We promote social progress and economic growth by developing 21st century skills.  
 

Learn more

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.

Not specifically related
to a particular job, task, field, discipline, or occupation

Learn more

 

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. 


The power of curriculum to transform education

Download it now!

Share:

        


A World of Transformation: Moving from Degrees to Skills-Based Alternative Credentials

Download it now!

Share:

        


What Technology Can and Can’t Do for Education

Download it now!

Share:

    


How Do Disruptive Innovators Prepare Today’s Students to be Tomorrow’s Workforce?

Download it now!

Share:

        

Discover more

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.

Learn more

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.

Become a partner

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.

Publication Webinar Blogpost Press release

Share:

    

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

    More information
    x
    x
    x
  • 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

    Más información
    x
    x
    x
  • 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

    Más información
    x
    x
    x
  • BRIEF SERIES
    Skills for life: Lifelong learning

    2020-07-16

    Systems of learning need to adapt to a new normal of global life.

    More information
    x
    x
    x