Building lifelong learning systems: skills for green and inclusive societies in the digital era
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Experts from many international, regional and national agencies generously share their views, experiences and findings on skills, helping policy-makers among other stakeholders to understand the linkages between education, training and the world of work, and how to integrate skills into national development planning to promote employment and economic growth.
Lifelong learning
There is a critical need for a greater overall investment in education and training, particularly in developing countries. Education and training investments should be closely linked to economic and employment growth strategies and programmes. Responsibility should be shared between the government (primary responsibility), enterprises, the social partners, and the individual. To make lifelong learning for all a reality, countries will need to make major reforms of their vocational and education and training systems. School-to-work schemes for young people should integrate education with workplace learning. Training systems need to become more flexible and responsive to rapidly changing skill requirements. Reforms should also focus on how learning can be facilitated, not just on training for specific occupational categories.
Event organised by the ETF and UNESCO with the collaboration of the ILO, EBRD and UNICEF
This conference will take place online over the course of a whole week. The theme is system change for lifelong learning: how can education and training systems adapt to the challenges of global change and green and digital futures and guarantee the right to education for all.
It will bring together actors at all levels in the development of education and training systems: policy-makers, practitioners, employers, international organisations and bilateral and multilateral cooperation partners, experts, researchers, youth representatives, trade unions and civil society organisations.
The conference has a twin objective:
- to create a forum for joint reflection on national and international experiences in transforming education and training systems into lifelong learning systems;
- to confirm priorities for future cooperation in the area of human capital development.
It will draw on the experience of different actors who design, implement, innovate, and benefit from the outcomes of transformative change in education.
It will take stock of progress in and impediments to system change for lifelong learning.
More information about the event on this page.