Technological and societal developments and growing concerns about climate change, environmental degradation and scarcity of resources are changing the nature of work. These developments demand that TVET develop skills and provide knowledge to ease transitions to green economies and societies.
In light of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), TVET underpins many of the proposed goals and the achievement of sustainable development. TVET is crucial in reorienting society to adopt the low-carbon mentality so essential to addressing climate change. It is also impossible to think of making gains in poverty reduction, job creation and decent work provision without transforming TVET. For example, Goals 4, 6 and 8 of the SDGs are directly related to TVET, with many of the targets capable of being supported by a well-designed TVET system and targeted skills-development interventions.
UNESCO-UNEVOC contributes to the fulfilment and monitoring of the SDGs by promoting a whole-institutional approach to greening of TVET institutions. In the context of TVET, this approach involves setting up an integrated learning development path for all in the institutions of training and learning, addressing the needs to build adequate consciousness, knowledge, skills and competencies oriented to sustainable development. It also facilitates the delivery of skills that are required in the changing labour market and allows institutions to meet the volume of jobs. It enables institutions to closely follow developments in sectors, enterprises and communities which are adapting climate change actions and shifting into a more sustainable path.
In the context of implementing UNESCO’s Global Action Programme on ESD (GAP in ESD), UNESCO-UNEVOC promotes the implementation of Greening TVET. It has a broad aim of supporting institutional policies and capacities; transforming learning and training environments that can impact the immediate communities of institutions; and addressing the capacity needs of institutional leaders, principals, training managers, teachers and trainers. The greening of TVET institutions process invites actors of training and learning to engage in an incremental and systematic process of developing the knowledge, skills and attitudes that leads to formal qualifications, life-long learning and decent work.
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 | 28 November 2016Supporting rural youth to acquire green skills and realise their ideasAccess to education and training that allows rural youth to have decent work opportunities is still limited in Paraguay. The Fundacion Paraguaya uses unique and innovative approaches to meet learning needs of rural youth. UNEVOC Centres from Latin America met on the San Francisco campus of the Fundación Paraguaya to discuss the use of ICT in the provision of TVET in rural contexts. ( more) |
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 | 18 November 2016Education and training central in climate change agreementsThe 22nd Conference of Parties (COP22) organized by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Marrakesh, Morocco, reaffirmed Member States’ commitment to the COP 21 Paris Agreement. UNESCO, UNESCO-UNEVOC and partners contributed to the discourse that meant to highlight concrete actions to implement the agreement. ( more) |
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 | 23 December 2015First Global Forum on Green Economy Learning in Paris, FranceFrom 16 to 18 December 2015, the 1st Global Forum on Green Economy Learning held in Paris, France, convened approximately 70 policy-makers, development partners, and representatives from education and training institutions, NGOs and business associations to identify opportunities for improving green economy learning. ( more) |
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 | 16 December 2015UNESCO-UNEVOC at COP21UNESCO-UNEVOC contributed to a number of events at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) that took place in Paris from 30 November to 12 December. ( more) |
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 | 27 October 2015Virtual Conference: Greening TVET in the context of climate change policy developmentsFrom 2 to 13 November, you will have the chance to participate in our next virtual conference on greening TVET in the context of global climate change policy developments. This online conference will be moderated by Dr Nick Sofroniou, Principal Research Fellow at Institute for Employment Research of the University of Warwick and an expert in green skills development. ( more) |
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 | 1 October 2015Adoption of the Sustainable Development GoalsOn Friday 25 September 2015, the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit adopted the Sustainable Development Goals which seek to realise inclusive and equitable economic, social and environmental sustainable development. ( more) |
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 | 28 September 2015UNESCO-UNEVOC participates in UKFIETFrom 15 to 17 September 2015, 550 participants met in London, the United Kingdom, for the UKFIET International Conference on Education and Development. ( more) |
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 | 28 September 2015First Global Forum on Green Economy Learning From the 16 to 18 December 2015, the 1st Global Forum on Green Economy Learning will bring together policy-makers, development partners, as well as representatives from education and training institutions, NGOs and business associations to identify opportunities for improving green economy learning. ( more) |
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 | 17 September 2015Virtual Conference: UNESCO’s future TVET strategy From 28 September to 3 October, you will have the chance to participate in our next virtual conference on UNESCO’s future strategy for TVET (2016-2021). This online conference will be moderated by Mike Campbell, an expert in the fields of skills, labour markets and the economy. ( more) |
