We promote social progress and economic growth by developing 21st century skills.
SKILLS FOR LIFE
21st Century Skills are important
determinants of success
These skills are transversals because they are widely transferable to different settings and not specific to a job, task, sector, discipline, and occupation.
Essential
to human development
Necessary
to navigate healthy, productive and, happy lives
Reusable and transferable
from one field of life to another.
DISRUPTING EDUCATION
It is time for disruptive innovation
Traditional education is not enough to prepare people for rapidly changing labor markets, challenging environments, and increasingly diverse societies. To fill these gaps, non-traditional actors have led new trends in education and disrupted the markets.
A World of Transformation: Moving from Degrees to Skills-Based Alternative Credentials
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How Do Disruptive Innovators Prepare Today’s Students to be Tomorrow’s Workforce?
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SOLUTIONS
We shape talent through impactful interventions, programs, prototypes, and content at all stages of life.
We support significant connections between global trends in innovation in education, creativity, and the most disruptive ideas for improving lives. Learn how the IDB Group improve lives by developing #skills21 in the region.
DIGITAL
CITIZENSHIP
ART
SPORTS
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
MINDFULNESS
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
PARTNERS
We work with partners to expand our impact
We improve the education ecosystems in Latin America and the Caribbean with our partners from the public and private sectors.
Behind the Camera: Creativity and Investment for Latin
America and the Caribbean Learnings from Conversations
with Key Players in the Audiovisual Sector.
This study assesses the present state of the audiovisual sector in Latin America and the Caribbean in the context of increased demand resulting from the growth of streaming and national industries in the region. The book includes an assessment of audiovisual milestones while centering on current public policy debates and 21st-Century skills. After interviewing and conversing with nearly 100 emerging creators, producers, entertainment executives, government officials, and film association professionals, the book provides an overview of the main challenges and opportunities faced throughout the continent. The book includes a survey of 417 producers aimed at understanding the need for below-the-line (technical) and 21st century skills in LAC.
UPDATES
- PRESS
KERIS joins the Coalition to promote transversal skills for the 21st century
2020-08-18
the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS ) has joined the IDB’s Coalition for 21st Century Skills
- PRESS
KERIS se une a la Coalición para promover las habilidades del siglo XXI
2020-08-18
El Servicio de Información sobre Educación e Investigación de Corea (KERIS ) se ha unido a la Coalición liderada por el BID
- BRIEF SERIES
Habilidades para la vida: Aprender a aprender
2020-07-17
Saber cómo regular los propios procesos de aprendizaje con el objetivo de hacer más eficaces nuestros esfuerzos por aprender constituye una habilidad clave para
- BRIEF SERIES
Skills for life: Lifelong learning
2020-07-16
Systems of learning need to adapt to a new normal of global life.