SEAMEO CELLL ATTENDS THE 14th GERMAN ADULT EDUCATION CONFERENCE AND VISITS THE UNESCO INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING

​By invitation of DVV International, Mr Le Huy Lam, SEAMEO CELLL Centre Director and Mr Nguyen Cong Hinh, Director-General, Continuing Education Department, Vietnam MOET, attended the The XIV German Adult Education Conference, which took place in Berlin, Germany, on 9-10 June 2016.  “Digital Participation for All” was chosen as the central motto of the Conference with the participation of 1500 participants from 40 countries and 900 German Community Learning Centers (“Volkshochschulen, VHS)” in what is known as Europe’s biggest Congress for Non-Formal Learning dedicated to sharing and learning. Mr Joachim Gauck, President of the Federal Republic of Germany, opened the conference.
SEAMEO CELLL Centre Director was invited to be one of the panelists for Forum 4 “ Digital-global-inclusive: More equitability through digitalisation” in which he discussed the impact of digitalisation on the participation of the Vietnamese people in current social issues.
Information about the event:
https://eventmobi.com/dvvcongress/
Previously, from the 5th to the 8th of June 2016, Mr Lam and Mr Hinh also visited and worked with various VHS (Volkshochschulen) as well as government education agencies in the cities of Berlin and Hannover.

On the 13th of June, the Vietnam Delegation was welcomed at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) in Hamburg, Germany, where they shared the experiences of Vietnam in the Project "Building a Learning Society" at a roundtable organised by UIL. Mr Lam also had a meeting with UIL's managerial staff to discuss planning details of the Project Towards a Lifelong Learning Agenda for Southeast Asian Countries, funded by UIL with SEAMEO CELLL being the implementation agency.
UIL link of the visit:
http://www.uil.unesco.org/lifelong-learning/building-learning-society-viet-nam
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