11:15 pm - 12:45 pm (Salon A)
Plenary Session 2 The presenters will share best practices, mechanisms, and successes and challenges of collaboration as represented in their workplace/workforce education program. They will cover such topics as project team, external partnerships and resources, getting started, identifying needs, funding issues, program development and delivery, and measuring success. They will also be encouraged to discuss any unique process or activity that contributed to the success of the program.

Introduced/Facilitated by Ian Thorn

The Experience of Collaborative Efforts : Successes and Challenges

LIFT - Learning Initiatives For Tomorrow
Presented by Mark Roberts, Training Officer Human Resource Department, NL Hydro

USWA/Brunswick Mines Project
Brunswick Mining and Smelting

Presented by Blair Doucet

Metocean/Allendale Project
Presented by:
Curtis Lemieux, Production Manager, Metocean Data Systems
Cyril Meagher, General Manager, Allendale Electronics
Margan Dawson, Metocean Instructor
Joe Brown, Department of Education, NS
Judy Purcell, Department of Education, NS

12:45pm - 1:30pm
Lunch/Networking Opportunities
Cabot Club, Fairmont Newfoundland Hotel

Sponsored by:
Government of Nova Scotia
Government of Prince Edward Island

1:30pm - 3:00pm
Concurrent Workshops
Delegates are invited to select one workshop on Friday and one on Saturday.

(Plymouth Room)
1. The Labour Experience in Atlantic Canada: Literacy and Lifelong Learning
Introduced/Facilitated by Blair Doucet
The CEP Experience
Highlights of the CEPU National Literacy Project - our National Learning Needs Assessment and our Canada-wide Video depicting responses form our project's learners, union officers and employers. Hundreds of activists, learners and potential learners talking to each other about successes, continuing need and plans for future activity.

Presented by Ian Thorn, Coordinator, National Literacy Project, Communications, Energy and Paper Workers Union of Canada