Community of Practice

Skills and Lifelong Learning Forum

The Skills and Lifelong Learning Forum hosts Community of Practice (CoPs) on various topics. A CoP is a virtual learning community, where ILO staff and skills development practitioners come together and exchange ideas and tools to collectively enhance their expertise and create solutions for various skills challenges on the ground.The Skills and Lifelong Learning Forum complements the ILO Skills and Lifelong Learning Knowledge Sharing Platfor..

Research paper

Digitalization of national TVET and skills systems: Harnessing technology to support Lifelong Learning

The digital transition of TVET and skill systems goes far beyond taking training products and services online. A holistic and coordinated approach to digitalisation should be taken that looks at each high-level function of a national skills system, and its potential for digitalisation. This report describes and updates the picture of digital vocational education and training, providing an overview of the issues surrounding digitalisation across t..

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A Resource Guide for Sector Skills Bodies

Sector Skills Bodies (SSBs) aim to increase and strengthen the involvement of industry in the way skill systems are governed and operate. This Resource Guide has been developed for those organisations and individuals involved in the establishment of sector skills bodies. It covers the issues that need to be addressed when establishing and operating tripartite SSBs, examines the different mandates and structures that have been adopted internationa..

The new ILO Skills and Lifelong Learning Knowledge Sharing Platform help users with different knowledge needs (e.g. policy advisors, employers, training institutions, academics) find the information and analysis they want. For each “topic”, information is organized as a pyramid of knowledge products, starting from a base of statistics and comprehensive research reports to national skills policies and concise policy alternatives at the apex.

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Project

Skills Innovation Facility

Skills systems are confronted by the need to respond to increasingly dynamic and fluid labour market and societal conditions. Climate change, technology, demographic shifts, migration and globalization are causing increasing disruption to the world of work, while making skills development increasingly complex, fluid and unpredictable. Addressing contemporary skills challenges requires more dynamic and integrated skills and lifelong learning ecosystems.

Recognizing the importance of innovation for the renewed calls for lifelong learning, the ILO has initiated the development of a Skills Innovation Facility. The Facility identifies and tests promising and innovative ideas and solutions that address the major skills challenges of today and of tomorrow.

Publication

Rapid STED: A practical guide

This new guide provides advice on implementing an updated approach to STED that has been piloted in a number of countries over the last two years in collaboration with national partners. It aims to speed the process, to deepen collaboration, to build capacity among national and sector partners, to improve their skills strategies, and to help move more effectively from diagnosis of skills needs to implementation of the skills development responses required.

It differs from full STED in that it does not rely on primary survey research, and in that the process centres on a substantial Technical and Policy Foresight workshop involving industry, national and sector partners, and providers of education and training. Its focus on collaboration and consultation with partners throughout the process is more comprehensive than that set out for full STED in the original STED Practical Guide.

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ILO Toolkit for Quality Apprenticeships, Volume 2: Guide for Practitioners

This Toolkit combines diverse national good practices with ILO experience, it includes over 125 tools and guides from more than 40 countries and institutions worldwide. Each tool can be adapted to fit national and local contexts and applied in different countries. Besides apprenticeship programmes, this Toolkit can also be used for other TVET programmes. For example, it contains tools for identifying skills needs, preparing occupational profiles and curricula, and developing instructional and learning materials and post-training transitions and evaluations.

Blogs

Blog: Preparing The Future of Work We Want

Blog: Bridging the skills gap for informal economy workers – How can skills and lifelong learning help mitigate the consequences of the crises?

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Making Lifelong Learning a Reality: A Handbook

Published on: 20 Jun 2022

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Comparing vocational education and training qualifications

Published on: 07 Jun 2022

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Organisational determinants of training

Published on: 06 Jun 2022

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Events

MOOC on Recognition of Prior Learning

Are you interested in knowing more about RPL? This free MOOC is for you! The ITCILO and ILO’s Employment Department, Skills and Employability Branch join forces to organize the first edition of this free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Recognition of prior learning (RPL) is a process of identifying, documenting, assessing and certifying formal, non-formal and informal learning outcomes against standards used in formal education and traini..

