LKDF
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
LKDF Forum 2025
This year's LKDF Forum is titled "Skills Development and Local Value Addition: Ensuring Sustainable Growth in Global Supply Chains." Join us on June 25 and 26 in Gothenburg, Sweden for an event dedicated to importance of providing skills to existing workers and to the future workforce while ensuring resilient supply chains.
LKDF Forum 2024
This year's LKDF Forum is titled "Skills for Critical Raw Materials Supply Chains: Ensuring responsible and sustainable practices for the Green and Digital Transition." Join us on November 13th and 14th in Kitwe, Zambia for an event dedicated to the future of mining, working to shape a sustainable future for the industry!
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.
LKDF Forum 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.
LKDF Forum 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