Conference Agenda

Session Overview

Date: Wednesday, 03/Sept/2025
10:00am	Registration Location: Reception Hall
11:30am	Welcome Aperitif Location: Reception Hall
12:30pm - 1:00pm	Welcome & Opening Location: Audience Hall (1216)
1:00pm - 2:00pm	Keynote: Stephanie Matseleng Allais - "Does public VET have a future? Reflections from Africa" Location: Audience Hall (1216)
2:00pm - 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 - 3:30pm	Coffee-Break Location: Reception Hall
3:30pm - 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 - 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 - 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 - 10:25am	Coffee-Break Location: Reception Hall
10:25am - 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 - 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 - 2:30pm	Coffee-Break Location: Reception Hall
2:30pm - 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 - 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 - 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 - 10:15am	Poster session Location: Reception Hall
10:15am - 10:40am	Coffee-Break Location: Reception Hall
10:40am - 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 - 1:00pm	Best Paper Award & Closing Session Location: Audience Hall (1216)
1:00pm	Lunch Location: Reception Hall