Skillman International Forum 2025

Skillman Teachers Academy invites you to Skillman International Forum (SIF2025): “Bridging Skills and Innovation for a Green and Digital Future”

🌍 Hybrid event

📍 Location: Liverpool Hope University, Hope Park Campus, Liverpool, United Kingdom

📅 4–5 November 2025

🌐 Organisers: Skillman and Liverpool Hope University

SIF2025 will bring together ministers, senior policymakers, education leaders, industry innovators, and civil society actors from across the globe, offering a high-level space for dialogue, collaboration, and shared action.

The Forum is designed to advance several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as: 

• Quality Education - by promoting entrepreneurial education, innovation in VET, and lifelong learning opportunities.

• Decent Work and Economic Growth - focusing on green and digital skills that foster inclusive growth and decent jobs.

• Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure - encouraging innovation, digitalisation, and sustainable industrial development through education and training.

• Partnerships for the Goals – fostering international cooperation, multi-stakeholder collaboration, and knowledge-sharing for systemic impact.

Key thematic pillars include:

• The twin transition to green and digital economies
• Digital skills and the new GenAI revolution
• Skilling, upskilling and reskilling strategies (#UpReSkilling)
• Micro-credentials and credential transparency
• The future of VET and teacher education
• Blockchain-based digital badges for mobility and entrepreneurship

Expect: 

✨ Inspiring keynote speeches

✨ Policy panels and interactive roundtables

✨ Thematic workshops

✨ Dedicated presentation of the Skillman Teacher Academy (STA) – a transnational initiative aimed at enhancing teacher education in the VET sector

✨ An International Social Dinner and a cultural celebration of Guy Fawkes Night

👉 Apply now and choose online or onsite participation mode.

👉 If planning to come in person, register now in order to secure a grant for the trip and be among the first selected grant recipients!

We look forward to welcoming you to Liverpool!

🌐 More information: https://skillman.eu/sif2025