{"id":13491,"date":"2018-07-16T16:09:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youthrussia.ru\/en\/?p=13491"},"modified":"2018-07-16T16:09:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:09:12","slug":"world-youth-skills-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/youthrussia.ru\/en\/news\/world-youth-skills-day","title":{"rendered":"World Youth Skills Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 16, the event dedicated to the World Youth Skills Day will be held at the UN headquarters in New York. \u00a0Discussion will be focused on the way innovation and emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), are transforming labor markets, as well as which skills youth need to operate in future economies and to become drivers of a sustainable future. Education and training are key determinants of success in the labor market, but existing systems are failing to address the learning needs of many young people, and surveys of learning outcomes and skills show that a large number of youth have low levels of achievement in basic literacy and numeracy. To raise awareness on the importance of investing in youth skills development, the United Nations General Assembly decided in resolution\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/ga\/search\/view_doc.asp?symbol=A\/RES\/69\/145\">A\/RES\/69\/145<\/a>\u00a0to designate 15 July as\u00a0World Youth Skills Day. The decision was concluded in the framework of the World youth conference in Sri Lanka (in 2013). \u00a0One of the initiators of this event was Jayathma Wickramanayake \u2013 UN Secretary-General&#8217;s Envoy on Youth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13492 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/youthrussia.ru\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/UN-bldg-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"http:\/\/youthrussia.ru\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/UN-bldg-300x158.jpg 300w, http:\/\/youthrussia.ru\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/UN-bldg-768x404.jpg 768w, http:\/\/youthrussia.ru\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/UN-bldg-1024x539.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/youthrussia.ru\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/UN-bldg.jpg 1520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 16, the event dedicated to the World Youth Skills Day will be held at the UN headquarters in New York. \u00a0Discussion will be focused on the way innovation and emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), are transforming labor markets, as well as which skills youth need to operate in future economies and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/youthrussia.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13491"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/youthrussia.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/youthrussia.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youthrussia.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youthrussia.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/youthrussia.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13493,"href":"http:\/\/youthrussia.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13491\/revisions\/13493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youthrussia.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/youthrussia.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youthrussia.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youthrussia.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}