Call for good practices on employability

The UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education, with the support of Lumina Foundation, is seeking good practices from universities worldwide to enhance student/learner employability.

• Do you integrate employability skills or industry-relevant content into your curriculum in an impactful way?
• Are you offering practical, work-integrated, or service-learning opportunities in an innovative manner?
• Does your career office employ cutting-edge strategies to guide and counsel learners or connect them with high-quality internships?
• Do you offer learners meaningful networking and mentoring opportunities with employers?
• Do you offer short courses, micro-credentials, certifications, or lifelong learning opportunities that effectively support learners in (re)entering or advancing in the labor market?
• Are you fostering learners’ entrepreneurial ideas and supporting learners’-led ventures and startups?
• Do you have an advanced employability and employment data tracking system for learners and graduates that detect individual needs, gaps and inequalities?
• Are you doing other activities that help the employability of your students or other learners in your community?

Many universities are implementing these practices, but do you stand out by doing so in an innovative way that adds value, in an effective way that achieves results, and in an inclusive way that especially benefits underrepresented groups (ethnic minorities, economically disadvantaged learners, learners with disabilities, etc.)

If so, we encourage you to fill out this form until October 11th for a chance to be recognized as one of the 15 good practice cases worldwide highlighted in a UNESCO report.

If you want to promote your initiative, please use the comment section to include a link or description to your work so good practices can also be exchanged.

Do you want to know more about this initiative and complete the form? Click in the language of your choice: