Academy on Skills Development
The International Training Centre of the ILO and the ILO Skills and Employability Programme, in cooperation with a variety of international development agencies, is offering a two weeks international Academy on Skills Development. The purpose of the Academy is to stimulate learning and knowledge exchange on policies, challenges and options for building effective, responsive and inclusive skills development systems and to analyze some of the latest trends in Skills Development and TVET. The programme reflects the principles and recommendations of the ILO-G20 Training Strategy “A Skilled Workforce for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth”.
Overall objective
The overall objective of this Academy is to strengthen participants’ capacities to improve the relevance, effectiveness and effi ciency of their skills development systems, policies and related programmes to respond to the needs of the individual, the society and the economy.
This Academy particularly aims at participants from developing and middle-income countries.
Specific objectives
By the end of the programme, participants will have:
- reviewed approaches to developing and improving skills development policies, TVET systems and components of these systems;
- strengthened their capacities to formulate comprehensive skills development policies and strategies that support a virtuous cycle of training, productivity, decent work and employment growth;
- analysed opportunities for improving skills development and TVET policies, system and programmes in general and in their own context;
- identified new trends and good practices in skills development from different countries and institutions around the world.
International Training Centre of the ILO
Programme on Employment Policies and Skills Development (EPSD)
Viale Maestri del Lavoro, 10 - 10127 Turin, Italy
Tel : +39-011 693 6409 / 6522 / 6561
Fax: +39-011 639 1921
Academy on Skills Development Team
[email protected]
