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Session Overview
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
2nd Floor
Date: Wednesday, 03/Sept/2025
12:30pm
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1:00pm
Welcome & Opening
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
1:00pm
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2:00pm
Keynote: Stephanie Matseleng Allais - "Does public VET have a future? Reflections from Africa"
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
2:00pm
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2:05pm
Short Break
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
2:05pm
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3:05pm
Keynote: Jim Hordern - "Alternation models: different relationships between education and work"
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
3:30pm
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5:00pm
Symposium 1
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
 

Migrants’ vocational guidance, and transition into VET in Switzerland

Chair(s): Alexandra FELDER (SFUVET, Switzerland)

Discussant(s): Alexandra Felder (SFUVET, Switzerland)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Trajectories of Involuntary Career Change Following Migration: A Qualitative Longitudinal Study

Caroline Éliane Brazier, Roxane Coquoz, Jonas Masdonati
University of Lausanne

 

Vocational Choices and Career Trajectories Under Constraint: Exploring Refugee Integration in the Swiss Labor Market

Stéphanie Cardoso
University Lausanne

 

Tensions during the implementation of integration policy in Switzerland: The challenges surrounding “fast and sustainable” integration

Ihssane Otmani
Haute école de travail social, Fribourg

 

What do you want to do in 10 years? Exploring refugees' career aspirations

Barbara E. Stalder
Bern University of Teacher Education

5:10pm
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6:40pm
Symposium 2
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
 

Immersive, Adaptive, and Reflective Technologies in Vocational and Professional Education and Training: Innovations, Applications and Challenges

Chair(s): Francesca AMENDUNI (SFUVET, Switzerland), Alberto Cattaneo (SFUVET, Switzerland)

Discussant(s): Juliette Desiron (Université de Fribourg)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Improving Oral Examination Performance with a 360° immersive environment

Francesca Amenduni, Christopher Keller, Franziska Wettstein, Alberto Cattaneo
SFUVET, Switzerland

 

The Evolution of Interaction Concepts in XR in the Era of AI - From procedural interactions to socially demanding conversations

Thomas Keller, Elke Brucker-Kley
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)

 

Workplace Learning for Safe Production: The development and validation of a digital tool to support the learning and training of Supervisors in the mining industry

Stephanie Macmahon
The University of Queensland

Date: Thursday, 04/Sept/2025
8:30am
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10:00am
Symposium 3
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
 

Récits d’expérience et biographiques : donner du sens aux trajectoires et construire une identité professionnelle évolutive. Partie I

Chair(s): Marcos MALDONADO (HEFP, Switzerland), Sandrine Cortessis (HEFP, Switzerland), Kristine Balslev (UNIGE, Swizerland)

Discussant(s): Kristine Balslev (UNIGE, Swizerland)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Écrits biographiques et réflexifs dans le cadre d’un dispositif de VAE préalable à la formation d’enseignant·es

Saskia Weber Guisan, Geneviève Tschopp Rywalski
HEP Vaud, Switzerland

 

Les récits autobiographiques réalisés par des enseignant·es en seconde carrière : retour sur un parcours aboutissant à une reconversion professionnelle

Sandrine Cortessis1, Kristine Balslev2, Margaux Chehab1, Marcos Maldonado1
1HEFP, Switzerland, 2UNIGE, Swizerland

 

Repenser les dynamiques du développement professionnel dans une perspective rythmanalytique

Michel Alhadeff-Jones
Institut Sunkhronos, Switzerland

 

Mise en mots de l’expérience, construction des sens et émancipation de la part de candidat.es à la VAE (Validation des Acquis de l’Expérience)

Martine Morisse
Université de Paris 8-Vincennes à Saint-Denis

10:25am
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11:55am
Symposium 4
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
 

Récits d’expérience et biographiques : donner du sens aux trajectoires et construire une identité professionnelle évolutive. Partie II

Chair(s): Marcos MALDONADO (HEFP, Switzerland), Sandrine Cortessis (HEFP, Switzerland), Kristine Balslev (UNIGE, Switzerland)

Discussant(s): Kristine Balslev (UNIGE, Switzerland)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

L’instruction au sosie en formation : le récit d’un « Soi dialogué » à l’intersection de l’activité et de la subjectivité

Pascal Simonet
CREN, France

 

Les écrits réflexifs, un outil au service du développement de l’identité professionnelle de bibliothécaires en milieu scolaire

Laetitia Mauroux, Soraya De Simone
HEP VD, Switzerland

 

Événement fondateur dans l’évolution professionnelle

Patrick Rywalski, Isabelle Fristalon
HEFP, Switzerland

 

Récits d’expérience et développement progressif d’une identité professionnelle via un portfolio : le cas du dispositif de formation ES des éducateur/trices de l’enfance à l’esede

Amélie Deschenaux, Christine Prudent
École supérieure en éducation de l'enfance, Switzerland

1:15pm
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2:15pm
Keynote: Fernando Marhuenda - "Putting on hold the transferability of dual training systems"
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
2:30pm
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4:00pm
Symposium FoBBIZ
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
 

Dual Apprenticeship Transfer to Bulgaria: A Natural Experiment

Christian Imdorf1,2, Johannes Karl Schmees3

1: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria; 2: Leibniz University Hannover, Germany; 3: University of Derby, United Kingdom



Transferring dual VET in the context of academic drift: The case of North Macedonia

Markus MAURER1, Ognen Spasovski2

1: Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland; 2: Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, North-Macedonia



From Passive Recipients to Active Agents: The Unrecognised Power of Learners in Dual TVET Transfers to West Africa

Alexandra Bohra, Felix Meckmann

Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences, Germany



Transferability of the Dual-Track VET System: Comparative and Aggregate Insights from Ground-Level Projects

Ingrid PORTENKIRCHNER, Christine VON HARRACH

Donor Committee for dual Vocational Education and Training in Development Cooperation (DC dVET), Switzerland

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Panel Discussion FoBBIZ
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
 

Special Format: Bridging research and implementation of Dual VET reforms

Chair(s): Mergim JAHIU (FoBBIZ / SFUVET), Erik Swars (Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training SFUVET)

Discussant(s): To be announced (_)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

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Date: Friday, 05/Sept/2025
8:30am
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9:30am
Keynote: Sandra Hupka - "The Consequences of Vocational Early Choices: Illustration based on Transitions from Education to Employment in Switzerland (TREE)"
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
10:40am
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12:10pm
Symposium 6
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
 

The Role of Transversal Competences for Successful School-to-Work Transitions: Insights and Interventions

Chair(s): Marina FIORI (SFUVET, Switzerland)

Discussant(s): Piera Gabola (Haute Ecole Pedagogique de Lausanne)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Navigating the School-to-Work Transition: the role of soft skills in a life-course perspective

Sandra D'Agostino
Istituto nazionale per l’analisi delle politiche pubbliche (Inapp)

 

The Socio-Emotional Profile of Apprentices in Healthcare and Social Work: Key Competences for Future Careers

Marina Fiori, Matilde Wenger, Yoann Favre
Haut Ecole Federal en Formation Professionnelle

 

The link between empathy and teaching styles in Swiss VET teachers

Matilde Wenger1, Jean-Louis Berger2, Marina Fiori1
1Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training, 2University of Fribourg

 

Becoming a Professional Learning Community: The Role of Transversal Skills in the Identity Development of Future Art Teachers

Mario Bottinelli1, Loredana Addimando2
1SUPSI, 2Pegaso University, Italy

12:10pm
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1:00pm
Best Paper Award & Closing Session
Location: Audience Hall (1216)

 
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