Current projects

We're working on a number of projects across Central South America, the Middle East, Africa, wider Europe, the Western Balkans and Central Asia to transform skills, training and professional standards. Here's a selection of our current work:

• Hystead, skills, training and economic opportunities for young people in sustainable facilities management: Developing work-based learning programmes on sustainable facility management in three cities in Serbia, FYR Macedonia and Montenegro and to provide implementation support.
• Creative Spark - Uzbekistan: Preparing graduates for the world of business in the creative tourism sector.
• Management training programme development for the construction trade in the Philippines: Developing and quality assuring a fit for purpose management training programme that will transform the skills of supervisory level construction workers in the Philippines’ booming construction industry.
• Columbia - Partnership Environments for Peace: Revising and aligning the National Training Service in Colombia's (SENA) existing eco-tourism birdwatching and snorkelling curriculum to international standards, and support development of learning guides and teaching material for bird watching.
• British Council Uzbekistan – Skills for Employability (S4E): Building the capacities of the Ministry, its subordinate institutions and partners to deliver a TVET system that meets employers’ needs.
• Kazakhstan -  Polymetal – Economic Inclusion for young people in the Mining Sector: To improve economic inclusion for young people with a focus on roles for blue-collar workers in the mining sector. 
• Kazakhstan - Shalkiya Zinc Ltd JSC – Economic inclusion for young people in the mining sector: To improve economic inclusion for young people with a focus on roles for blue-collar workers in the mining sector. 
• VET Toolbox intervention in Ghana – Curriculum Development: Providing advice on how to improve the curriculum for VET programmes in the area of meat and fish processing as well as guinea fowl raising as a business (through a competitive value chain).
• Economic inclusion through improved transition from training into employment for youth in the automotive manufacturing sector in Turkey: Providing technical assistance and supported knowledge transfer, capacity building and the development of a solid operational plan for entry-level training in the automotive manufacturing sector in Turkey.
• Next Tourism Generation Skills Alliance: Contributing to the development of a new strategic Blueprint approach for Sectoral Skills Development in Tourism to respond to the fast changing skills gaps in digital, green and social skills sets.