Centre for the Development of Occupations

The Centre for the Development of Occupations advises and accompanies professional organisations, examination bodies, cantons and schools. We support the VET partners in the new and further development of professions, the digital transformation and individual concerns within vocational education and training.

What we do

  • Provide advice, guidance and support to professional organisations and examination bodies for all stages of development of education and training both within the VET and professional education sectors
  • Provide practice-based services, tailored to suit the needs of professional organisations or sponsoring institutions
  • Encourage the operationalisation of professional competences at all learning locations

What you can expect from us

  • Considerable experience in various economic branches
  • Flexibility
  • Development and implementation of targeted project-based solutions
  • Expertise in methodology and vocational pedagogy.
  • Appropriate research-based and field-tested instruments
  • Extensive network within the Swiss VPET system
  • A strategic and systemic approach at a national level
  • Regional expertise in the German-, French- and Italian-speaking regions of Switzerland
  • Participatory and resource-oriented approach based on your experiences