• ILO: Migrant Workers' Skills Portability in Africa at Regional Economic Community and Continental Level

  The report provides policy pointers and reflects on the feasibility of regional or continental international qualifications frameworks.

• OECD: What characterises upper secondary vocational education and training?

  While often neglected in the past, an increasing number of countries are recognising that high-quality vocational education and training can make a major contribution to economic competitiveness.

• UNESCO-UNEVOC: Work-based Learning as a Pathway to Competence-based Education

  This book provides a rich collection of research and practice perspectives around central topics in the field of work-based learning (WBL).

• OECD: Policy Responses to New Forms of Work

  This report provides a snapshot of the policy actions being taken by OECD, EU and G20 countries in response to growing diversity in forms of employment.

• ILO: New technologies and the transition to formality: The trend towards e-formality

  This paper focuses on how technologies can enhance the impact of institutional public policies addressing informality.

• ILO/IOE joint publication: Tools for quality apprenticeships: A guide for enterprises

  This report aims to show how enterprises manage the various processes which need to be undertaken to deliver a successful apprenticeship programme.

• Cedefop: Preventing low skills through lifelong learning

  Flexible learning pathways to keep youth at risk and low-skilled adults in education or work.

• Lifelong learning and skills development: Interview with Dr. Paul Ryan (Video)

  In this video Dr Ryan discusses how to ensure quality lifelong learning and the challenges ahead.

• OECD: Getting skills right: Future-ready adult learning systems

  This report presents the results from the Adult Learning (PAL) Dashboard and highlights in which area new actions are needed.

• Skills for the future: Learning to learn through technology is the new skills visa.

  New ILO Blog: Can we use innovation to steer lifelong learning? 

• ILO/G20 Training Strategy: A Skilled Workforce for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth

• OECD: Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Lives: A Strategic Approach to Skills Policies

• World Bank: Stepping Up Skills for More Jobs and Higher Productivity

• UNESCO: Youth and Skills: Putting Education to Work

• Global challenges impacting the future world of work: What skills will the jobs of tomorrow require? (Video)

• Quality apprenticeships are part of the solution to the challenge of youth unemployment and preparing the workforce for the fast changing skills demands of the labour market. Learn more

   

• How do we ensure that workers have the right skills for the jobs of today and tomorrow? (Video)

• ILO STED programme targets sectors for growth through increasing skills in developing countries

   

Summer Academy on the Future of Work

12 Aug 2019 to 23 Aug 2019 , Turin, Italy

For its 100th anniversary, the ILO is inviting young people from all over the world for a Summer School and Global Debate on the F...

UNEVOC TVET Leadership Programme

24 Jun 2019 to 5 Jul 2019 , Bonn, Germany

The programme builds the capacity of TVET professionals to become effective change agents in their institutions and countries....

Academy on Skills Development

24 Jun 2019 to 5 Jul 2019 , Turin, Italy

Responding to the current and future needs in the labour market, the Academy provides a range of learning opportunities in the fie...

What role for community lifelong learning centres?

29 May 2019 , Brussels, Belgium

From a lifelong perspective, tackling early leaving from education and training (ELET) is an ongoing process, which requires a mul...

Public Employment Programmes : Designing for sustainable development

26 May 2019 to 30 May 2019 , Turin, Italy

The course addresses the achievement of economic and social development objectives through appropriate investment choices in Publi...

Promoting quality apprenticeships in enterprises

6 May 2019 to 10 May 2019 , Turin, Italy

The course aims to promote more effective pathways for youth in the labour market through quality apprenticeships....

• SKILLS Panorama 

  Skills Panorama, powered by CEDEFOP, turns labour market data into accurate and timely intelligence to offer new insights into skill needs in the European Union.

• ILO and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

  Interactive visual allows you to choose a goal and learn how the ILO's mandate to promote social justice is helping to achieve each of the Sustainable Development Goals.

• OECD Skills for Jobs Database

  Provides timely information about skills shortages, surpluses and mismatch across a wide range of countries.

   

• Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification

  STED provides guidance for the integration of skills development in sectoral policies. The programme is designed to support growth and decent employ­ment creation in sectors that have the potential to increase exports and contribute to economic diversification.

• ILO-Norway Partnership on Skills Development

  Skills development is an essential prerequisite for youth employment and sustainable development. Moreover, skills are important to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.Yet limited access...

• Data on skills and work
  WISE database

• International Training Centre

  The Centre is the training arm of the International Labour Organization (ILO). It provides training in subjects that further the ILO's pursuit of decent work for all.

• Inter-American Centre for Knowledge Development in Vocational Training

  ILO/Cinterfor is a service of the International Labour Organization (ILO), created in 1963 and established in Montevideo, Uruguay.

• Virtual Tour: Skills for Employment