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 | 15 July 2015Celebrate World Youth Skills Day on 15 July!Join the United Nations in New York and Bonn in celebrating the first-ever World Youth Skills Day! The goal of this celebration is to achieve better socio-economic conditions for today’s youth and to address issues of unemployment. ( more) |
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 | 22 December 2014Skills Forum at the Asian Development BankThe Asian Development Bank held its Fourth Annual International Skills Development Forum in Manila. UNESCO-UNEVOC joined the event with UNEVOC Network members from the region. ( more) |
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 | 16 December 2014GreenTech experts meet in BerlinWhat is the impact of green technologies? Experts discussed the influence of green technology on the economy, politics, employment and education at "GreenTech made in Germany" in Berlin on 27 November 2014. ( more) |
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 | 16 December 2014Green Cities – Green Industries – Green JobsMore and more people live in urban areas. Cities have to find solutions to challenges such as rising traffic and increasing waste. UNEVOC Network member GIZ and the city of Magdeburg invited partners from around the world to discuss challenges and opportunities of green cities and industries, and what this means for the creation of green jobs. ( more) |
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 | 19 November 2014End of the Decade of Education for Sustainable DevelopmentGreen skills are a priority for aligning TVET with the post-2015 development agenda. UNESCO-UNEVOC and the Inter-Agency Working Group on Greening Skills and TVET ran a discussion on the Role of greening TVET on 11 November 2014 at the closing of the Decade on Education for Sustainable development in Nagoya, Japan. ( more) |
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 | 27 October 2014Happy birthday United NationsThe City of Bonn held a celebration on Market Square to commemorate the United Nations’ anniversary on Saturday, 25 October 2014. UNESCO-UNEVOC joined the festivities with an information booth, a quiz and a drawing contest. ( more) |
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 | 14 October 2014Skills for Work and Life Post-2015As a follow-up to regional consultations in 2013, UNESCO-UNEVOC is organizing a global forum to be held from 14 to 16 October at the UN Campus in Bonn, Germany. The forum seeks to contribute to the ongoing debate, enriching the thought processes behind the positioning of TVET in the post-2015 agenda and it will utilize cross-regional networking and partnership as platforms to create synergy in the contribution of TVET in the post-2015 agenda.
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 | 17 September 2014Water Hyacinth Project in YabaTech UNEVOC CentreThe Water Hyacinth Project in YabaTech was initiated by the Coordinator of YabaTech UNEVOC Centre, Dr (Mrs.) Funmi Doherty in 2012. She is mentoring students through her water hyacinth project, to turn the invasive plant into a money maker, training them on how to make different eco-friendly hand craft, biogas and animal feed from the plant. She teaches students on how to harvest the plant, dry it and weave into products that can be sold by the students. ( more) |
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 | 17 February 2014UNESCO-UNEVOC participates in Green Skills Forum 2014 Organized by OECD and CEDEFOP, the second Green Skills Forum held in Paris, France, on 14 February 2014 brought brought together over 90 experts, researchers, economists, government advisers, employment and policy analysts and social partners to explore the links between skills and knowledge needs and inclusive green growth ( more) |
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12 February 2014Green Skills Forum 2014: Green Skills and Innovation for Inclusive Growth The 2nd Green Skills Forum will have a special focus on the links between skills and knowledge needs and inclusive green growth. Experts in innovation, employability and skills development policies will draw lessons from work conducted by Cedefop, the OECD and other organisations in this area. The discussions will help identify the obstacles and challenges lying ahead for the development of skills, education and training policies. The Forum’s outcomes will contribute to inform new work to be conducted to address the transition of labour markets to greener employment growth. ( more) |
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 | 3 December 2013Regional Forum on Status of TVET in the SADC RegionBased on the findings of a regional study conducted by UNESCO on the Status of TVET in the SADC Region, representatives of the SADC Member States convened in Stellenbosch, South Africa from 25 to 29 November 2013 to discuss the progress of actions undertaken to reform their countries’ TVET systems since the assessment. ( more) |
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 | 21 October 2013UNESCO-UNEVOC virtual conference on greening TVET From 12 to 26 November 2013, UNESCO-UNEVOC is organizing the second virtual conference on Greening TVET on the UNEVOC e-Forum. Moderated by Dr Julia Kastrup, the discussions will focus on clarifying how to support processes of Greening TVET and sustainable development in policy and practice, with an emphasis on qualifications needs and implementation strategies. ( more) |
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 | 27 August 2013Strengthening regional harmonization for the transformation of TVET To strengthen global and regional harmonization for the advancement of TVET transformation through the capacities of UNEVOC's unique global Network of specialized TVET institutions and affiliated partners, the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre is organizing a series of meetings to be held in all regions of the world.
