Representatives from GDVT, VCCI, GIZ Thailand and Vietnam as well as LILAMA2 pose for a photo at the start of the course.

Sixteen representatives of the business and public sectors from Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam participated in the 3^rd Pilot Master Trainer Training in the ASEAN Region at LILAMA2 Technical & Technology College, now considered the Centre of Excellence for TVET in Vietnam.

The training course, which ran from 4 to 22 April, was jointly organized by the Project “Effective In-Company Vocational Training in the Mekong Region” and the “Programme Reform of TVET in Vietnam”, both implemented by GIZ. Cooperating partners are the General Directorate of Vocational Training (GDVT), the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) as well as the hosting vocational college LILAMA2.

The standard and curriculum were recently developed by 60 representatives of the business and public sectors of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. The development process of the In-Company Trainer (In-CT) and curriculum was guided by the Project “Effective In-Company Vocational Training in the Mekong Region” with professional advice from competent German TVET institutions like Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BiBB).

With the In-CT standard and curriculum proving their quality and applicability in satisfying the need of enterprises in all kinds of business sectors, Indonesia and Malaysia have now joined the programme.

This was the first Master Trainer training course for in-company trainers to be conducted in Vietnam and followed on from the 1^st and 2^nd Regional Master Trainer Training in Laos and the Philippines also undertaken using the new developed standard and curriculum for In-Company Trainers from the project “Effective In-Company Vocational Training in the Mekong Region”. The 41 Master Trainers in the region have now been trained by the project and In-Company Trainer Training courses have been effectively delivered by the Master Trainers in their own national language.

The training course focuses on the building of necessary competencies for future Master Trainers for In-Company Trainers and aims to improve the recognition of high-quality cooperative training between enterprises and TVET institutes. This training course will also serve to ensure acknowledgement of the standard and curriculum by the business and public sectors in participating ASEAN countries.

To achieve these goals, Dr. Le Van Hien used his opening speech to address the important role of LILAMA2 in developing the cooperative training model for Vietnam and its initiative in hosting this event.

In his opening speech, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cao Van Sam, Vice-General Director of GDVT of Vietnam, noted: “The cooperation between the business and public sectors of Vietnam is essential for a sustainable improvement in the quality of vocational training and qualified human resource development in enterprises”. Those topics were also underlined by Mrs. Bui Thi Ninh, Head of the Bureau of Employers Activities of VCCI and member of the steering committee for establishing the In-Company Trainer Standard in Vietnam.