Keynote Speakers

Dr. Christian Dorninger - Thursday, 9:00

Function:
Head of department "Information Technologies and e-learning at school ", Federal Ministry of Education of Austria, Dep.II/8

Title of presentation:
E-learning approaches in VET as part of knowledge society and lifelong learning strategies

Abstract Curriculum Vitae:
Christian Dorninger, was born in May 1954. Study of theoretical Physics and teaching Math and Science; graduate 1979. Teacher at a technical college, member of a local school authority;

Ministry of Education since 1988; school inspector of central technical colleges; development of curricula in technical colleges;

Project management of science and IT/e-learning projects for Austrian Schools since 2000.

Dr. Muriel Dunbar - Thursday 9:00

Function:
Incoming Director of the European Training Foundation, Torino, Italy

Title of Presentation:
The importance of Continuing to develop Technical and Vocational Education and Training in a Greater Europe

Abstract Curriculum Vitae:
Deputy Director of the British Council in Indonesia, has been chosen to be the new Director of the European Training Foundation, the EU agency based in Turin, Italy.

Following a public recruitment procedure, the ETF's Governing Board chose Dr. Dunbar from a short list of five candidates put forward by the European Commission.She will succeed Peter de Rooij, whose mandate as Director comes to an end on 30 June 2004 and who has managed the ETF since it was established in 1994.

Dr. Dunbar, who is British, has spent her entire 30-year career working in the field of vocational education and training. She is currently senior consultant in education and training at the British Council in Indonesia working on a variety of education reform projects, and has advised on many donor-funded projects in vocational education and training in developing and transition countries.

Before moving onto the international scene, Dr. Dunbar was Assistant Director at the Scottish Qualifications Authority (formerly the Scottish Vocational Education Council).
Dr. Dunbar holds a Master's degree and a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Sheffield.

Dr. David Fretwell - Wednesday 10:00

Function:
Lead Employment and Training Specialist, Human Development Sector Europe and Central Asia, The World Bank

Title of Presentation:
The Knowledge Economy: Core Competencies and Implications for Individuals and Vocational Education

Abstract Curriculum Vitae:
Dr. Fretwell has a special interest in human capital development with a special focus on education, training, and labor/employment issues. His experience is at the local state/provincial, national, and international levels in development and implementation of education, training, employment policy and programs. He oined the World Bank in 1988 and works in the Education, Labor, and Private Sector Development sectors.

Dr. Fretwell has long-term work experience assignments in Canada and the U.S. Saudi Arabia, Africa, and most recently in Europe and Central Asia, where he I was assigned for two and one-half years at the World Bank Human Resource Hub in Hungary, and more recently at the European Union European Training Foundation in Italy. He has carried out short-term assignments in about 30 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, with a recent emphasis in the transition economies in Europe.

In parallel with is project design and supervision work at the Bank he has led a number of regional and international initiatives in Europe and Central Asia on issues related to education, training, employment, and labor issues. He recently completed a Bank financed study and publication on adult and continuing education, managed the World Bank's global conference on Lifelong Learning, completed a study and paper on "Public Policy on Career Development in Transition and Middle Income Countries", and a publication on "Mitigating the Social Impact of Privatizatioin and Economic Restructuring".

Uni. Prof. Dr. Peter Kampits - Wednesday 10:00

Function:
Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education(Vienna University),Austria

Title of Presentation:
Europe is more than the EU

Abstract Curriculum Vitae:

• 1942 Born in Vienna
• 1960 - 65 Studies at the University of Vienna (Philosophy, Psychology, History)
• 1965 Ph.D.
• 1966/67 Studies at the Sorbonne (Paris)
• 1968 Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna
• 1970/71 Visiting Professor at the University of Alaska (USA)
• 1974 Associated Professor at the University of Vienna
• 1977 Full Professor at the University of Vienna1980 Visiting Professor at the University of Istanbul
• 1987 - 91 Head of the Department of Philosophy in Vienna
• 1988 - 95 Director of the Wissenschaftliche Landesakademie (Krems / NÖ)
• 1988 - 90 President of the Austrian Society of Philosophy
• 1986 - 92 Member of the Austrian Commission of UNESCO
• since 1990 Member of the Board of the International Wittgenstein Society
• since 1993 Member of the European Academy of Arts and Science
• 1993 Visiting Professor at the University of Banska Bystrica (Slovakia)
• 1994 Visiting Professor at the University of Zagreb (Croatia)
• 1998 Scientific Organization of the 21st International Wittgenstein Symposium / Kirchberg am Wechsel
• June 2001 Head of the Department of Philosophy in Vienna
• May 2004 Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education
• Main fields of teaching and research: Contemporary philosophy, philosophy of language, Applied Ethics.(Medical Ethics)

Dipl. Ing. Dr. h.c. Josef Riegler - Friday 9:00

Function:
President of the Ecosocial Forum of Europe.

Title of Presentation:
The Global Marshall Plan for a world-wide Eco Social Market Economy - A European Initiative

Abstract Curriculum Vitae:
Born in Judenburg on 1 November 1938

• 1960 to 1965 University of Agricultural Sciences in Vienna, graduation (Diplomingenieur = Master's degree in engineering).
• 1971 to 1983 Director of the Farmers' Association
• 1975 to 1983 Member of the Parliament
• 1983 to 1987 Member of the Styrian Provincial Government
• January 1987 to April 1989 Federal Minister for Agriculture and Forestry.
• April 1989 to July 1991 Vice-Chancellor and ÖVP (Austrian People's Party) Chairman.
• Since 1991 President of Ökosoziales Forum Österreich (Austrian Ecosocial Forum / Austrian Society for Agricultural and Forestry Policy).

Ali Ahmed Sayed - Friday 9:00

Function:
Counselor to the Minister of Education for International Cooperation and Director of Mubarak-Kohl Initiative

Title of Presentation:
The Role of VET in Poverty Reduction

Lessons learned: Introduction of cooperative training (Dual) training system as part of VET reform in Egypt in cooperation with the Federal Republic of Germany.

Abstract Curriculum Vitae:
Mr. Ali Sayed was born in 1940. Since 1993 he is managing the MKI programme successfully. He is attending and positively contributing in many national, regional and international conferences, workshops, seminars related to VET. He represents Egypt in the Advisory Forum of the ETF in Turin.

He is member of several boards in Egypt (related to VET). A short time lecturer at Inwent (institution in Germany) and makes many official simultaneous, consecutive and written translation services in Egypt, Germany Syria and for several German institutions.

His qualifications are:

• B.SC. engineering degree, Cairo University (1964)
• Master degree, Cairo University (1968)
• Public Relation Diploma, Cairo University (1981)
• Translation Diploma, Cairo University (1983)
• Economy in German, 2 year study, Goethe Institute and IHK Germany)