Date: 31 Jan - 18 Mar 2022
Location: Online
Event Type: Course

Big data and the future of work

The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, the Labour Market Information Council of Canada and the ILO are glad to invite you to a research webinar on “Big data and the future of work” organized as part of the EU funded project “Building partnerships on the future of work ”.This project is being undertaken by the ILO and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and aims at developing new evidence around some specif..

Date: 03 Feb 2022
Location: Online
Event Type: Workshop

Entrepreneurship competence in vocational education and training

The workshop ‘Entrepreneurship competence in vocational education and training’ will attract European VET stakeholders to: discuss the research methodology piloted by Cedefop’s research team in two EU countries (Italy and Latvia); share first results on how entrepreneurship competence is embedded in VET, including policy implementation challenges; discuss tools and methods that can help policy makers, social partners and training provi..

Date: 17 - 18 Feb 2022
Location: Online
Event Type: Workshop

Measuring Skills Mismatches

Skills mismatching is a common concern of policymakers, employers and workers. It is a recurring theme in vocational education and skills development, with many policy initiatives launched to address various forms of the phenomenon. Where evidence-based skills are concerned, policymaking statistics on various forms of skill mismatching are needed. Building on its long experience in delivering training on skills and labour-market analysis, the Int..

Date: 28 Feb - 25 Mar 2022
Location: Online
Event Type: Course

E-Learning course: Skills development for social inclusion

In this course participants learn how to contribute to the development of inclusive education and training systems and programmes that are capable of overcoming the range of existing barriers for disadvantaged groups and individuals. This fully online course is organized in close collaboration with the ILO’s Employment Department, Skills and Employability Branch and Humanity & Inclusion – Handicap International and addresses those that ar..

Skills and Lifelong Learning Forum

Digitalization of national TVET and skills systems: Harnessing technology to support Lifelong Learning

A Resource Guide for Sector Skills Bodies

Featured tools and resources

Skills Innovation Facility

Rapid STED: A practical guide

ILO Toolkit for Quality Apprenticeships, Volume 2: Guide for Practitioners

Blogs

Blog: Preparing The Future of Work We Want

Blog: Bridging the skills gap for informal economy workers – How can skills and lifelong learning help mitigate the consequences of the crises?

Latest knowledge products

Making Lifelong Learning a Reality: A Handbook

Comparing vocational education and training qualifications

Organisational determinants of training

Events

MOOC on Recognition of Prior Learning

Big data and the future of work

Entrepreneurship competence in vocational education and training

Measuring Skills Mismatches

E-Learning course: Skills development for social inclusion

Focus on

Anticipating needs and

matching skills

Apprenticeships

Migrant workers

Skills policies

and strategies

Twitter by ‎@ILO_SKILLS

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Skills and Lifelong Learning Forum

Digitalization of national TVET and skills systems: Harnessing technology to support Lifelong Learning

A Resource Guide for Sector Skills Bodies

Featured tools and resources

Skills Innovation Facility

Rapid STED: A practical guide

ILO Toolkit for Quality Apprenticeships, Volume 2: Guide for Practitioners

Blogs

Blog: Preparing The Future of Work We Want

Blog: Bridging the skills gap for informal economy workers – How can skills and lifelong learning help mitigate the consequences of the crises?

Latest knowledge products

Making Lifelong Learning a Reality: A Handbook

Comparing vocational education and training qualifications

Organisational determinants of training

Events

MOOC on Recognition of Prior Learning

Big data and the future of work

Entrepreneurship competence in vocational education and training

Measuring Skills Mismatches

E-Learning course: Skills development for social inclusion

Focus on

Anticipating needs and matching skills

Apprenticeships

Migrant workers

Skills policies and strategies

Twitter by ‎@ILO_SKILLS

Anticipating needs and

matching skills

Skills policies

and strategies