About this website
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.
ILO: Time to Act for SDG 8: Integrating Decent Work, Sustained Growth and Environmental Integrity
This report presents progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 8, analyses interlinkages with other SDGs and provides policy recommendations.
ILO Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work
The Declaration was adopted at the 108th International Labour Conference, which marked the 100th anniversary of the ILO. It looks at the major challenges and opportunities for the future of work and provides guidance for dealing with these pressing issues.
ILO: Lifelong learning and the future of work: Challenges and opportunities (Video)
This video aims to raise awareness on the concept of lifelong learning. It also provides insights on to whom does lifelong learning apply as well as on the role governments, employers and workers play in supporting lifelong learning goals.
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OECD Skills Strategy 2019: Skills to shape a better future
The document provides a strategic approach for ensuring that people have the skills to thrive in a complex and rapidly changing world.
UN International Youth Day 2019: Transforming education
The theme of International Youth Day 2019 highlights efforts to make education (and training) more relevant, equitable and inclusive for all youth.
IFAD: Creating opportunities for rural youth
This report attempts attempts to provide analysis than can inform policies, programmes and investments to promote a rural transformation that is inclusive of youth.
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.
ILO: Quality apprenticeships: Addressing skills mismatch and youth unemployment
This policy brief presents an overview of quality apprenticeships promoted by the ILO through outlining their key characteristics, benefits and challenges.
OECD: What is happening to middle skills workers?
The report examines what workers are doing who in the past would have been employed in middle-skill jobs.
The report examines the balancing act that individuals and countries face in making productive investments in a wide range of skills and groups in Sub-Saharan Africa.
ILO Blog: Why indigenous peoples' knowledge matters to a green future of work
Unique indigenous skill-sets as a means of addressing climate change
The report provides policy pointers and reflects on the feasibility of regional or continental international qualifications frameworks.
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25 Nov 2019 to 29 Nov 2019 , Turin, Italy
The Employment Policy Department and ITCILO are organizing the third edition of the Global Knowledge Sharing Forum on Transition t...
23 Oct 2019 to 26 Oct 2019 , Ponta Delgada, Portugal
European Forum of Technical and Vocational Education and Training Annual Conference...
1 Oct 2019 to 3 Oct 2019 , Medellín, Colombia
This year’s ICLC will discuss effective lifelong learning policies and practices that lead to inclusive, safe, resilient and susta...
23 Sep 2019 to 27 Sep 2019 , Turin, Italy
This training course will examine methodologies, institutional arrangements and models for analyzing the skills and competences ne...
23 Aug 2019 to 24 Aug 2019 , Kazan, Russia
WorldSkills Conference will discuss the megatrends and the solutions that skills offer to these megatrends....
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...
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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.
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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