Projects of Research and Development

The basic idea for this project is to help the INFPC to build its own evaluation capacities so that INFPC staff will have the solid evaluation expertise needed to develop and introduce an ev... More information

Working under a mandate given by the Fédération vaudoise des jeunesses campagnardes (FVJC), researchers for SFIVET’s “Learning outcomes” research field will firstly attempt to identify what... More information

This project addresses the question of whether the concept of competence-based vocational education and training, as it is defined in Western Europe, is transferable from one cultural contex... More information

Feedback from various schools shows time and time again that “applied mathematics” “generates” a great need for support measures. More information

A metacognitive training approach to support occupation-specific learning of car mechanic trainees in industry courses of the new two-year VET programmes in Switzerland is designed and evalu... More information

Adult advisory services often include dimensions related to anticipation of future developments for beneficiaries and professionals in this field. For beneficiaries this involves establishin... More information

FLin€VET aims to advance the development of a sustained and shared framework of Financial Literacy in the context of European Vocational Education and Training. More information

The main aim of this partnership is to develop a greater understanding of the challenges and potential of connectivity, which is defined here as the coordination of training content between ... More information

The State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) commissioned the Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training SFIVET to develop a monitoring concept with... More information

The State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) commissioned the Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (SFIVET) to assess the economic impact of s... More information

Scuolavisione is a project of the Vocational Education and Training Division in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training and the Radiotelevisione ... More information

From 2007 to 2010, the Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology (OPET) and the University of Applied Sciences of Special Needs Education sponsored a Swiss-wide study of the e... More information

The Swiss Science and Technology Council (SSTC) asked the Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training SFIVET to conduct an expert study to analyse and assess the Swiss pro... More information

In order to understand the current situation of VET in Switzerland, it is (often) essential to look at its evolution over time. In its current institutional form, our VET system has develope... More information

Commissioned by the Canton of Zurich’s Office for General and Vocational Education, this project focuses on all young people who prematurely terminated their apprenticeship contract in the C... More information

The primary aim of the I-VET project is to improve the skills of VET professionals in the handling of intercultural dynamics. More information

Following the Leonardo-Observal project, a decision was reached to use the data gathered at the Observatory. This led to the Observal-Net project, which is sponsored by the EU's Lifelong Lea... More information

A central problem in the training of apprentices is that school tends to be too theoretical and apprentices are not able to transfer the examples to their practice. At the workplace, apprent... More information

This project aims at exploring the potential of light portable ICT devices 1. to help apprentices to capture meaningful experiences at the workplace and to store them in an electronic portfo... More information

Considering that vocational training involves mastering numerous professional procedures, in order to carry on a procedure accurately, a practitioner should not only master the sequence of s... More information

By order of the Swiss Federal Council, the regulation costs associated with the Swiss system of vocational education and training have been estimated for the first time. The results, rec-ord... More information

A special issue of the French journal “Education permanente” is intended as an extension of the Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) programme “conseil et accompagnement à la reconnaissance... More information

National guidelines on the inclusion of general education in VPL procedures for VET programmes have been implemented in the cantons in recent years. SFIVET guides and analyses this process w... More information

Conducted by the Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (SFIVET) and OdASanté, the study "Career decisions of students upon completion of their VET programme in health... More information

The present study was commissioned by the “Berner Bildungszentrum Pflege”. It seeks to identify the factors determining the career choices of holders of the Federal VET Diploma in health car... More information