VET Congress 2011 

Beginning: 3/23/2011 8:00 AM 
End 3/25/2011 5:00 PM 
City SFIVET Zollikofen 

Vocational Education and Training Challenges: Developing Skills and Competences for the Future

Vocational education and training (VET) systems currently face numerous challenges: changing labour market requirements, newly developed occupational profiles, a predicted lack of specialists within some occupations, unemployment, demands for greater integration of certain disadvantaged groups, demands for greater equity, lifelong learning and so on. These challenges also affect VET teaching, training and learning processes: how should they be designed in order to meet these challenges?

Devoted to the theme “VET Challenges: Developing Skills and Competences for the Future”, this conference seeks to make a contribution to these topics and provide an overview of VET research activities in Switzerland and other countries. It is also intended to facilitate academic exchanges between leading institutions and present the latest international research findings.  

VET Congress 2011