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Thematic Areas: Youth Employment | Greening TVET | Access, Equity & Quality | TVET in a Digital World | Other Themes
Our Key Programmes & Projects: i-hubs: Skills for Innovation Hubs | YEM: Youth Employment in the Mediterranean | BILT: Bridging Innovation and Learning in TVET | UNEVOC TVET Leadership Programme | WYSD: World Youth Skills Day
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Promoting skills for work and life
UNESCO-UNEVOC is committed to supporting UNESCO Member States in ensuring access to quality skills development by:
We further promote information exchange and peer-learning through our TVET-related research, publications and various online communities, including the TVeT Forum and the UNEVOC Network Portal.
The Education 2030 Agenda calls on Member States to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, with the aim of overcoming challenges posed by rapid technological developments, sustained high levels of youth unemployment, demographic changes and a growing demand for green skills.
In an effort to support TVET institutions in addressing these challenges and under the overarching vision contained in the UNESCO Strategy for TVET (2016–2021), UNESCO-UNEVOC developed its Medium Term Strategy for the period 2021-2023 (MTS-III). The Strategy focuses on strengthening TVET capacities and cooperation in Member States to enable quality education in a lifelong learning perspective and to ensure a better response from education and training to combat climate change and ensure adaptation to its impacts.
UNESCO-UNEVOC recognizes the need for Member States to develop TVET institutions that are attuned to lifelong learning principles and aligned with dynamic labour markets. With the Medium-Term Strategy for 2021-2023 (MTS-III), UNESCO-UNEVOC sets out the programme areas, objectives and activities that will enable TVET institutions to meet these demands and provide quality skills training for a sustainable future of work.
The connection between TVET and the world of work will be reframed in the post-COVID-19 era. More than ever before, there is an urgent need to build stronger links and promote collaboration with industry to ensure that TVET remains relevant and demand-driven. By focusing on anticipated futures and preparing for emerging trends, MTS-III enables TVET institutions to position themselves in these realities and swiftly adapt their strategies to respond.
The Medium-Term Strategy for 2021-2023 (MTS-III) sets out how UNESCO-UNEVOC will support TVET institutions to meet the demands of dynamic labour markets and provide quality skills training for a sustainable future of work. MTS-III focuses on developi ...
Biennial Report 2018-2019
This Biennial Report gives a comprehensive overview of UNESCO-UNEVOC's activities in technical and vocational education and training over the biennium 2018-2019.
UNESCO’s Strategy for TVET 2016-2021 was officially launched on World Youth Skills Day in Bonn on 15 July 2016. The Strategy takes into account the Education 2030 Framework for Action (FAA) for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 4 which is aimed at mobilizing all countries and partners around SDG4 and its targets, and proposes ways of implementing, coordinating, financing and monitoring SDG4.
The Strategy supports the efforts of UNESCO Member States to enhance the relevance of their TVET systems to equip all youth and adults with the skills required for employment, decent work, entrepreneurship and lifelong learning, and to contribute to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as a whole.
It also proposes indicative strategies which countries may wish to draw upon in developing contextualized plans, taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels of development, and respecting national policies and priorities.
The Strategy sets out key policy areas and actions for the period 2016 to 2021. It contributes to UNESCO’s strategic objectives and is in full alignment with SDG4 to “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning ...
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
The UNEVOC Network is UNESCO’s global network for institutions specialized in technical and vocational education and training (TVET). The Network is comprised of more than 250 UNEVOC Centres in 166 Member States across 5 regions: