As Europe seeks to make qualifications and skills more portable across borders, digitalised and trusted information and effective recognition and validation arrangements are essential. This webinar provides and overview of recent developments connected to digital tools (qualifications databases and digital credentials) as well as recognition and validation of VET qualifications.

Wolfgang Alteneder und Michael Schwingsmehl von Synthesis Forschung widmen sich beim AMS-Werkstattgespräch am 9. Dezember 2026 Fragen zu folgenden Themen:

• Prognose der Wirtschafts- und Arbeitsmarktentwicklung 2026/27: Fragile Konjunkturerholung in einem schwierigen geopolitischen Umfeld
• Demografie und Arbeitskräfteknappheit in einem (inter-)nationalen Kontext: Quantifizierung der Beschäftigungspotenziale anhand inländischer Referenzwerte

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The conference invites researchers and advanced graduate students worldwide to submit papers, posters, and symposia related to extended education. It focuses on diversity, equality, and inclusion within extended educational contexts such as after-school programmes, extracurricular activities, and community-based learning. It aims to explore how these settings can support children’s learning, development, participation, and social cohesion, particularly in increasingly diverse societies. The concept of “superdiversity”, discussed by Steven Vertovec, provides an important theoretical perspective for examining social diversity and educational practices. The Call for Participation (CfP) is seeking submissions on educational equity, inclusion and diversity in the context of extended education. The focus is on effective approaches to equal opportunities, gender-sensitive pedagogy and anti-discrimination with reference to the above mentioned educational settings. In addition, strategies for youth participation, for professionalising teams in diversity competence in these educational settings and interdisciplinary approaches to tackling school absenteeism will be addresses, with a view to sustainably strengthening participation and social cohesion. Key topics also include the role of funds of knowledge in supporting children’s participation in extended education, the development of inclusive structures in extended education, civic education, collaboration between extended education, schools and families, multilingual learning environments in extended education, partnerships with NGOs, and the ways in which social inequalities are produced or transformed in contexts of extended education. Submissions must include an abstract of up to 400 word ins English. The submission period runs from 7^th September 2026 to 15^th January 2027.

The joint annual conference of DeGEval and SEVAL, to be held from 22 to 24 September 2027 in Freiburg (i. Br.), will focus on the theme of ‘AI and Evaluation’. The conference will provide a forum for discussing the following questions, amongst others:

• How does AI affect evaluation processes, the professionalisation of evaluation and evaluation standards?
• What myths surround AI applications (e.g. regarding resource savings)?
• What insights are there regarding the intended and unintended consequences of using AI in evaluations?
• What ethical issues arise from the use of AI in evaluations?
• What does AI-supported work in evaluation projects look like, and what forms of interaction are employed (ranging from ‘human-in-the-loop’ to evaluative AI that assesses other AI applications)?
• To what extent have AI applications changed the expectations of clients and evaluators?
• What theoretical concepts are used to integrate AI applications and people in evaluation contexts?

The German Evaluation Society (DeGEval) invites you to take part in the discussion in Freiburg and to submit papers for the annual conference online from now until 9 March 2027. Papers may be submitted in German, English or French.

The conference explores the making and remaking of apprenticeships as a global historical phenomenon, tracing how pre-industrial craft training evolved under industrialisation, state-building, and changing educational ideas. It focuses both on institutional change and on the lived experiences of apprentices, masters, and other actors, and invites contributions from all periods and world regions.

Wie können Hochschulen ihren wissenschaftlichen Anspruch wahren und zugleich gesellschaftliche Verantwortung übernehmen? Die Jahrestagung 2027 lädt zur gemeinsamen Analyse, Selbstreflexion und Diskussion an die Universität Klagenfurt ein.

In Zeiten zunehmender Polarisierung, erstarkenden Populismus und wachsender Anfeindungen gegenüber Wissenschaft wird das Verhältnis von Hochschule und Demokratie brüchiger – und damit neu erklärungs- und gestaltungsbedürftig.

Die Tagung fragt nach den institutionellen, strukturellen und individuellen Voraussetzungen, unter denen Hochschulen wissenschaftliche Qualität sichern, demokratische Kulturen stärken und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung übernehmen können. Dazu gehören chancengerechte Zugänge zur Hochschulbildung ebenso wie der Schutz akademischer Freiheit, demokratische Governance, Wissenschaftskommunikation und politische Bildung. Am 17.03.2027 findet der HoFoNa-Tag statt. Am 18.03.2027 beginnt die Haupttagung; am Abend folgen die Mitgliederversammlung sowie die Verleihung des Ulrich-Teichler-Preises.