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Spring 2024

12 Mar 2024

Record par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on in CVET in Vienna

Career guidance and support services by waff were incre­a­sing­ly used in 2023. In a recent press con­fe­rence, waff repre­sen­ta­ti­ves and clients appeared together with Peter Hanke, City Councillor for Economic Affairs. Günter Hefler was invited as an expert.

12 Mar 2024

Towards zero long-term unemployment

A webinar organised by the ESF+ Community of Practice on Employment, Education and Skills puts the results of a recently published study on job gua­ran­tees up for discussion.

1 Mar 2024

Workshop: Future scenarios for CVET in 2040

In the Erasmus+ project “In-CVET 2040”, we are using the design fiction method to develop future scenarios for con­ti­nuing voca­tio­nal education and training and invite you to a trans­na­tio­nal stake­hol­der workshop.


Winter 2024–2023

14 Feb 2024

Criticism of dif­fe­ren­ces in the quality of traineeships

The European Court of Auditors cri­ti­cis­es the different con­di­ti­ons for trainees across the EU and refers to the eva­lua­ti­on of the related Council Recommendation.

2 Feb 2024

She Chef — We Chef?

As part of our Digifonds project on film in voca­tio­nal education, a film screening for students from the hos­pi­ta­li­ty and tourism sectors took place at Stadtkino Wien on 1 February.

30 Jan 2024

In memoriam Gerald Heidegger

3s was asso­cia­ted with Gerald Heidegger, Professor of Vocational Education at the Institute for Work and Technology (biat) at the Europa-University of Flensburg, for many years.

9 Jan 2024

#GetInvolved project got honored

Our Erasmus+ project to promote democracy and civic enga­ge­ment in voca­tio­nal education and training, which was completed in 2023, was reco­g­nis­ed as good practice.

21 Dec 2023

Lunch lectures on VET for adults and skill demand

Numerous exciting webinars took place in December as part of the Erasmus+ VET Team Austria’s Lunch Lectures. 3s was repre­sen­ted with two lectures.

13 Dec 2023

Green skills and future skills in online job advertisement

The Bertelsmann Foundation and the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training organised the OJA Forum in Berlin at the beginning of December. Stefan Humpl took part with a presentation.

19 Dec 2023

Validation of non-formal and informal learning in higher education

On 12 December, the 2nd symposium on “Orientation in a complex field” took place at the University for Continuing Education Krems. Karin Luomi-Messerer gave a lecture.


Autumn 2023

22 Nov 2023

Strengthening the inter­na­tio­nal coope­ra­ti­on on Vocational Excellence

From 9–10 November, the final con­fe­rence of the ETF project on ‘International Dimension of Centres of Vocational Excellence’ was held in Turin.

28 Nov 2023

3s is mourning for Ronald Sultana

Ronald Sultana, Professor of sociology of education at University of Malta and leading expert in the cross-country com­pa­ra­ti­ve research on career guidance for young people and adults has unex­pec­ted­ly passed away on November 23rd.