Provided by Christian Imdorf, Leibniz University Hannover & Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, member of VETNET.

The papers will be part of a thematic issue of the European Journal of Social Sciences. In the context of demographic change and accelerating technological, societal, sustainability-oriented and economic transformations, a central question is how VET systems can contribute to finding sustainable solutions to these challenges while continuing to fulfil their core functions of fostering social integration and participation, providing a skilled labour supply for a dynamic, rapidly changing labour market, and attracting young people to vocational pathways. To meet these challenges, we need deeper insights into how VET systems are constituted and how they develop over time. This requires a comparative analysis of VET. The aim of this thematic issue is to further develop the theoretical and methodological approaches to comparing VET at different levels of analysis. More information here.