
Christian Lettmayr, Acting Director, Cedefop
Jee Peng Tan, Education Advisor, World Bank
Borhene Chakroun, Head of VET, UNESCO
Donatella Gobbi, DG Devco, European Commission
15:15 – 15:45
Moving skills forward: Ministers’ perspectives
Chair: Madlen Serban, Director, ETF
Predrag Bošković, Minister, Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare,
Montenegro
Mahmadamin Mahmadaminov, Minister, Ministry of Labour and Social
Protection, Republic of Tajikistan
15:45 – 16:15
Reflection on the priorities identified and actions for moving forward
Pervenche Berès, Chair of Committee on Employment and Social
Affairs, European Parliament
Des O’Loughlin, Department of Education and Skills, Republic of
Ireland

4. 16:15 – 16:30
Closing session
Presentation of the declaration Namig Mammadov, ETF Governing
Board Observer
Closing message Madlen Serban, Director, ETF
16:30 Cocktail