The United Nations Global Youth Initiative (GYI) is based on the premise that when youth are empowered, have access to adequate technical and financial resources, and are offered opportunities to engage meaningfully in decision-making processes, we will witness a youth-led transformation of education that will help ensure that national and global commitments from the Transforming Education Summit (TES) are effectively translated into action.

Future Perspectives in partnership with UNESCO IESALC, who leads one of the capacity building components of the Global Youth Initiative (GYI) will ensure the capacity of youth and students, especially the most marginalized, is strengthened to enable them become agents of change in transforming education in their specific national contexts through the “Innovation to Transform Education Training (ITET).

The Better Learning Better Innovation (BIBO) Academy led by UNESCO IESALC equips young education stakeholders with skills of innovation and policy and project implementation necessary for supporting their initiatives to innovate educational decisions and practices.

Future Perspectives’ objective is to foster a new generation of young leaders who drive revolutionary change for the African continent. Through the co-launch of the ITET, it aims to forge lasting impact to champion education reform, propel advancements in innovation, and provide solutions to Africa’s education challenges.  

The design of the ITET provides evidence-based upskilling training on these three key areas: Applied Policy Skills, Project Management Skills and Innovation Skills.

ITET accommodates two models of participation:

a) full-time intensive on-site capacity building, targeting young representatives recommended by key education institutions and broader stakeholders in the country;

b) part-time virtual capacity building, open to all education stakeholders and giving priority to young practitioners who are in the field and hope to innovative their practices in education.  

At the end of the upskilling training, young education stakeholders are expected to launch new initiatives or advance current projects as agents of innovation in their educational settings.  

Future Perspectives and UNESCO IESALC aim to train 50 young education stakeholders as the first on-site cohort in Nigeria. Among the 50 trainees, 40% will be pre-service and in-service education stakeholders who are currently studying at higher education institutions with education-focused programmes, 20% will be interdisciplinary university students or practitioners who have a crossover interest or projects on education, 20% will be education practitioners at national, provincial, and local levels, and 20% will be youth leaders from major youth organizations in Nigeria based at higher education.  

ITET will be open to all education stakeholders below age 35 and give priority to trainees representing marginalized and vulnerable groups (e.g. indigenous population, ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities, people with disability, women and girls, groups in conflicts, refugees, etc.).  

Young education stakeholders whose work contributes to transforming any of the following education sectors are encouraged to participate in both on-site and virtual capacity building: 

• Early child development 

• Primary education 

• Secondary education 

• Higher education 

• Technical and vocational training and education 

• Informal learning  

On-site training will run from November 20 - 24, 2023. More details click HERE