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A new initiative by UNESCO’s Global Skills Academy (GSA) will provide more than 100,000 young people across Peru with access to training in key employability skills thanks to a collaboration between Fundación Telefónica, a partner of the GSA, and SENATI.
As part of the two-year partnership signed in August, SENATI — an education and professional training institution in Latin America and a member of UNESCO’s UNEVOC Network — will implement Fundación Telefónica’s Conecta Empleo courses in its 54 educational campuses in Peru.
The Conecta Empleo programme allows young people to access no cost and certified online training to improve their digital skills and transition into the labour market. Participating students as well as SENATI instructors will now be able to access courses in web analytics, digital marketing, web design, and programming.
“Our main mission is to provide quality education and offer the necessary tools to our students for their professional development,” said SENATI’s National Director, Gustavo Alva Gustavson. “The signing of this partnership allows our young people to complement their professional training”.
The value of local partnerships
The Conecta Empleo programme is already being rolled out in Spain and 9 countries across Latin America, including Peru, through partnerships with various institutions and organizations. But through the Global Skills Academy, Fundación Telefónica is partnering for the first time with a Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institution.
“Digital education and skills are the backbone for overcoming social gaps and this is why training is one the most important global challenges facing us today,” said Carmen Morenés, Managing Director at Fundación Telefónica.
“This collaboration allows us to pilot and jointly explore how formal and non-formal training can be combined to train young people and prepare them to enter the labor market,” she said.
Partnering with local players, such as SENATI, also facilitates scalability and allows Fundación Telefónica to reach populations it otherwise wouldn’t, Morenés explained. Meanwhile, collaborating with members of the UNEVOC network opens up opportunities for young people to participate in Conecta Empleo’s Professionals 4.0 training journeys which are designed for specific sectors, such as transport, tourism, agricultural and construction.
Skills for the labour market
In addition to digital competencies, through the online trainings, students can also develop important soft skills for employment, entrepreneurship, and effective negotiation tactics.
“We live in an era of exponential change,” with technology, AI, big data and automatization changing our daily lives and the ways in which we work, explained Morenés. “The need for adaptation [therefore] makes it critical to develop the soft skills to foster curiosity, creativity, teamwork, critical thinking, and resilience, among others.”
“Some of those skills are gained through experience and therefore is important that young people get trained and start developing them before transitioning into the labour market,” said Morenés.
The Global Skills Academy, launched by UNESCO in July 2020, aims to help ten million young people build skills for employability and resilience by 2029.
Currently, 20 members of the Global Education Coalition are contributing to the GSA’s mission through free and high-quality online trainings. UNESCO’s specialized institute for technical and vocational education and training (UNEVOC) matches learners with Academy trainings by leveraging partnerships with over 250 vocational centers located in more than 160 countries.
