Skills Academy
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Skills Academy
BUILDING TOMORROW’S SKILLS SYSTEMS: POLICY, PRACTICE, AND PARTNERSHIPS IN MOTION
9–17 Octubre 2025
Key Features
High Level Expertise
Learn from ILO specialists, industry actors, education experts, ITCILO facilitators and fellow participants from around the world.
Life on Campus
Stay, study and explore in the beautiful city of Turin
Certificate of Participation
Obtain an ITCILO certificate to mark your achievement and skills acquired
Presentación del curso
The Academy on Skills Development is the flagship programme of ITCILO's capacity building portfolio on Skills and Lifelong Learning. Thanks to the participation of high-level ILO experts in this field, it meets participants at the heart of current debates and dialogues on the future of education and training systems. This intensive two-week experience will explore ILO's new Strategy on Skills and Lifelong Learning for 2022-30, providing participants with ideas to shape effective policies and with best practices from all over the world. Learn how to improve your skills systems in a fast-changing world of work.
¿Quiénes participan en este curso?
Policy makers and technical advisors for governments - Representatives of workers' and employers' organizations - Members of skills councils, national TVET authorities, and similar institutions - Experts and technical staff from CSOs, NGOs, and other civil society actors.
Why should I join?
The global skills debate has moved past access and speed—it’s now about direction, design, and durability.
As AI reshapes industries, climate imperatives demand radical adaptation, and the labour market fractures into new forms of employment, skills systems must become strategic system-building.
The 2025 Academy on Skills Development is the ILO’s flagship programme for professionals committed to future-proofing education and training ecosystems. It brings together global experts, policymakers, and social partners to co-create solutions for national systems that are resilient, inclusive, and aligned with the transitions ahead.
Informed by the ILO Skills and Lifelong Learning Strategy (2022–2030), this edition places a bold emphasis on governance, financing, intelligence, and inclusion. Whether you are working to transform national policy or deliver training to vulnerable groups, this Academy is your gateway to the next generation of skills leadership.
Which topics does this academy cover?
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Policies that shape the future
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Financing Skills Development for impact and equity
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From data to decisions: Making Skills Systems future-ready
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Learning pathways that Leave No One Behind
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Work-Based Learning and Quality Apprenticeships
2025 SPECIAL FEATURES
THE A I DISRUPTION LENS
Understand how generative AI is transforming skills requirements—and how to prepare workers, systems, and societies to adapt
THE CLIMATE TRANSITION IMPERATIVE
Dive into national and sectoral strategies for skills that power low-carbon development and just transitions
JUSTICE AND EQUITY AT THE CORE
Address the systemic exclusion of women, informal workers, migrants, and persons with disabilities through skills innovation
GLOBAL-TO-LOCAL PRACTICE
Apply global frameworks to local contexts through hands-on labs and case studies from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and beyond
