With the motive of enhancing operational capacity of non-formal educational institutions through the study of the effective model of community learning centres in Japan, on November 2014, deriving support from The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) Secretariat and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology, Japan (MEXT), MOET Vietnam and SEAMEO CELLL successfully organized the workshop “KOMINKAN – The Successful Japanese Model of CLCs and Lessons to be Learned” with Prof. Dr. Teuchi Akitoshi, University of Tsukuba, Japan as a keynote speaker.

On the basis of assessing the effectiveness and proceeding the application from the aforementioned workshop, SEAMEO, MEXT and Tsukuba University reached a consensus on appointing Prof. Dr. Teuchi Akitoshi , Chair of Doctoral Program in Education and an expert at Japanese CLC operation, to pay a visit to Vietnam and assist the organization of a training workshop on “Curriculum Development for CLCs” on 12/11/2015. The workshop provided the participants with relevant knowledge and offered them the opportunity to practice constructing a curriculum under the direction of Prof. Dr. Teuchi Akitoshi.

Attending the workshop were 60 managers of CLCs, Vietnam Association for Learning Promotion from the southern provinces of Vietnam.