• 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.

• Apprenticeships for Adults

  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.

• Understanding the non-marketable benefits of apprenticeships in South African enterprises

  Details the findings of research on the non-financial or non-marketable returns from apprenticeship training.

• 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.

• 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

   

• SKILL-UP Programme: Upgrading skills for the changing world of work. A joint programme of the ILO and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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

   

Skills for social inclusion

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. ...

Enhancing soft skills for sustainable jobs: the role of employment services

9 Mar 2020 to 13 Mar 2020 , Turin, Italy

Application deadline for course: 9 March 2020.

Further details to follow....

Launch of first Skills Challenge Innovation Call

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 ...

Workshop on comparing VET qualifications

28 Nov 2019 to 28 Nov 2019 , Thessaloniki, Greece

The workshop will build on and explore the interim findings of the Cedefop project 'Comparing vocational education and training qu...

The effects of digitalisation on the quality of working life

26 Nov 2019 to 26 Nov 2019 , Helsinki, Finland

Eurofound, in cooperation with the Finnish Ministries of Economic Affairs and Employment and Social Affairs and Health as well as ...

Transition to formal economy - A Global Knowledge Sharing Forum

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...

• 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.

   

• 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...

• 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