Annual SCEPSTA Conference 2007 held in Malta

The Staff Development Organisation in the Office of the Prime Minister recently organised this year’s International Annual SCEPSTA Conference in Malta.

This Conference brings together practitioners involved in Public Sector Training from a number of European Countries and is run by an executive committee that is currently chaired by Joanna Genovese, Director of the Staff Development Organisation (SDO) within the Office of the Prime Minister, who hosted this year’s conference, which is held in a different country every year. The participants, who were from eight different European countries, had the opportunity to share cross-cultural backgrounds and all deemed the conference a success, adding that they were taking back with them interesting information and a broadened outlook.

Opened by Mr Paul Zahra, Permanent Secretary Policy in the Office of the Prime Minister, the Conference included other distinguished speakers such as the Hon Regimantas Ciupaila, Lithuanian Vice-Minister for Home Affairs, Ms Sue Vella, CEO, ETC, Mr Malachy Vaughan from the Centre for Applied Learning, Northern Ireland, Ms Louise Agius, Head of Diversity, HSBC Bank Malta, Ms Riitta Sinkkila, Efeko, Training and Consultancy Company, Finnish Consulting Group, Professor Joseph Troisi, Director, European Centre of Gerontology, University of Malta, and Ms Claire Ebejer, Manager, The Eden Foundation.

The Conference theme was: “Mobility Age Diversity:  Is the workforce driving you MAD? Co-create solutions with SCEPSTA” and the topics of Mobility, Migration, and Diversity, which delved into Gender and Age, were discussed.

Participants were also exposed to Malta’s rich cultural heritage as part of the activities in the conference programme.