The Forum was attended by more than 60 participants, including representatives of businesses, vocational education institutions, central and local authorities, and representatives of trade unions.
The Forum included a panel discussion on Public-Private Partnership for the Development of Vocational Education. The main topics of the discussion were strategic directions of vocational education reform, legislative support for public-private partnerships, international assistance, business cooperation with vocational education and the role of business in the development of PPPs.
The speakers of the panel discussion were:
Iryna Shumik, Director General of the Directorate of Vocational Education of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine;
Dmytro Zavhorodniy, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine for Digital Development, Digital Transformation and Digitalisation;
Olha Koval, Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Head of the Subcommittee on Vocational and Professional Higher Education of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Education, Science and Innovation;
Viktor Shutkevych, Deputy Director of the Swiss Cooperation Office of the Embassy of Switzerland in Ukraine;
Olena Kolesnikova, Head of the Sustainable Development Committee of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine, Head of the Sectoral Council of the Federation of Metallurgists of Ukraine;
Oleksiy Rakov, CEO of Geberit Trading LLC.
Participants also discussed best practices in public-private partnerships, including successful cases and ways to strengthen cooperation between business, government and institutions. Anatolii Hubarev, representative of Kermi in Ukraine, Viktor Petrenko, leading engineer at Herz Ukraine, Vasyl Andreyev, Chair of the Ukrainian Construction Workers’ Union, and representatives of education shared their experience: Oleksandr Sayun, Cherkasy Higher Vocational School of Construction Technologies, Olha Havryshkiv, Deputy Director of Odesa Vocational Education Centre, EdUP project experts, and others.
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The Public-Private Partnership to Improved Plumbing Education (EdUP) is a project of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, in partnership with Geberit Trading LLC, implemented by Swisscontact Foundation for Technical Cooperation and supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
