LKDF Events

Elevating industrial skills development through dialogue.

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Events

Annually, the LKDF takes center stage by hosting or engaging in a series of events. In collaboration with partners and other organizations, the LKDF aims to ignite conversations about the most relevant trends in demand-oriented industrial skills development. Explore our events below to get a glimpse of our upcoming schedule and to look back on our past initiatives.

The LKDF Forum

The LKDF Forum stands as the flagship event of the LKDF. It convenes annually under a different theme and serves as a venue to discuss some of the most significant developments within the skills development field.

The Forum is an occasion for partners, project teams, training specialists, TVET experts, and interested stakeholders to come together, delve into the importance of skills development, and provide recommendations on ways to assess, develop, and monitor curricula in training activities.

Latest Editions

Launch: LKDF Sustainability Curricula

UNIDO's Learning and Knowledge Development Facility (LKDF), in collaboration with partners, developed a set of curriculum materials to support industrializing countries to better comply with sustainability regulations, implement sustainability initiatives, and drive overall sustainable development. In this webinar, the LKDF and the co-creators of the sustainability curricula will officially launch the material and present the key content included in the material.

#LKDForum 2023

Participation in global supply chains is an important driver of productivity gains and employment creation, but social and environmental conditions in supply chains have, in many cases, improved little. The Forum emphasizes the critical role of skills development in achieving sustainability in supply chains.

LIVE with Aya Chebbi: Building Resilience through a Skillful Youth – LKDF Forum 2022

In view of the Forum, the Tunisian diplomat and former African Union Envoy on Youth Aya Chebbi will talk to some of the event's speakers to start setting the scene for the event.

#LKDForum 2022

The world is undergoing rapid and unpredictable changes; when changes are fast, as it has been recently, strengthening workers’ and institutions’ resilience is essential.

#EDD21 – Can the Future of Skills Be Green and Gender-Inclusive?

Women’s ability to participate equally in markets boosts productivity

#LKDForum 2021

Digital Skills for an Inclusive Future

#LKDForum 2020

The world is currently facing an unprecedented crisis that is affecting social and economic systems alike.