On 15 July 2019, on the occasion of World Youth Skills Day, UNESCO launched the Youth Employment in the Mediterranean (YEM) Knowledge Platform.

The regional platform was established to strengthen the collaboration across the countries in the region in assessing and anticipating skills needs and to foster peer-learning, knowledge-sharing of best practices and effective governance of skills anticipation systems. It will allow for further exchanges among key actors in the region to deepen the understanding of different policy drivers and emerging trends to avoid skills mismatch. Particular focus will be placed on green and digital economies.

The platform is one of the key components of UNESCO’s YEM Project which promotes the relevance, quality and image of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in the South Mediterranean region, and is funded by the European Union.

The Youth Employment in the Mediterranean project (YEM), funded by the European Union and implemented by UNESCO (2018-2020), is building on the achievements of the Employment Component of the Networks of Mediterranean Youth project (NET-MED Youth). In alignment with UNESCO’s Strategy for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) 2016-2021, YEM will address the issue of youth unemployment in the region by improving skills anticipation and assessment systems, the quality and relevance of TVET, and by fostering regional cooperation between the eight beneficiary countries: Algeria, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia.

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