PEACE ACCORDS AND POLITICAL STABILITY OFFER ETF WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY IN LEBANON

After years of conflict, the re-emergence of relative political stability in Lebanon following the 2008 Doha agreement between rival factions and the election of a coalition government in November 2009 presents the EU with an opportunity to engage in a key country of the Mediterranean region.

The ETF has been fast to respond and is:

working with the Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) to design a national qualification framework (NQF);
acting to incorporate entrepreneurship as a key competence within the curriculum across general, vocational & technical and tertiary education;
supporting the MEHE on career guidance counselling
enhancing the involvement of the country in ETF regional projects such as the Euro-Mediterranean Charter for Enterprise and the development of e-learning within the VET system and lifelong learning;
and launching the Torino Process and education and business study which will analyse the efficiency of VET systems and foster evidence-based policy making.

“It’s still early days but the process is underway”, says ETF Country Manager for Lebanon Aziz Jaouani.

Moroccan-born, Aziz has wide experience of working both within the VET sector and in business. That is of particular use in Lebanon where business has continued to thrive despite the hardships of war.