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UNESCO 

Background

UNESCO-UNEVOC is UNESCO’s international centre for technical and vocational education and training dedicated to supporting the upgrading of the quality and relevance of TVET in the Member States. UNESCO-UNEVOC coordinates a network of 240 TVET institutions across over 150 Member States, aiming to strengthen their impact on national TVET system development. The greening of TVET is an integrated approach adopted by UNESCO-UNEVOC to mobilize the global network in aligning its planning, curricula, school/campus operations, teacher professional development, partnerships with communities and stakeholders, and research and innovation with the concept and principles of sustainable development and climate empowerment.

SENAI (Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial (transl. National Service for Industrial Training) is a network of secondary-level professional schools established and maintained by the Brazilian Confederation of Industry. SENAI is one of the active UNEVOC Centres in the Latin American region, championing excellent approaches to addressing urgent skill needs and industry shifts in the green transition through partnerships and a future skills approach.

Objectives

• Experience the impact of visual media as a powerful tool for communicating the urgency and actions required to address climate change. 

• Create awareness around TVET as a pathway to accelerate climate action plans and introduce a six-dimensional institutional approach to leverage training curricula, industry, and community alignments.

• Share the experience of Brazil regarding its methodological approach to skills foresight analysis and preparing skilled professionals to adopt cleaner solutions in industrial production.  

Agenda