This year's Annual Development Cooperation Conference takes a look at vocational education and training in different countries, sheds light on specific challenges and shows how vocational education and training can create local prospects for people.
Annual Swiss Development Cooperation Conference SDC/SECO 2017
viernes, 23.06.2017 – viernes, 23.06.2017
Öffentlicher Anlass; Konferenz Versammlung
Lugar: Lausanne, SwissTech Convention Center EPFL
Vocational education can make a big difference in reducing poverty, helping people acquire the skills they need to be economically active and take part in society, giving them prospects and access to decent pay and improved incomes.
Basic education and vocational education and training strengthen economies in an innovative way. There are many people – especially young people – who face unemployment or underemployment. At the same time companies urgently need skilled workers. Switzerland has extensive know-how which it can use to provide assistance in the education sector. It is no accident that vocational education and training has long been a pillar of Swiss development cooperation. A strong culture of entrepreneurship is another of the country's transferable strengths.
Switzerland works to promote basic education and vocational education and training courses which are accessible to all and enable lifelong learning.
