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(last update: 6/10/2002)

Can knowledge sharing vouch for the development of skills and jobs management in the field of vocational training?

Are we now able to set up international communities of knowledge and interests creating added value for our organizations and trainers?

Can knowledge management provide correct answers to the optimization of production costs, and the improvement in the quality and rapidity of the services supplied?

I - Thursday 10 October 2002

13.00 - 13.45 Welcoming the participants
13.45 - 14.00 Welcoming and introduction by the moderator
   
14.00 - 14.20 Opening speech by Mr Yvan Bostyn
President of EVTA and General Administrator of VDAB

The objectives of the conference

   
14.20 - 14.45 Speech by Gordon Clark, European Commission
Head of Unit “Development of vocational training policy”
  “Implementation of the “Bruges Process” for increased co-operation in the field of vocational training with a view to improving its general standards and its good name in Europe” (Website)
   
14.45 - 15.00 Question time
   
15.00 - 15.15 Coffee break
   
15.15 - 16.00 Presentation by Mr. Dr Tony Mobbs (biography),
Principal Consultant of IBM’s ”Centre for Action Research in Organisational Complexity”, formerly Chairman of the International Dynamics Systems Development Method (DSDM)
 

“Strategic stakes of Knowledge Sharing in a globalization society. What impacts can this management tool have on vocational training organizations ?”

   
16.00 - 16.30 Question time
   
16.30 - 17.15 Presentation by Mr. Jean-Yves Prax
(biography | presentation in French),
Consultant, Professor at the Institut des Etudes Politiques de Paris, head of conferences at ENA (National School of Administration) in Paris, at the Scuola dell’Innovazione in Rome and at the Naseda Institute in Tokyo
  “Knowledge sharing and the trainer’s job : what implications are required to pass from the statute of the holder of knowledge to that of the transmitter of knowledge ?”
   
17.15 - 17.45 Question time
   
17.45 - 18.00 Conclusions by Mr. Luigi BOBBA (biography),
President of ENAIP and President of the ACLI
 

Future approaches to implement Knowledge Sharing in our organizations and in our network

   
19.00 Welcoming party by the City of Bruges
20.00 Dinner in Bruges

II - Friday 11 October 2002

9.30

Opening of the conference in Bruges and live transmission via satellite to the national auditoria of the 14 member organizations

   
9.30 - 9.35 Opening of the day by EVTA’s Vice-President, Mrs Ulla Engström
Director of Development at LERNIA, Sweden
   
9.35 - 9.45 Address by Mr Johan Van Rens
(presentation)

Director of CEDEFOP, European Center for the Development of Vocational Training
  The challenges of vocational training in a constantly changing world at the service of lifelong training
   
9.45 – 9.50 Presentation of the works and the panel by the moderator
   
9.50 - 10.20

Presentation by Mrs. Françoise Rossion from COMPAQ GLOBAL SERVICES
(biography | presentation in French)
(Practice Principal, Knowledge Collaborative Managements & Portals)

  The Exemplo case
(its origins, objectives, strengths ) and presentation of 2 success stories
by Frederik Geers
(presentation)
EXEMPLO National Coordinator in VDAB
   
10.20 - 10.40 Presentation by Mr Alain Buntinx from SIEMENS
(presentation),
Corporate Knowledge Manager, member of the Siemens Learning Valley
  Presentation of one case of Knowledge Sharing implemented within a traditional approach and the points in common with our Exemplo tool
   
10.40 - 11.00 Speech by Mr Jean Yves Prax
(biography | presentation in French),
Consultant, Professor at the Institut des Etudes Politiques de Paris, head of conferences at ENA (National School of Administration) in Paris, at the Scuola dell’Innovazione in Rome and at the Naseda Institute in Tokyo
  Presentation of very significant and practical cases of Knowledge Sharing and outline of the great possible directions of implementation in working organizations
   
11.00 - 11.10 Interlude
   
11.10 - 11.30 Presentation by Mr. Dr Tony Mobbs (biography),
Principal Consultant of IBM’s ”Centre for Action Research in Organisational Complexity”, formerly Chairman of the International Dynamics Systems Development Method (DSDM)
  Outlinking at present trends of implementation and application of Knowledge Sharing : setting up of informal communities within a formal environment and a narrative database system
   
11.30 - 12.45

A specific telephone connection is set up between the Conference in Bruges and the national conferences : each organization can then ask one question on the phone and will get one live answer from a member of the panel

   
12.45 - 13.00 Conclusions of the conference by Mr Yvan Bostyn, President of EVTA
  The challenges for a European vocational training network within lifelong learning
   
13.00 End of the part transmitted live via satellite
   
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
   
14.30 - 16.30 Open Extraordinary General Assembly with the Directors General of the member organizations of EVTA on the themes discussed during the two-day conference
   
 

At the same time, the participants in the national conferences will be invited to plan a discussion programme and will be able to virtually contact Mrs. Rossion and Mr Buntinx in Bruges on the Internet and with the software SAMETIME

   
 16.30 End of the Conference
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