Centre for Skills
The OECD Centre for Skills supports countries to achieve better economic and social outcomes by taking a whole-of-government approach and engaging with stakeholders to develop & implement better skills policies.
OECD Skills Strategies: Promoting better skills, better jobs and better lives. Click here to learn more...
Brussels, 21-22 February 2024
OECD Skills Outlook 2023: Skills for a Resilient Green and Digital Transition
OECD Skills Strategies: Promoting better skills, better jobs and better lives. Click here to learn more...
Vocational Education and Training: exploring how skills can be effectively developed for successful careers.
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OECD Skills Strategies
We are working collaboratively with a range of countries in applying the OECD Skills Strategy framework to build more effective national skills strategies. Each country project offers a highly tailored approach to focus on the unique skills challenges, context and objectives within that country.
Vocational Education and Training and Adult Learning
OECD work on vocational education and training (VET) and adult learning draws on country studies, in-depth analysis of specific topics and available data to explore how professional skills can be effectively developed for successful careers.
OECD Skills Outlook
Insights on the importance of supporting individuals in acquiring a wide range of skills, at varying levels of proficiency, to promote economic and social resilience.
Skills Summits
Since 2016, the OECD has organised biennial Skills Summits together with host countries, for ministers & senior officials with responsibilities for diverse skills-relevant portfolios.
Belgium hosted the Skills Summit 2024 on 21-22 February 2024 in Brussels.
Covid-19 crisis: Latest analysis
- An Assessment of the Impact of COVID-19 on Job and Skills Demand Using Online Job Vacancy Data
- Adult Learning and COVID-19: How much informal and non-formal learning are workers missing?
- Teaching and learning in VET: Providing effective practical training in school-based settings
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What's new?
- Building a Skilled Cyber Security Workforce in Europe
- Quality matters: A comparative analysis of quality assurance mechanisms in adult education and training in OECD countries
- OECD Skills Outlook 2023: Skills for a Resilient Green and Digital Transition
- Emerging trends in AI skill demand across 14 OECD countries
- Building a Skilled Cyber Security Workforce in Latin America
- The effects of the EU Fit for 55 package on labour markets and the demand for skills
- Building Future-Ready Vocational Education and Training Systems
- The demand for language skills in the European labour market
- OECD Skills Strategy Bulgaria: Assessment and Recommendations
- OECD Skills Strategy Ireland: Assessment and Recommendations
- Not lost in translation: The implications of machine translation technologies for language professionals and for broader society
- See more work on skills
About the Centre for Skills
The OECD Centre for Skills provides policy advice and analytical insights about the impact of megatrends, such as digitalisation, globalisation, ageing and migration, on labour market needs and how this impacts the demand for skills. In particular, it works with countries to improve the governance and the effective design of lifelong learning systems that are responsive to changing labour market needs. Given that skills policies need to be well aligned with policies from other sectors (such as, employment, taxation and migration) in order to have the desired impact, the Centre adopts a whole-of-government approach and works horizontally with many other directorates within the OECD.
Contact us: OECDCentre4Skills@oecd.org