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Side Event Presentation of the document “Education and the development of digital competences in Latin America and the Caribbean”

24 June 2025, 16:30 - 18:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Digital transformation is increasingly modifying people's daily lives and their opportunities in the productive, social and cultural world (Velázquez, Martínez and Palma, 2020). Artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, cloud data and platforms are among these digital technologies (Palma 2024), and their potential impacts are still being determined. Recent labour market analyses show the transformation and creation of new occupations, mainly related to the rise of the technology industry and information management tasks, as well as the elimination of certain types of jobs due to automatio…

Fifth Regional Seminar on Social Development

24 - 26 June 2025 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

BACKGROUND Since the 1995 World Summit on Social Development in Copenhagen, the global agenda on social development has advanced significantly, not only on a deeper understanding of challenges such as well-being, poverty, inequality, and discrimination, but also on a growing emphasis on upholding economic, social, and cultural rights. Within this evolving framework, the changes, ambition and commitment of countries have been notable. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Regional Agenda for Inclusive Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean stand as compelling exampl…

Education can’t wait: Enabling conditions and investment for a better future in Latin America and the Caribbean

24 September 2024, 13:00 - 15:00 | Event (Other events)

Be part of this event that brings together high authorities of the region to consolidate and mobilize a common position to ensure the enabling conditions and financing strategies that will allow for a sustainable transformation of public education, the achievement of the educational goals of the 2030 Agenda, and, with this, the advancement towards guaranteeing the human right to education for all.…

Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Launch PISA 2022

12 December 2023, 07:00 - 09:50 | Event (Other events)

The objective of this hybrid event is to disseminate the results of the OECD's 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and promote their use to address the challenges that countries in the region face in relation to learning outcomes and to promote actions for an educational transformation to move towards inclusive and quality education.…

Social Policies Webinar n°1 "Education in times of pandemic. An opportunity to transform education systems in Latin America and the Caribbean"

27 October 2022, 08:00 - 09:20 | Event (Other events)

The Social Development Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) invites you to the launch of the document Education in times of pandemic. An opportunity to transform education systems in Latin America and the Caribbean . This publication proposes some measures aimed at transforming education systems by restructuring them to be resilient and inclusive and to integrate the learning from the pandemic.…

Launch of the Regional Monitoring Report SDG4-Education 2030

8 September 2022, 07:00 - 09:00 | Event (Other events)

Join us for the launch of the Regional Monitoring Report SDG4-Education 2030 Education in Latin America and the Caribbean at a crossroads . At the event we will look at education trends between 2015-2021, analyzing educational indicators of the region, and systematizing the main policies carried out forward across the countries. We will review their achievements and identify the challenges guiding decision-making on educational policy in the next decade, towards 2030.…

First Regional Seminar on Social Development "Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: the prolonged crisis as an opportunity for restructuring"

13 - 15 October 2021 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Education is a fundamental human right, at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and key to achieving a comprehensive social and labour inclusion of the population, while also contributing to economic growth, equality, and civic participation in society. Research has shown that higher levels of education are associated with the reduction of poverty and inequality, the improvement of health indicators, the possibilities of access to decent work, upward social mobility, and a more active civic engagement. Education is also central in relation to the structural changes require…

Webinar: Youth educational and employment trajectories in the post-pandemic recovery

18 January 2021, 08:00 - 09:00 | Event (Other events)

This webinar will reflect on the impact of the current crisis on regional economies and the importance of supportive actions for the generation of educational and labour inclusion trajectories among young people in the region, discussing how the cooperation agenda between ECLAC and Norway will contribute to these efforts in the region.…

Webinar: Youth educational and employment trajectories in the post-pandemic recovery

18 January 2021, 08:00 - 09:00 | Event (Other events)

This webinar will reflect on the impact of the current crisis on regional economies and the importance of supportive actions for the generation of educational and labour inclusion trajectories among young people in the region, discussing how the cooperation agenda between ECLAC and Norway will contribute to these efforts in the region.…

Fourth International Conference on TVET in the Caribbean

22 - 24 May 2019 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

At the request of UNESCO, ECLAC participated in the 4th International Conference on TVET in the Caribbean, which took place in Montego Bay, Jamaica on May 22-24, 2019. There, ECLAC presented the results of the ECLAC-Government of Norway cooperation programme “Technical and vocational education and training for greater equality in Latin America and the Caribbean”. In particular, it shared lessons learned on the contribution of TVET to socioeconomic development and on the regional experience on financing of TVET.…

International Seminar "Technical and Vocational Education and Training for labour inclusion and greater equality in Latin America and the Caribbean"

13 - 14 March 2019 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The seminar seeks to bring together government representatives and renowned specialists in order to establish a dialogue about inclusion challenges presented by the present and the future of work with a gender perspective; the articulation of the education and technical vocational system and its role as an instrument of inclusion; the identification and anticipation of skills demands, the dissemination of information about the labour market; and technical education and training financing.…

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