UNESCO-UNEVOC and UNESCO Regional Bureau, Beirut, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Lebanon (General Directorate for Vocational and Technical Education, GDVTE, and Center for Educational Research and Development, CERD), organized a three-day Regional Expert Meeting (Beirut, 19–21 November 2013) as a platform for networking and dialogue involving regional UNEVOC centres, TVET institutions, and other relevant stakeholders.

It was the last of five regional follow-ups to the Shanghai Consensus on developing and sharing policy and Promising Practices on youth and skills and greening TVET.

Attended by 35 TVET experts representing UNEVOC Centres, international, regional and national organizations, the three-day meeting provided participants the opportunity to share their experiences by highlighting success stories on the introduction of entrepreneurship education (EPE) and ICT in TVET in particular.