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How does informal learning at the workplace work? A SFUVET study provides detailed information about individual informal learning strategies at host companies.

The study examines the structures of vocational education and training in New Zealand and the attitudes of the business community towards their design.

Today, career guidance is also offered with the help of digital media. A new SFUVET-BeLEARN project is investigating how young people use them and what effect they have.

BeLEARN VR is a project on the affordances and effects of immersive virtual reality (IVR) to support learning in different fields of vocational education and training.

SFUVET has scientifically accompanied the "Friendly Work Space Apprentice" offer of Health Promotion Switzerland from 2019 to 2022 and has shown that it is well assessed and actively used.

The goal of the current project is to better understand the role of talent and giftedness in vocational education and training so as to discuss at the end of the project some initiatives that may ...

Learning to manage stress in work contexts is essential for novices, who may experience high levels of stress in new working situations. The objective of this study is to investigate psycho-physio ...

The research project «Short- and long-term impacts of Covid-19 on VET: Strengthening VET in times of crises» aims to explore the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on dual-track VET in Switzerland.

The legal basis for the recognition of prior learning exists in Switzerland. However, there is a lack of transparency on how RPL is actually implemented, especially at the tertiary level. This stu ...

The Indian Embassy in Bern wants to understand in details about the unique aspects of Swiss education system and especially the determinants of success of dual vocational education and training. A ...

Presentation of the publication “Educational Technologies for Vocational Training. Experiences as Digital Clay” which sums up 15 years of research on technology for VET.

Prof. Dr. Lukas Graf has been appointed the new head of the Swiss Observatory for Vocational Education and Training OBS SFUVET and will take up his position on 1 April 2023.

The project investigates for the German-speaking part of Switzerland for which jobs graduates with different educational qualifications (e.g. VET, professional education, university diplomas) are ...

Germany will require far more skilled workers than are currently available if it is to tackle the challenges facing society today - digitalisation, the energy transition, climate change and sustai ...

At the end of August 2022, research scholars, teachers, trainers, and educators gathered in Palermo, Italy, for the 8th edition of the International Congress on Emotional Intelligence. This congre ...

What role do learning technologies play in strengthening vocational education and training? This question is at the heart of the book published by a team of researchers from SFUVET, EPFL and Unive ...

Top Ausbildungsbetriebe (TAB) awarded this mandate to SFUVET for the purpose of collecting data about the situation and continuing training needs of workplace trainers in three linguistic regions ...

Versatile skills are playing an increasingly important role in a rapidly changing world of employment. Acquiring such skills is not only a key priority for apprentices in vocational education and ...

The «Young Insurance Professional» training programme run by the Swiss Insurance Training Association (VBV) is slated to undergo revision. SFUVET’s Evaluation Unit was commissioned by the VBV to c ...

LIFT (in German: 'Leistungsfähig durch individuelle Förderung und praktische Tätigkeit') is a national integration and prevention project for young people that focuses on the transition from lower ...

Segment mobility of holders of vocational and professional qualifications is crucial to ensure the availability of skilled workers. A new publication by the Swiss Observatory for Vocational Educat ...

On behalf of the canton of Vaud, SFUVET researchers have studied how apprentice advisers supported apprentices with social and personal issues. The report highlights the challenges apprentice advi ...

Florinda Sauli’s dissertation project identified factors relating to the quality of vocational education and training (VET) in the view of various actors. This covers both formal aspects, such as ...

Multimedia learning theory and Immersive principle: importance of immersion as a means of facilitating vocational education and training

The proportion of Federal Vocational Baccalaureate holders as well as admission regulations to vocational baccalaureate school vary considerably between Swiss cantons. A new publication by the Swi ...