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This website aims to strengthen the links between education, training, and productive and decent work. It does this through sharing knowledge, information, tools and experiences from a range of international organizations and representatives of government, and employers’ and workers’ organizations. This website has been created through cooperation by the ILO, UNESCO, the OECD and the World Bank and in an effort to pool relevant knowledge on skills for employment.
1st Skills Challenge Innovation Call: Finding solutions to skills mismatch
The ILO is calling on individuals and organizations to share innovative ideas and solutions to address the skills mismatch challenge.
ILO: World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2020
This ILO report provides an overview of global and regional trends in employment, unemployment, labour force participation and productivity.
Skills for a greener future: a global view - Full report
The report presents an expanded qualitative analysis with evidence of good practice in developed and developing countries of all income levels and quantitative estimates of occupational skills needs in two policy scenarios by 2030.
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4th Global Report on Adult Learning and Education
This report explores participation in adult learning and education from the perspective of equity and inclusion.
A global standard for Lifelong Learning and worker engagement to support advanced manufacturing
In this paper the WEF establishes six guiding principles to support the creation of international standards for lifelong learning and workers engagement.
Launch of first Skills Challenge Innovation Call
The first challenge call aims to recognize and support the development of solutions to address the different forms and dimensions of skills mismatch.
World Social Report 2020: Inequality in a rapidly changing world
The report examines the impact of four megatrends on inequality: technological innovation, climate change, urbanization and international migration.
This report confirms that adults increasingly participate in apprenticeship training thanks to policy intervantions and measures that have removed barriers.
Tools for Quality Apprenticeships: A guide for enterprises
This guide aims to show how enterprises manage the various processes needed to deliver a succesful apprenticeship programme.
Skills for a greener future: Infographic
This fact sheet aims to raise awareness on the concept of green skills and on how the green transition could create million of jobs.
Skills for a greener future: Challenges and enabling factors to achieve a just transition.
This policy brief draws attention to the essential role of skills development policies in reaching a greener future.
ILO: Voices on skills, lifelong learning and jobs of the future (Video)
This video features stakeholders from around the world sharing their thoughts on skills, lifelong learning and the future of work.
ILO: Lifelong learning: Concepts, issues and actions
The paper introduces readers to the debates about the concept of lifelong learning, the issues that surround it and the actions that the ILO can take to address it.
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8 Jun 2020 to 12 Jun 2020 , Turin, Italy
The course will highlight the latest guidelines developed by the ILO with regard to measuring skills mismatches, while also emphas...
18 May 2020 to 22 May 2020 , Turin, Italy
In the reform of skills systems around the world, the important role of the social partners is increasingly recognized....
30 Mar 2020 to 3 Apr 2020 , Turin, Italy
Improving the labour market prospects and quality of work for those disadvantaged in the labour market is a key focus of the ILO. ...
9 Mar 2020 to 13 Mar 2020 , Turin, Italy
Application deadline for course: 9 March 2020....
20 Feb 2020 to 21 Feb 2020 , Maison de la paix, Geneva
Launch of the first global network of policy research on youth transitions...
29 Jan 2020 , ILO Headquarters, Geneva
The first challenge call aims to recognize and support the development of solutions to address the different forms and dimensions ...
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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.
Provides timely information about skills shortages, surpluses and mismatch across a wide range of countries.
Decent Jobs for Youth knowledge facility
The Decent Jobs for Youth knowledge facility is a digital platform of tools, publications, databases, thematic resources and more to support evidence-informed action on youth employment.
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...
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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.
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