BILT provides a platform to explore and identify new qualifications and competencies that are needed for modern, competitive TVET systems and attractive career paths. BILT’s overarching thematic area, ‘New Qualifications and Competencies in TVET’ is supported by four work streams: ‘Digitalization and TVET’, ‘Greening TVET’, ‘Entrepreneurship in TVET’, and ‘Migration and TVET’.

Through knowledge exchange, thematic project activities, and expert working groups, BILT supports implementation efforts by TVET stakeholders in UNESCO member states. TVET institutions from Europe, Africa, and Asia and the Pacific exchange experiences and share innovative practices through regional and inter-regional Bridging events. In parallel, BILT project partners explore the processes of identification, formalization and implementation of New Qualifications and Competencies with the objective to develop practically oriented guides for use by TVET stakeholders.

The results of the ongoing BILT activities will be disseminated during a BILT Learning Forum in 2021.

BILT began with a Kick-off Conference in July 2019, with the initial focus on the consolidation of the European cluster. In a series of workshops held in October-December 2019, TVET stakeholders presented their innovative examples in the BILT thematic areas and discussed their solutions to current TVET challenges. The phasing in of the inter-regional collaboration with Africa, and Asia and the Pacific was initiated during the BILT Launch on 2 December 2019 at UNESCO-UNEVOC in Bonn, Germany.