Forty TVET experts from 17 countries, including Canada, Australia, China, Thailand and Vietnam, discussed ways in which sustainability can be integrated into TVET teacher education and capacity building programmes in the Asia-Pacific region at the meeting “International Consultation on Education for Sustainable Development: TVET Teacher Education towards Sustainability”. This international experts meeting was held on 19-24 August 2007 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

The meeting was organised by UNESCO-UNEVOC with the support of the Office of the Vocational Education Commission (OVEC), Ministry of Education, Thailand, and in partnership with InWEnt (Bonn), the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) (Bangkok) and the UNESCO Chair on Reorienting Teacher Education to Address Sustainability, York University (Toronto).