Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

 
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Session Overview
Date: Wednesday, 03/Sept/2025
10:00am Registration
Location: Reception Hall
11:30am Welcome Aperitif
Location: Reception Hall
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
-
3:05pm
Keynote: Jim Hordern - "Alternation models: different relationships between education and work"
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
3:05pm
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3:30pm
Coffee-Break
Location: Reception Hall
3:30pm
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5:00pm
Paper session 1A: Alternation - "Disabilities and integration measures"
Location: Room 2218
Paper Session 1B: Choice - "Reorientation, reforms and social bias in career choices"
Location: Room 2212
Paper Session 1C: Choice - "Gender I"
Location: Room 2420
Symposium 1
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
5:10pm
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6:40pm
Paper session 2A: Alternation - "Digital learning support tools"
Location: Room 2218
Paper session 2B: Transferability - "Public-private partnership"
Location: Room 2212
Paper session 2C: Choice - "Gender II"
Location: Room 2420
Symposium 2
Location: Audience Hall (1216)

Date: Thursday, 04/Sept/2025
8:00am Registration
Location: Reception Hall
8:30am
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10:00am
Paper session 3A: Transferability - "Transfering and implementing VET in several contexts I"
Location: Room 2218
Paper session 3B: Choice - "Educational aspirations"
Location: Room 2212
Paper session 3C: Alternation - "On-the-job training perspectives: International perspectives on the institutional level"
Location: Room 2420
Symposium 3
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
10:00am
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10:25am
Coffee-Break
Location: Reception Hall
10:25am
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11:55am
Paper session 4A: Transferability - "Cross-System Comparisons"
Location: Room 2218
Paper session 4B: Choice - "Trajectories & transitions"
Location: Room 2212
Paper session 4C: Alternation - "Technological applications"
Location: Room 2420
Symposium 4
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
12:00pm
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1:15pm
Lunch
Location: Reception Hall
1:15pm
-
2:15pm
Keynote: Fernando Marhuenda - "Putting on hold the transferability of dual training systems"
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
2:15pm
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2:30pm
Coffee-Break
Location: Reception Hall
2:30pm
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4:00pm
Paper session 5A: Choice - "Needs and other influencing factors in career choice"
Location: Room 2218
Paper session 5B: Alternation - "Drop out"
Location: Room 2212
Symposium FoBBIZ
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
 
4:00pm
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5:30pm
Paper session 5D: Choice - "Impact of COVID19"
Location: Room 2218
Paper session 5C: Alternation - "Teaching and learning challenges in dual VET"
Location: Room 2420
Panel Discussion FoBBIZ
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
 
6:00pm City Tour
Location: Lausanne
8:00pm Congress Dinner
Location: Lausanne

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)
9:30am
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10:15am
Poster session
Location: Reception Hall
10:15am
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10:40am
Coffee-Break
Location: Reception Hall
10:40am
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12:10pm
Paper session 6A: Transferability - "Transfering and implementing VET in several contexts II"
Location: Room 2218
Paper session 6B: Alternation - "Effects of VET reforms"
Location: Room 2212
Paper session 6C: Choice - "Environmental concern and sustainability in education: impact on aspirations"
Location: Room 2420
Symposium 6
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
12:10pm
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1:00pm
Best Paper Award & Closing Session
Location: Audience Hall (1216)
1:00pm Lunch
Location: Reception Hall