Papers and symposia presentations will be organised according to the following domains:
1. Quality of teaching and learning in VET
- What are important aspects or components of quality in VET and how can they be assessed?
- How to model, develop and improve competences of vocational teachers and trainers?
- How to deal with diversity at vocational school and at the workplace?
- Expertise, professionality and sovereignity – toward new concepts.
- How does professional identity develop over time and what are the relevant influences?
- Trainers’ conceptions of teaching and the quality of work place learning.
2. Economics of VET
- Efficiency and equity of VET outcomes?
- The financing of VET?
- Training models in firms?
- Productivity effects and returns to VET for firms and individuals?
3. Transition
- Is the compulsory schooling system successful at efficiently allocating students in the different subsequent educational tracks?
- What are the determinants of undertaking academic and vocational education?
- What are the determinants of VET drop-outs?
- How does vocational education translate into youth labour market performances?
4. Technology supported learning in VET
- Differences in the use of learning technologies in general education and in VET?
- Can technology help connecting the school and the workplace?
- Can technology help sharing experiences among apprentices working in different contexts?
- How can professional competences be fostered by learning technologies?
5. Characteristics and development of VET systems
- What systemic factors characterize VET in a dual and in a school-based system?
- How does VET interact with other educational and training systems?
- How do different VET systems interact with and react to developments of the labor market and to sociodemographic tendencies?
- How are innovations in VET initiated and regulated?