Conference Agenda
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Location: Room 2212 2nd Floor (right) |
| Date: Wednesday, 03/Sept/2025 | |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
Paper Session 1B: Choice - "Reorientation, reforms and social bias in career choices" Location: Room 2212 Chair: Manuela SCELSI GULER The Career Guidance and Aspirations of Vocational High School Students in France: Towards New Educational and Social Polarizations? 1: Aix Marseillle University, France; 2: Aix Marseille University, France; 3: Aix-Marseille University, France When Top-Down Imposition Meets Bottom-up Scepticism – The Relative Attractiveness Deficit of VET in Europe 1: SEPS, HSG, Switzerland; 2: IDHEAP, UNIL, Switzerland The challenges of career change for healthcare professionals: a case study. Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Brazil |
| 5:10pm - 6:40pm |
Paper session 2B: Transferability - "Public-private partnership" Location: Room 2212 Chair: Prof. Patrick BONVIN Public-Private Partnership in TVET: A case study of collaboration between the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia and businesses in Cambodia Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC, Cambodia, Cambodia Leveraging Private Sector Partnerships for Sustainable Work-Based Learning: Insights from the ASEAN-Swiss TVET Initiative in Cambodia and Lao PDR Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH DUAL VET in Nepal Helvetas Nepal, Nepal |
| Date: Thursday, 04/Sept/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:00am |
Paper session 3B: Choice - "Educational aspirations" Location: Room 2212 Chair: Prof. Jonas MASDONATI “I hope I won't have to work anymore” Aspirations of young people in vocational training 1: Haute Ecole Pédagogie Vaud, Switzerland; 2: Université de Lausanne, Switzerland Decent work: specificity, complexity and influencing factors among VET/PET students in Ticino Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI), Switzerland Aspiring to cognitively demanding training occupations – the role of attitudes and performance Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Germany Motivations and work-life balance: Understanding burnout among apprentices in the health and social care sector HEFP, Switzerland |
| 10:25am - 11:55am |
Paper session 4B: Choice - "Trajectories & transitions" Location: Room 2212 Chair: Dr. Barbara DUC From DUT to BUT: A New Social Recruitment for New Aspirations? Université Grenoble Alpes, France Non-linear trajectories in vocational training: young people's choices and pathway changes after compulsory schooling Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Shaping one’s relationship to initial vocational education and training: between structural constraints and the reconfiguration of aspirations 1: IRISSO (Université Paris Dauphine - PSL); 2: Giscop 93 Changing Occupational Aspirations: How Vocational Education Pathways Matter University Bern, Switzerland |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm |
Paper session 5B: Alternation - "Drop out" Location: Room 2212 Chair: Prof. Nadia LAMAMRA The pioneers are dropping out: A study of the trajectories of gender-atypical vocational education and training Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung, Germany VET drop-outs as a system-inherent phenomenon: On the historical persistence of premature contract dissolutions in Switzerland SFUVET, Switzerland Unpacking factors explaining degree transfer and University-to-VET transfer after university dropout in Spain 1: University of Deusto; 2: Orkestra - Basque Institute of Competitiveness; 3: University of Oviedo |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Paper session 5D: Choice - "Impact of COVID19" Location: Room 2212 Chair: Prof. Jérôme ROSSIER Transitions after an Apprenticeship: Impact of the COVID 19 Pandemic UNIGE, Switzerland What Role Do I Play? – Perceived Roles of Apprentices in Training Firms during COVID-19 University of Bern, Switzerland Entering the labour market or staying in education in times of crisis? How COVID-19 influenced education trajectories of VET graduates in Switzerland 1: University of Bern; 2: Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training (SFUVET) |
| Date: Friday, 05/Sept/2025 | |
| 10:40am - 12:10pm |
Paper session 6B: Alternation - "Effects of VET reforms" Location: Room 2212 Chair: Prof. Christof NÄGELE Between economic boom and equal opportunities: the reforms of post-obligatory education in Switzerland in the context of the “educational expansion” (1960-1980) 1: SFUVET, Switzerland; 2: PH Thurgau, Switzerland Hiring chances and employers‘ perception of job candidates with a Federal VET Certificate Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training SFUVET, Switzerland The Role of the “Third Year in School” in Norway’s Dual VET System: An Equity Perspective Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF CEMETS REFORM LABS: ALUMNI PERSPECTIVES ON KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND SYSTEMIC CHANGE ETH Zürich, CES, Switzerland |