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 | 12 August 2013Skills for inclusive and sustainable development in BotswanaFrom 27 July to 05 August 2013 and under the kind invitation of the Republic of Botswana, Mr Shyamal Majumdar, Head of UNESCO-UNEVOC, and Ms Mmantsetsa Marope, Director of the Division for Basic Learning and Skills Development at UNESCO, undertook an exploratory mission to Gaborone, Botswana. ( more) |
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 | 3 May 2013International Forum on new trends in water-related capacity developmentOn the occasion of Wasser Berlin 2013, the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre, in collaboration with the UNW-DPC organized a session entitled "Adding Value in Water-Related Capacity Development" during the international forum focusing on new trends in water-related capacity development" on 25 April 2013 in Berlin, Germany. ( more) |
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 | 5 December 2012Delegates from Peru visit UNESCO-UNEVOC On 4 December 2012, the team of UNESCO-UNEOVC welcomed fifteen delegates from Peru specialized in the field of vocational education in the water sector to the Centre’s premises in Bonn, Germany. ( more) |
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 | 15 November 2012TVET as the key to sustainable developmentOn Day 1 of the International Forum on the role of the UNEVOC Network in transforming TVET for a sustainable future, over 100 delegates from over 50 countries gathered to share their knowledge and commitment to TVET development worldwide. ( more) |
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 | 11 May 2012UNEVOC at IFAT Entsorga Trade Fair in Munich, Germany, 7-11 May 2012UNESCO-UNEVOC participated in the IFAT Entsorga Trade Fair for Water, Sewage, Waste and Raw Materials Management, that was held in Munich from 7 to 11 May 2012. With over 100,000 visitors from 180 countries, IFAT is the world’s largest trade fair for water and sanitation issues. ( more) |
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 | 10 August 2011Open Intl. Competition: International Study on skills formation for green development ( more) |
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 | 21 April 2011Students from Hong Kong University visit UNESCO-UNEVOC ( more) |
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 | 10 November 2010Meeting: TVET and ESD in CIS CountriesThe meeting aimed to support educational leaders from UNEVOC Centres to assist CIS countries in addressing global sustainable development challenges. ( more) |
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 | 5 October 2010UNESCO-UNEVOC participated in the IFAT Entsorga Trade Fair in Munich ( more) |
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 | 29 July 2010Green TVET and ESD, Munich and Magdeburg, Germany, 13-17 September (Update August 2011 - Report published) ( more) |
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 | 19 March 2010Developing Innovative Approaches to ESD: Curriculum Reform in TVET in China ( more) |
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 | 3 December 2009Training materials for herders in Mongolia ( more) |
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 | 3 December 2009Asia-Pacific meeting on TVET teacher education for sustainable development ( more) |
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 | 28 June 2009"Curriculum Development in TVET", Brunei Darussalam, 15-18 June 2009
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 | 16 June 2009TVET and ESD in the Commonwealth of Independent States ( more) |
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 | 5 June 2009Curriculum reform in TVET China ( more) |
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 | 2 April 2009UNESCO World Conference on ESD in Bonn ( more) |
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 | 2 April 2009TVET workshop at UNESCO World Conference on ESD ( more) |
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 | 17 February 2009Tamagawa University delegation visits UNESCO-UNEVOC ( more) |
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 | 19 September 2008International Roundtable: The Return of TVET to the Int. Development Agenda? ( more) |
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 | 26 June 20088-11-2007
Corporate Social Responsibility and ESD ( more) |
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 | 10 April 2008Skills development for the water and sanitation sector in Vietnam ( more) |
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 | 1 December 200701-12-2007
4th International Conference on Environmental Education a success ( more) |
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 | 5 October 200705-10-2007
UNESCO-UNEVOC Virtual Conference on
"TVET for a Sustainable Future" ( more) |
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 | 26 May 200726-05-07
Consultative Meeting “Engaging the Private Sector” ( more) |
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 | 11 May 200711-05-2007
Towards Sustainable Global Health ( more) |
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 | 19 December 20066-12-2006
Needs Analysis: Water and Sanitation Sector in Vietnam ( more) |
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 | 19 December 20069-12-2006
TVET for All - a Master Key for Sustainable Development? ( more) |
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 | 5 August 200620-7-2006
Prof. Charles Hopkins delivers lecture on TVET for sustainable development ( more) |
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 | 5 August 200618-7-2006
Symposium: TVET for Sustainable Development in Vietnam, 2-5 July 2006 ( more) |
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