Own Academic Conferences
LELAM International TVET Conference 2024
4-5 April 2024
The LELAM International TVET Conference in April 2024 will mark the end of the LELAM project. The conference aims to provide a platform for leading scholars, practitioners, and policy makers to reflect and discuss the drivers of high-quality education and training and imoproving working conditions for youth, especially in developing countries. We invite contributions from economics and the social sciences that address the following topics:
-Factors encouraging the participation of youth in education
-Conditions enhancing decent work for youth
-The role of firms in improving education and skills for youth
-Firm incentives for providing decent work for youth
-Policies that improve access to quality secondary, tertiary education and vocational education and training
-Policies that improve working conditions for youth
-Policies linking education and labour markets
-Institutions and governance topics related to education and working conditions
-Success factors and barriers to education reforms
-Measuring the skills of youth in low-income countries
-Designing and implementing surveys measuring individual and firm outcomes
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Deeper links, stronger institutions, decent jobs - Building better TVET systems
15-16 September 2023, Dhulikhel, Kathmandu, Nepal
The challenges brought forward by a global pandemic and other humanitarian crises have once again shown the necessity of robust, sustainable and inclusive institutions. Investment in education and vocational skills increases the likelihood of youth finding productive and gainful work – a key element of inclusive growth. However, increasing participation and the quality of education does not directly result in decent employment. It is the match between the skills demanded in the labor market and those taught that leads to decent jobs. Moreover, education systems cannot operate in a vacuum: policies and institutions must support the utilization of newly acquired skills.
This conference, that will take place in September 15-16 in Nepal, aims to provide a platform for leading scholars, practitioners and policymakers to reflect and discuss the drivers of high-quality education and training and improving working conditions for youth in developing countries.
The conference website can be found external pagehere
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID 19 VIRUS: International Conference on Education and Decent Work for Youth: Call for Papers
Before the outbreak of the COVID19 virus, the Swiss Economic Institute KOF together with NADEL Center for Development Cooperation wanted hold the conference on June 4-5, 2020 at ETH Zurich. The aim of the international and interdisciplinary conference was to provide a platform for leading development scholars, practitioners and policy-makers to reflect on the determinants of improving education and the working conditions for youth in developing countries.
We invited contributions of scholars from economics, sociology and educational science.
Deadline for submissions was: March 1, 2020.
The conference web-site can be found external pagehere
International conference on TVET for Employment, Income, and Job Quality, 11&12 September 2019, Kathmandu, Nepal
The LELAM-TVET4Income project team Nepal organizes the project's first stakeholder conference. With the topic "TVET for Employment, Income, and Job Quality", the conference aims at interfacing distinguished TVET practitioners, policy makers, researchers and employers (industry).
The LELAM-TVET4Income project team Nepal organizes the project's first stakeholder conference aiming at interfacing distinguished TVET practitioners, policy makers, researchers and employer (industry) for the enhancement of the sector with the following specific objectives:
- To understand the dynamics of TVET particularly related to its contribution towards youth employment, income, and job quality
- To contribute for knowledge building on prominent aspects of TVET
- To share innovative practices and concepts of TVET theoretically and practically
- To highlight the challenges, constraints, opportunities for youth employment
- To share experiences on building and sharing TVET knowledge
- To provide a national/ international forum for TVET sector
- To strengthen a national/ international network of TVET sector
Conference Themes
The conference will have the main theme of TVET for Employment, Income, and Job Quality. Staying within this broad theme, the conference will have following sub-themes:
- Policy, planning, and practices
- Institutions and systems
- Governance and power sharing
- Financing and fund sharing
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Teaching and learning Quality, equity, and relevance
- National and international case studies
- Work, education, and training
- Occupations and occupational areas
- Development and TVET
- Sociology of TVET
- Inclusion in TVET
Deadlines & Link
Deadline for submission of abstracts: April 30, 2019
Abstracts for papers should not not contain more than 300-500 words, for posters not more than 150-250 words and workshop proposals not more than 500-600 words.