Vocational education and the labour market: results from the AIVET project
Ch. As. Prof. Dr. Svetlomir Zdravkov, Faculty of Physics – BAS, will present the final results of the AIVET project, in which teams from Sofia, Barcelona and Vienna participate.
Between 2024 and 2026, the project tracked what happens to vocational graduates and how employers assess their skills. The presentation covers three outcomes: a comparative study of the transition from education to work, based on interviews with graduates in the three cities; research on the point of view of employers from the construction and energy, healthcare, IT sector and tourism; and a free tool for working with administrative data, which checks its quality and at the same time allows analysis: from descriptive distributions to regression models. The tool will be demonstrated on real registers.
For the experts in the institutions, the event is an opportunity to see how errors and inconsistencies are detected in their own data and how analytical conclusions are drawn from the same data, without additional software and costs. For the researchers, it is an occasion to compare the Bulgarian case with two different European models and to discuss the methodology.
The second part of the event is a discussion on the applicability of these approaches in Bulgaria.
The presentations will be in English and the discussion in Bulgarian.
Venue: IFS-BAS, ul. 4 Serdika Street, Sofia, and online via Zoom
Participation: free of charge, with registration