Education and Training
The broad field of education and training includes initial education, classical apprenticeship training, supplementary education (in the context of education and training until the age of 18 such as inter-enterprise apprenticeship training), tertiary education and (vocational) lifelong training.
Within this field, research activities of L&R Social Research focus on vocational aspects of education and training as well as the integration of youth and young adults into the labour market upon graduation.
Additional topics included in this research area are:
- evaluation of approaches in compensating disadvantages in the labour market incurred by specific groups via training and education
- operational qualification needs of employers and enterprise perspectives
- effects of funding programmes concerning specific qualifications on participant careers
- changes in requirements regarding qualification and training in the context of digitalisation
Besides evaluating programmes and exploring training needs, L&R Social Research creates different development and consulting projects such as the development of Labour Foundations.
Recent Projects on this topic
- Follow-up evaluation of the “Digital Überall” workshops
- Smombie (“Smartphone Zombie) in the Fake News Bubble? Digital Participation and Critical Media Competence of (Educationally) Disadvantaged Young People
- Making Ends Meet During Unemployment
- Evaluation of Qualification Pass Vienna
- Opportunities and limitations of successful labour market integration of the long-term unemployed
- Compilation of figures, data and facts on the topic of gender equality in Austria
- Contribution with impact: Participation of employees in elementary ecudation
- Evaluation of the workshops within the framework of the “Digital Skills for All” initiative
- Monitoring Evaluation of the Training Initiative for Working Women 2023
- Establishment of a Competence Centre for Social Innovation
- EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) – People and Skills
- Evaluation TrainingFit (AFit) and pre-Module
- ELEMeNT – Elementary Educators Learning the Development of Media with New Technologies
- Upgrade Labor Market Policy Moldova
Completed Projects
- #DigiKiga – ‘Martsmond’
- ESF implementation concept ‘gender equality’ within ESF-OP 2014-2020
- ESF funding concept ‘active and healthy aging’
- ResilianceWorks – Measures to Prevent Radicalization and Increase the Resilience of Young People in Programs for Labour Market Integration
- Effects on gender equality of services of the Public Employment Service Austria
- Educational and career choices of young women: MINT (STEM) the Gap!
- Company Survey as part of the “DigiUP4.0” Project
- The EU Mutual Learning Programme in Gender Equality on Artificial Intelligence and Gender Biases in Recruitment and Selection Processes
- DIGI-O: Offensive for New Work through Digitization in the Austrian-Hungarian Border Region
- Overview of Support Services for Skilled Workers in Vienna
- Equal opportunities for women with disabilities on the labour market. Obstacles – Challenges – Solutions
- Login Instead of Logout – Focus on Mature Workforce and Digitalisation
- Accompanying Evaluation U25 – Viennese Youth Support
- Labour Supply and Demand in Vienna as well as Sector Portraits on the Skilled Labour Situation
- Industry Spotlight on Educational Offers of Austrian Standards
- Evaluation of the Employment Careers of Female FiT Graduates (“Women in Crafts and Technology”) in Austria
- Evaluation of the Counselling and Care Facilities in Burgenland
- DigiTyps – De-stereotyping of Job Profiles and Training Concepts in the Digital Transformation
- Evaluation of the Contact Points for People with Qualifications Gained Abroad during the Period 2017-2020
- Evaluation of the Project ‘Individual Study Support for Students with Impairments’ (ISU)
- Education Location Southwest Styria: Regional Optimization of the Job Orientation Process
- Follow-up Evaluation of the ‘Promotion 2.0’ – VHS Learning Support at Schools of Vienna
- Evaluation of the grant for skilled employees
- The ‘Digi-Winner’ Promotion and Perspectives of the Continuing Education Market in Vienna
- Transnational Network within the EQUAL development partnership “Third Sector Vienna”
- EQUAL Development Partnership: Space!lab
- Evaluation of the EQUAL-project “Telelearning for imprisoned people (TELFI)”
- Lecture at the 7th Vocational Training Research Conference (BBFK) on the Topic of Digitalisation from a Gender Perspective
- Labour Foundations in South-East Europe – Needs and Implementation Options
- Evaluation of the Contact Points for People with Qualifications Gained Abroad during the Period 2013-2016
- Baseline study: persons with disabilities in Vienna
- Employment effects of the experimental labour-market policies in the 1980s and 1990s. A socio-historical analysis and conclusions for today
- Evaluation of the regional goal 2018: Additional apprenticeships on the labour market Burgenland
- Employment and personal circumstances of film-makers in Austria
- Educational Situation of Young Women in Trades and Technical Vocations
- Evaluation of the ‘Promotion 2.0’ – VHS learning support at schools of Vienna
- Study on the sustainability of the business start-up program offered by the PES in Lower Austria
- Work 4.0, Education and Qualification: Challenges and Solutions
- Evaluation ‘Early Complete – Management of qualifications’
- Evaluation of the project ‘Start-up Modul’ of the Vienna Business Agency
- Accompanying Evaluation “Start Wien – Das Jugendcollege”
- danube@work
- Digital Transformation in Burgenland. Analysis of qualification needs in chosen sectors
- Gender Mainstreaming within the FTI-strategy? Innovative Vienna 2020?
- Study about the combination of technology and educational transition
- Evaluation of Outplacement Foundations in Vienna focusing on a successful re-integration into the labour market
- Building Capacities in the Danube Region
- Study of the financial impact of the unification of law concerning the continued payment of wages in case of incapacity to work due to illness, accident at work or occupational disease
- European Employment Policy Observatory – SYSDEM Expert
- Skills forecasting –reverting negative trends in skills and jobs matching