UNESCO-UNEVOC Global Awards for Innovation in TVET 2026 – YOA

Deadline: January 30, 2026

Applications are open for the UNESCO-UNEVOC Global Awards for Innovation in TVET 2026. UNESCO-UNEVOC is launching the Global Awards for Innovation in TVET to have a good time excellent initiatives which might be reimagining how technical and vocational training and coaching empowers people, societies and economies.

The Awards are coordinated by the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for TVET and funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMBFSFJ) as part of the initiative “Towards a global TVET agenda”.

The Global Awards for Innovation in TVET goal to:

• Enhance high quality and innovation by recognizing exemplary TVET establishments and initiatives.
• Increase international consciousness of TVET’s contribution, elevating the profile of TVET.
• Strengthen partnerships by fostering deeper engagement throughout the worldwide TVET group.
• Promote information sharing by facilitating the dissemination of finest practices.
• Improve fairness and inclusion by spotlighting efforts that tackle the wants of marginalized teams.
• Support lifelong studying by emphasizing programmes that foster lifelong and grownup training.

Categories

• Innovative Use of know-how: Pioneering options (digital, pedagogic or systemic) that put together learners for quickly altering job markets and societies
• Inclusive Excellence in TVET: Initiatives that improve alternatives for marginalized teams and promote gender, social and financial inclusion in TVET
• Green and Sustainable TVET: Programmes that embed sustainability, local weather motion and inexperienced abilities
• Resourceful Innovation: Impactful TVET options which might be profitable regardless of monetary, infrastructural or contextual constraints

Prizes

Award winners will obtain:

• Trophy and certificates
• Invitations to UNESCO-UNEVOC occasions to current the initiative or apply
• Publication in UNESCO-UNEVOC’s database of modern and promising practices in TVET
• Opportunities for international visibility and dissemination of their apply
• Support for scaling up and replicating the initiative (topic to availability of funds)

Eligibility

• Open to coaching suppliers and analysis institutes.
• Eligible candidates embody self-nominated establishments and people nominated by ministries or nationwide TVET our bodies.

Evaluation Criteria

The analysis framework emphasizes equity, inclusivity and contextual relevance — recognizing excellence throughout numerous useful resource settings.

Key standards:

• Innovation and originality: assesses the creativity and uniqueness of the strategy.
• Impact and outcomes: measures qualitative and quantitative enhancements in TVET outcomes relative to native and regional challenges.
• Sustainability, scalability and replicability: evaluates the potential for lengthy-time period and broader application in the identical nation and in different nations.
• Multistakeholder engagement: focuses on the participation of key stakeholders, together with native and group teams, in the planning, choice-making and implementation course of.
• Resourcefulness: acknowledges achievements achieved beneath monetary, infrastructure or different useful resource constraints.
• Relevance and responsiveness: assesses how properly the initiative addresses recognized abilities gaps, labour market wants and the lived realities of learners.

Application

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For extra info, go to Global Awards for Innovation in TVET.