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Location: Room 2212
2nd Floor (right)
Date: Wednesday, 03/Sept/2025
3:30pm
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5:00pm
Paper Session 1B: Choice - "Reorientation, reforms and social bias in career choices"
Location: Room 2212
 

The Career Guidance and Aspirations of Vocational High School Students in France: Towards New Educational and Social Polarizations?

Noémie OLYMPIO1, Eric TORTOCHOT2, Caroline HACHE3

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

Patrick Emmenegger1, Matthias Haslberger1, Anna Margareta WILSON2

1: SEPS, HSG, Switzerland; 2: IDHEAP, UNIL, Switzerland



Les défis du changement de carrière professionnelle pour les professionnels de la santé : une étude de cas

Fernando César de SOUZA

Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Brazil

5:10pm
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6:40pm
Paper session 2B: Transferability - "Public-private partnership"
Location: Room 2212
 

Public-Private Partnership in TVET: A case study of collaboration between the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia and businesses in Cambodia

VA ROS

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

Siegfried Dr. Berg, Bunthan Tep, Ursin Marius Saxer

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH



DUAL VET in Nepal

Rabindra SINGH

Helvetas Nepal, Nepal

Date: Thursday, 04/Sept/2025
8:30am
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10:00am
Paper session 3B: Choice - "Educational aspirations"
Location: Room 2212
 

" j'espère ne plus travailler ” : aspirations des jeunes en formation professionnelle

Taïs FORETAY1,2

1: Haute Ecole Pédagogie Vaud, Switzerland; 2: Université de Lausanne, Switzerland



Decent work: specificity, complexity and influencing factors among VET/PET students in Ticino

Francesca Crotta, Jenny Marcionetti

Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI), Switzerland



Aspiring to cognitively demanding training occupations – the role of attitudes and performance

Anett FRIEDRICH, Annalisa SCHNITZLER

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

Yoann FAVRE, Marina Fiori, Matilde Wenger

HEFP, Switzerland

10:25am
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11:55am
Paper session 4B: Choice - "Trajectories & transitions"
Location: Room 2212
 

From DUT to BUT: A New Social Recruitment for New Aspirations?

Robin CASSE, Anne BOITARD, Gilles NICOLET

Université Grenoble Alpes, France



Non-linear trajectories in vocational training: young people's choices and pathway changes after compulsory schooling

Rafael MERINO, Isaac FIERRO

Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain



Shaping one’s relationship to initial vocational education and training: between structural constraints and the reconfiguration of aspirations

Andrea Tadeo Granda1,2, Meryl Merran3

1: IRISSO (Université Paris Dauphine - PSL); 2: Giscop 93; 3: Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (Sciences Po - CNRS)



Changing Occupational Aspirations: How Vocational Education Pathways Matter

Sara Alice MÖSER

University Bern, Switzerland

2:30pm
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4:00pm
Paper session 5B: Alternation - "Drop out"
Location: Room 2212
 

The pioneers are dropping out: A study of the trajectories of gender-atypical vocational education and training

Pia WAGNER, Ralf Dorau, Lisa Fournier

Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung, Germany



VET drop-outs as a system-inherent phenomenon: On the historical persistence of premature contract dissolutions in Switzerland

Thomas RUOSS

SFUVET, Switzerland



Unpacking factors explaining degree transfer and University-to-VET transfer after university dropout in Spain

Iván DIEGO-RODRÍGUEZ1, Juan P. GAMBOA2, Ana B. BERNARDO GUTIÉRREZ3

1: University of Deusto; 2: Orkestra - Basque Institute of Competitiveness; 3: University of Oviedo

Date: Friday, 05/Sept/2025
10:40am
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12:10pm
Paper session 6B: Alternation - "Effects of VET reforms"
Location: Room 2212
 

Between economic boom and equal opportunities: the reforms of post-obligatory education in Switzerland in the context of the “educational expansion” (1960-1980)

Bettina BLATTER1, Lorenzo BONOLI1, Sarah BIZZINI1, Daniela DUTHALER2, Philipp EIGENMANN2

1: SFUVET, Switzerland; 2: PH Thurgau, Switzerland



Hiring chances and employers‘ perception of job candidates with a Federal VET Certificate

Miriam Grønning, Lara Thörner, Irene Kriesi

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

Anna Cecilia Rapp, Torberg Falch

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway



EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF CEMETS REFORM LABS: ALUMNI PERSPECTIVES ON KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND SYSTEMIC CHANGE

Iryna Chernysh, Patrick McDonald, Marit van Dekken, Michelle Augustine Palayil, Katie Caves

ETH Zürich, CES, Switzerland


 
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