The Vietnam National Institute of Educational Sciences (VNIES) and NISSEM jointly hosted a ground-breaking international conference on learning transversal competencies in ASEAN* countries and their neighbors. The day-long virtual event commemorated the 60^th anniversary of the founding of VNIES with a clear eye to the future. The three distinguished keynote speakers challenged over 200 participants from around the region and the globe to reflect on what ‘transversal competencies’ are and how to better put them into practice in schools and institutions of learning.  Follow-up exchanges featuring panel discussions moderated by NISSEM explored regional and national innovations in policy, research and practice, planning and implementation in Asia.

A volume of papers by the presenters of the Conference will be jointly published later in 2022.

The day’s sessions may be viewed in their entirety at the links below:

• Opening Remarks by VNIES Director General Le Anh Vinh
• Session 1: Rethinking 21st Century Skills (Keynote address by Prof. Kai-ming Cheng)
• Session 2: ASEAN’s Transversal Competencies Education: Policy, Research and Practice (Panel discussion)
• Session 3: Competence-based Reforms and Disciplinary Content: Some Lessons from Europe and the Americas (Keynote address by Prof. Kathryn Anderson-Levitt)
• Session 4: Twenty-first Century Skills: Aspirations, Planning and Implementation (Keynote address by Dr. Esther Care)
• Session 5: Teaching and Learning Transversal Skills in Vietnam (Presentation)
• Closing Remarks

*Association of Southeast Asian Nations: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam