MED 5: Provisonal Programme

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Day one, 25 September 

 

Amman, Jordan National Institute for Training

 
09:00 – 16:00 Academic Supervision:Ghazi Gherairi, Professor, University of Tunis, TunisiaVéronique Perret, Professor, University of Paris IX Dauphine, Head ofthe « Stratégies, Espaces et Territoires » group of AIMS, FranceMohammad Taamneh, Professor, President of Jadara University, Jordan

Jean Desmazes, Professor, University of la Rochelle, France

Emmanuelle Moustier, Lecturer, IMPGT- Aix Marseille University, France

Aziza Zemrani, Professeur Assistant, University of Texas Pan American Edinburg, Texas USA

Harald Plamper, Special contributor to YML, Germany

  • Workshop 1: Public Policies and Sustainable Development
  • Workshop 2: Governance, Performance and Territorial Development
  • Workshop 3: Public Policies, Reforms and Development Strategies
  • Parallel special Young Mediterranean Leaders Initiative (YML) seminar

 

  • Regional Conference – Dead Sea, Jordan.

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17:00 – 18:00
  • Registration of participants (Location: Grand Ballroom foyer)
18:00 – 19:30
  • Conference Opening – Plenary session (Location: Grand Ballroom 1 and 2)

Speakers:

  • Atef Odeibat, Minister of Labour, Jordan
  • Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner for Education; Multilingualism and Youth (video message)
  • Ahmed Luqman, Director General, Arab Labour Organisation
  • Joanna Wronecka, Ambassador,  EU Delegation, Jordan
  • Pervenche Berès, Chair of Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, European Parliament
  • Rolet Loretan, Director General of International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS)
  • Madlen Serban, Director, European Training Foundation (ETF)

 
19.30-20.30 Launch of the Young Mediterranean Leaders initiative

  • Pervenche Berès, Chair of Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, European Parliament
  • Philippe Brunet, Head of Cabinet, Commissioner for Education, Multilingualism and Youth
  • Robert Fouchet, Geert Bouckaert, EGPA
  • Khaled Louhichi, League of Arab States
  • Madlen Serban, Director, ETF
  • Presentation of the Young Mediterranean Leaders Initiative and award of certificates
21:00 Gala dinner (Location: Sunset Arena)


Day two, 26 September

  • Regional Conference – Dead Sea, Jordan
9:00 – 11:00 Roundtable: “What does it mean to have a vision for effective skills development policies?” (Location: Grand Ballroom 1 and 2)

  • Chair: Antonio Silva Mendes, Director  LLL policies and programmes, DG EAC, European Commission
  • Presentation, Elena Carrero Perez, ETF
  • Country case: Nadera Al-Bakheet, E-TVET Council Secretariat, Ministry of Labour, Jordan
  • Country case: Mokhtar A. Jwaili, National Board Technical and Vocational Education, Libya
  • Country case: Egypt
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break (please note that a group photo will be made during coffee break)
11:30 – 13:00 Parallel working groups – presentation of papers

  • Workshop 1 – Management and reforms of Universities and Higher Education Institutions - Co-chaired by: Ghazi Gherairi, Professor, University of Tunis, Tunisia – Robert Fouchet, Professor, Director of IMPGT, Aix Marseille University, France
  • Workshop 2 – Skills Development in the Public Sector - Co-chaired by: Giovanni Tria, President of SSPA, Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”  – Harald Plamper, Senator e.h.,Germany
  • Workshop 3 – Training and Employability - Co-chaired by: Francois Lafarge, Centre of Expertise and Administrative Research, National School of Administration (ENA), France  – Claude Rochet, Professor, IMPGT – Aix Marseille University, France
13:00 – 14:00
  • Lunch (Location: Al Masharab Restaurant)
14.00-16.00 Roundtable: “Effectiveness and efficiency of skills development policies in the changing socio-economic context” (Location: Grand Ballroom 1 and 2)Chair: Borhene Chakroun, Chief TVET Section, UNESCO

  • Presentation, Ummuhan Bardak, ETF
  • Country case: Soubhi Abou Chahine, Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Lebanon
  • Country case: Algeria
  • Country case: Salah Al Zaroo, Ministry of Labour, Occupied Palestinian Territory
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30 Parallel working groups – presentation of papers

  • Workshop 4 – Public Management and Social Responsibility - Co-chaired by: Claude Rochet, Professor, IMPGT – Aix Marseille University, France – Chafika Agueznay, Professor, Director of the Research Centre in Administration and Development, ENA Rabat, Morocco
  • Workshop 5 – Governance - Co-chaired by: Geert Bouckaert, Professor Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium – Véronique Perret, Professor, University of Paris IX Dauphine, Head of the “Stratégies, Espaces et Territoires” group of AIMS, France
  • Workshop 6 – Pedagogy and teaching methods - Co-chaired by: Marco Meneguzzo, Professor, University Tor Vergata of Rome, Italy – Jean Desmazes, Professor, University of la Rochelle, France
  • Workshop 7 – Training and Employability (Subject to cancellation)

 
17:30 – 18:30 Plenary presentation on e-governance (Location: Grand Ballroom 1 and 2)Giovanni Tria, President of SSPA, Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”

Day three, 27 September 

  • Regional Conference – Dead Sea, Jordan

8:30 – 10:45 Roundtable: “New challenges for governance of skills development policies”   (Location: Grand Ballroom 1 and 2)

  • Chair: Ms Helene Bourgade, DG Devco, European Commission
  • Presentation, Gerard Mayen, ETF
  • Country case:  Abdelwahab Matar, Minister of VET and Employment, Tunisia
  • Country case:  Mohamed Slassi Sennou, General Confederation of Enterprises of Morocco (CGEM), Morocco
  • Regional case:  Refat Abdelhalim Alfaouri, Director General, Arab Administative Development Organisation (ARADO)
10:45 – 11:05 Coffee break
11:05 – 12:30 Parallel working groups – presentation of papers

  • Workshop 8 – Training Public Policies : Evaluation and feedback - Co-chaired by:  Marco Meneguzzo, Professor, University Tor Vergata of Rome, Italy – Edoardo Ongaro, Professor, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom
  • Workshop 9 – Skills Development in the Public Sector - Co-chaired by: Francois Lafarge, Centre of Expertise and Administrative Research, National School of Administration (ENA), France  – Dr. Radi Al Atoum, Director General NIT, Jordan
  • Workshop 10 – Public Management tools and practices (Subject to cancellation)
  • Meeting of Young Mediterranean Leaders with ETF and EGPA  (Location: Al Diwan 1 and 2)
12:45 – 13:45 Conference closure – Plenary session (Location: Grand Ballroom 1 and 2)

  • Chair: Antonio Silva Mendes, Director  LLL policies and programmes, DG EAC, European Commission

Closing remarks:

  • Antonio Silva Mendes, Director  LLL policies and programmes, DG EAC, European Commission
  • Representatives of Young Mediterranean Leaders
  • Atef Odeibat, Minister of Labour, Jordan
  • Khaled Louhichi, League of Arab States
  • Cecilia Attard-Pirotta, Deputy Secretary General in charge of Civil and Social Affairs, Union for the Mediterranean
  • Robert Fouchet, EGPA
  • Madlen Serban, ETF Director
13:45 Lunch (Location: Al Masharab Restaurant)