“Civil Society Organisations reach out to the vulnerable, marginalised ethnic groups and the geographically isolated, and in that sense, they are teachers - communicators of learning, coaches, advisors - playing a fundamental role in supporting people. We need to include them when forming policies.” arises from the ETF study on the role of CSOs in human capital development in Albania, Jordan, Serbia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
On 18 October, we’ll discuss what is currently done for recognising the civil society organisations as critical actors in education and training policies, at country and international level; what kind of possibilities and challenges these organisations face, how they are engaged in governance; we will try to identify the ways of advocacy and networking to reach solid engagement in lifelong learning and skills development.
We'll have 4 main topics to discuss with you:
9:30 – 11:00 Session 1: The role of Civil Society Organisations in Human Capital Development and Lifelong Learning: strengths and challenges
11:30 –12:50 Session 2: The CSOs in policy design, implementation, and measuring impact
14:00 – 15:00 Session 3: Tools and instruments used by the CSOs, CSOs networks and CSOs agencies to achieve impact in Human Capital Development and Lifelong Learning
15:10 – 16:00 Session 4: Planning the future
This conference, co-organised by the European Training Foundation and the Lifelong Learning Platform, is open to the contributions from CSOs from partner countries and EU-wide networks including the European Association for the Education of Adults and Solidar Foundation, governmental representatives and EU institutions.
Interested to take part in the online discussion? We still have places available. Your 'like' or an e-mail to gladwbl@etf.europa.eu is enough for having you on-board.
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it's great to team up with the Lifelong Learning Platform-European Civil Society for Education on this event. We need to value non-formal and informal learning to attain the #SDG4 and, as the Transforming Education Summit of 16,-19 Sept 2022 stated, non-state actors play a key role in the transformation.
"Civil Society Organisations are important partner for the European Commission in the neighbouring countries" confirmed Ms Simone Rave from DG NEAR in the final session of the ETF-LLLP joint conference on the role of civil society organisations.
On Tuesday, 18.10, 12 countries from and beyond the European Union were present in the ETF and online to share their experience on what and how the civil society organisations engage to design and implement lifelong learning policies for children, youth, adults, and especially addressing different vulnerable groups of the society. Besides the concrete cases from the partner countries, we also heard about best practices of how civil society has directly influenced policy-making - examples shared by the European level network of civil society organisations: Lifelong Learning Platform and European Association of Education of Adults. We also had insights from the European Commission, Unicef and dvv international. A very big THANK YOU to all participants for the precious input to discussions!
#GLADnetwork thank you for the interesting event. It would be great to have a similar event related to the work of CSOs in Eastern Partnership Countries on human capital development.
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