UNEVOC Centre

Technical and Vocational Education and

Training for Sustainable Development

For building green cities, skilled workers with the right competencies are the needed. TVET is the way for people to develop such competencies. Accordingly, in combination with a conference on green cities, an international symposium on TVET for sustainable development took place on the 25^th and 26^th of November in Magdeburg.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the department of vocational education and human resources development the UNESCO UNEVOC Centre “TVET for Sustainable Development” hosted an international experts´ meeting on October 10th- 11th 2014. More than 30 experts from TVET research and practice came together at the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation under the...

The Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs of Saxony-Anhalt and the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (as a part of the UNEVOC Centre "TVET for Sustainable Development") hold the Vocational Education Action Day for Sustainable Development together this year again. The topic of this year Action Day is Mobility. Here you can find the agenda.  

An international workshop on “Green Jobs and Climate Change” had been organized in Magdeburg by the international cooperation team of the Institute for Vocational Education and Human Resource Management, with the support of the...

From 12-16 March 2012, an Experts' Meeting on Fostering Capacity Building in TVET and Skills Development in Afghanistan was held at the UNEVOC International Centre in Bonn, Germany. The meeting, which gave   room for discussions and provided input speeches, was attended by senior officials from Government of Afghanistan as well as TVET experts from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Germany. One day was organized at the...