Global Workers’ Academy on Sustainable Development

Digital Global Workers’ Academy on Sustainable Development was designed to support trade unions’ active engagement in SDG processes and a proactive involvement in the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks. The Academy consisted of five weeks of training organized in five modules: SDGs – State of Play, Decent and Green Jobs, Rights for all workers, Equality and Inclusiveness and Peace and Dialogue. It combined synchronous training in ten live webinars with asynchronous learning through a series of self-guided e-learning modules, videos, info-stories, reading assignments and forum discussions on the e-campus. CONTENT Participants could join ten webinars on offer either live or through a recording. They covered the following topics: - Introduction to Sustainable Development - The 2030 Agenda: Building a Greener, Safer and Better Future - Trade Unions' Engagement in UN Processes - Progress in the Implementation of SDG 8 - Boosting Trade Union Action for Climate Justice - Promoting Labour Rights for Fair Economies and Societies - Ways to Improve Social Protection Systems Using the SDGs - Youth Action for SDGs - Achieving Women’s Equal Leadership and Economic Inclusion - Solidarity and Dialogue for Peace and Social Justice By exploring self-guided e-learning modules the participants learnt about: i) Key elements of the UN reforms and the decent work agenda, ii) Trade union’s integration of Decent Work Priorities into Cooperation Frameworks; iii) Frameworks for effective trade union responses to the COVID-19 crisis and iv) Guidelines for a just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies for all. ECAMPUS The Academy was supported by the E-campus, the education platform of the International Training Centre of the ILO. The platform was used for the distribution of course information, training material, learning tasks, exchanges of good practices and experiences, feedback and multimedia content. REQUIREMENTS The Certificate of Participation hereby attests that the participant took part in the Digital Global Workers’ Academy on Sustainable Development: How to Accelerate Agenda 2030 during the Decade of Action. NUMBER OF HOURS: 30