Reflecting on the future of CVET with design fiction

Artificial intel­li­gence, robots, virtual reality… How will these new tech­no­lo­gies change the way we work and learn? What are the long-term trends for CVET? And what does this mean for dealing with the chal­lenges of the green and digital “double tran­si­ti­on”? We are approa­ching all these questions in the Erasmus+ project “Into-CVET 2040” with an inno­va­ti­ve approach that aims to stimulate a debate among key national and regional stake­hol­ders about what future deve­lo­p­ments seem possible, but also desirable.

The “design fiction” approach is used to develop future scenarios for various aspects of CVET, such as lifelong guidance or funding. Design fiction is a method of pro­jec­ting the future that empha­sis­es the immersive character of fiction and its ability to make future changes credible over a longer period of time. It differs signi­fi­cant­ly from other scenario methods that are usually used in foresight studies. The view is thus broader and makes it possible to look beyond existing pre­dic­tions for initial voca­tio­nal education and training and also consider CVET, to focus on the dimension of the double tran­si­ti­on and to consider the role of internal factors for the deve­lo­p­ment of CVET in addition to external factors.

Five scenarios will be selected from a longer list of outlined scenarios and presented and discussed in workshops with stake­hol­ders from the project partner countries Austria, France and Luxembourg. Based on the feedback, the scenarios will be further refined and visua­li­sed in a vision of a possible future using fictional nar­ra­ti­ves and illu­stra­ted with graphic elements. The materials produced in this project are intended to invite further dialogue.