​On invitation from the University of Tsukuba, SEAMEO CELLL Director and Deputy director went on a mission to Japan from 14 to 18 of March 2016.
SEAMEO CELLL delegation was met by Dr Mariko Sato, Director of CRICED (Center for Research on International Cooperation in Education Development) , Dr. Isoda Masami and Dr.Teuchi Akitoshi at the CRICED Office, University of Tsukuba, where they also gave presentations on SEAMEO CELLL: Promoting LLL in ASEAN Countries and Community Learning Centres in Vietnam: Development and Challenges to a small audience of interested professors and students.

The delegation was then kindly guided by Professor Dr.Teuchi Akitoshi and Dr Kazuaki Tani, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, for a study visit to Musashino Place, Kokubunji Honda Community Center and Musashino Honcho Community Center. At these places, Mr Lam and Ms Chi observed the facilities in action and met with the management for information exchange.
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The University of Tsukuba also kindly offers a grant to two SEAMEO CELLL staff members to visit and do research at its facilities for a duration of two months each, starting later this year of 2016.

​08 March 2016, SEAMEO CELLL convened a meeting to build strategic alliances and mobilize expertise and experience from stakeholders in lifelong learning, propose national level activities to strengthen the development and implementation of policies and plans towards a learning society, and plan possible actions to support Southeast Asian countries’ lifelong learning agenda. The project on developing a lifelong learning agenda for Southeast Asian countries results from a proposal by SEAMEO CELLL to UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning in 2015 that aims to build a common framework for understanding and developing lifelong learning in the region.

​Participating the meeting were representatives of DVV International Regional Office (based in Lao PDR), Indonesia Ministry of Education and Culture, National Institute for Lifelong Education (Republic of Korea), SEAMEO CELLL, SEAMEO Secretariat, UNESCO Vietnam, UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education, and Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training.


Through the meeting’s brainstorming and discussion sessions, the participants identified key issues and challenges in a variety of aspects of lifelong learning in the region and considered different courses of actions by the stakeholders in the project. 


The meeting ended conclusively and  fruitfully, with all participants agreeing upon an action plan which outlines all essential components of the project as well as its detailed timeframe, budget arrangement, and expected contributions from participating parties.

​On 7-8 March 2016, SEAMEO CELLL organized the workshop “Fundraising and Proposal Writing”. Attending the workshop were 28 participants from different organisations, and institutions including the Department of Education and Training, Universities, High Schools, Education Centres, NGOs, private companies.

Mr Uwe Gartenschalaeger, Regional Director, DVV International Regional Office South and Southeast Asia, and Mr Nazaret Nazaretyan, Coordinator and Course trainner of DVV International were the workshop trainers. DVV is the largest Institute for Adult Education in Germany and is a success story of effective fundraising. Government funding accounts for only 13.9% of its annual operating budget, the rest being from fundraising activities. The trainers shared practical knowledge, and experience in conducting fundraising activities as well as writing grant proposals.
Through the workshop, the participants gained a better understanding of fundraising strategies, method of fundraising, structure of a proposal and how to write a well-formed proposal.
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