BIBB's fifth partners meeting in Seoul
Hans-Joachim Kissling
Translated by: Sarah Zimmer, English Language Service
BIBB's first meeting with its partner institutes in Southeast Asia (China/CIVTE, South Korea/KRIVET, Singapore/IAL and Vietnam/NIVT) was held in Seoul, South Korea, from 12 - 14 October 2011. This was BIBB's fifth partners meeting and was prepared in cooperation with KRIVET. BIBB established this form of contact with international partners in 2006 when it hosted a first such meeting in Bonn. These meetings have been conducted at regional level since 2010.
The possibility for bilateral talks was widely used.
All of the representatives of partner institutes attending the meeting in Seoul welcomed BIBB's initiative for holding this type of information- and experience-sharing meeting which, in response to Singapore's proposal, revolved around the overarching theme "Evidence-based policy research". This topic was also the subject of individual presentations. It is to be worked on in the framework of a joint dialogue in the future. The meeting additionally offered an opportunity 0 which participants made extensive use of in Seoul 0 for bilateral exchanges of information and for strengthening existing work contacts and establishing new ones. These bilateral talks on common issues were an important part of the meeting, alongside discussions of current VET policy developments in the individual countries.
BIBB's partners from the IAL in Singapore agreed to host the next partners meeting in Southeast Asia in 18 months' time in Singapore.
