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Vocational Training in Research and Practice

The journal reports on research findings and practical experience with issues from vocational education and training, thus fostering an exchange between education research, day-to-day education practice and education policy.

Current issue

European transparency instruments (BWP 2/2025)

Coverbild: BWP 2/2025

Transparency plays a major role in helping to shape a European Education Area. Its purpose is to facilitate communication between the various national education systems without standardising them.
The aims of this issue of BWP are to consider these different instruments and the context in which they have emerged and to reflect upon their relevance for vocational education and training at a national and European level.

Editorial


Special Focus

Isabelle Le Mouillour; Andrea Mohoric; Daniel Neff

Transparency instruments - their contribution towards the establishment of a European Education Area


Vasileios Symeonidis; Zelda Azzarà

Transparency and transferability of learning outcomes

Expert assessments on the influence of EU policy initiatives at national level

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Franziska Bopp

The Europass – an interface and a catalyst in the European Education Area


Heiko Weber; Wolfgang Wittig

A mission for transparency – the alignment of non-formal qualifications to the DQR


Karin Luomi-Messerer; Sabine Tritscher-Archan

The NQF in Austria – is the glass half-full or half-empty?


Judith Proinger; Thomas Nárosy; Alexander Schmölz

From DigComp to a National Framework of Reference for Digital Competence for Austria


Frederike G.S. Jansen; Tijs Pijls; Hanneke Smit-Toet

The NLQF: Driving the convergence of the formal and non-formal education sectors

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Jens Bjørnåvold; Ernesto Villalba-Garcia

The need to move beyond transparency of qualifications

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Christopher Winch

From labour market to educational system: the case of ESCO

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Hannelore Mottweiler; Silvia Annen

What is the significance of ESCO for vocational education and training?

A country comparison between Germany and Ireland


Roberto Angotti; Alessandra Pedone

Microlearning and microcredentials in Italy: Strengthening workforce development and transparency

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From research and practice

Normann Müller; Anne Caspers

Why nursing institutions opt not to provide training


Christina Lange; Volker Rexing; Christian Efing

The BauliG app – a digital tool to support the language development of trainees in the occupational field of construction engineering


Occupations

Thomas Felkl

Facility management – a new training occupation?


Profile of an occupation – saddler