Partnership

Warsaw School of Economics (SGH)  is the lead partner of the TRACK-VET project.SGH is the oldest university of economics in Poland and one of the leading universities of economics in Europe. SGH was founded in 1906 as the first public university of economics and management in Poland. It...
Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research is an independent research foundation, which conducts social science and research on a wide area of working life and welfare state issues. Research on industrial relations issues is a core area, along with social policy, lifelong learning, enterprise...
The Austrian Institute for Research on Vocational Training (Oeibf) is a non-university research institute. Oeibf's mission is to carry out high-quality research and development in order to support and promote activities and policies concerning vocational education and training (VET). In its work it...
The French Centre for Research on Qualifications (Céreq) is a public institution acting under the aegis of both the Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministry for Work, Employment and Health. The Centre provides advice and proposals aimed atsupporting decision-making in the area of...
The National Institute for Certified Educational Measurements (NUCEM) is a state-run organisation with legal personality founded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic. Currently, in 2017, NUCEM has 43 internal employees.NUCEM acts as a national...
Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica is a public university and a member of the European University Association. The university provides both high quality university study and further education by encouraging creative scientific and artistic research. Knowledge is advanced whilst combining the...
National Centre for Education (VISC) is a public administration body responsible for implementation of general and vocational education policy on a national level. VISC develops curricula for IVET, CVET, in-service vocational education and training and vocation oriented education, as well as...

Warsaw School of Economics (Poland) – SGH

Horacy Dębowski is a Vice-director of the Central Examination Board in Poland and a member of the European Qualifications Framework Advisory Group (EQF AG).  He is a research...

Ewa Chmielecka is a Professor at Warsaw School of Economics and former expert at the Educational Research Institute (IBE).  She has extensive national and international...

Wojciech Stęchły is a Ph.D. candidate at Warsaw School of Economics and senior expert in the NQF project at Educational Research Institute. He specialises in VET qualifications...

Jakub Brdulak is an Associate Professor, Head of Knowledge Management Research Unit at Warsaw School of Economics. He is a member of the Polish Accreditation Committee, main...

Jacek Lewicki is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Development of Economic Education (ORSE) of the Warsaw School of Economics. PhD in social sciences (Jagiellonian...

Katarzyna Matuszczak is a research assistant and Ph.D. candidate at Warsaw School of Economics. She holds MA in International Relations from SGH. She is a senior researcher at...

Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research (Norway) – Fafo


Kaja Reegård  received her doctoral degree from the Department of Sociology at the University of Bergen, Norway. The thesis addressed the weakly established vocational...

French Centre for Research on Qualifications (France) – Céreq

Patrick Veneau is a sociologist, researcher at the Education, Training and Certification Department.  He is an expert of certification issues.  His expertise includes the...

Josiane Paddeu is a sociologist, researcher at the Education, Training and Certification Department. She carries out researches on the French system of qualifications, for...

Since 2016 Françoise Kogut  is a head of mission for national partnership. She has a strong experience in carrying out studies on competences and professions analysis,...

Matteo Sgarzi is a head of the International Relations at CEREQ. He studied at the University of Bologna (Italy) holding a Master Degree in Political Sciences and International...

Matej Bel University Banská Bystrica (Slovakia) – UMB

Petra Fridrichova is currently a researcher of the Educational Research Center, Faculty of Education UMB. She was general director of National Institute of Education. She is...

Alena Tomengová  has years of experience in education, directly as a teacher in vocational schools, in-service teacher trainer, but also as an co-author and/or implementer of...

Štefan Porubský is a Head of the Educational Research Center and Dean of the Faculty of Education UMB. He is a member of the international editorial board of Orbis Scholae (...

National Centre for Education (Latvia) – VISC

Rūta Gintaute-Marihina is a head of Vocational Education Curriculum Development Unit. The Unit develops curricula for initial, continuing and in-service vocational education...

Ruta Ančupāne is the head of Vocational Education Examination Unit.  The unit is responsible for coordination of development of centralized vocational qualification exams for...

Līvija Zeiberte is a curriculum expert in VET.  She holds PhD in Education Management and Masters degrees in Arts and Philosophy.  Her expertise also includes evaluation of...

Inta Baranovska is a VISC project manager. She has a solid theoretical knowledge and a strong practical experience in project management and administration and excellent...

National Institute for Certified Educational Measurements (Slovakia) – NUCEM

Romana Kanovská is a director of NUCEM since 2008, except for the period from March 2015 to March 2016, when she was appointed the State Secretary of the Ministry of Education...

Andrea Galádová is a researcher and Head of the International measurements at NUCEM. She successfully manages and directs all international measurements at Slovak schools. She...

Austrian Institute for Research on Vocational Training (Austria) – Oeibf

Norbert Lachmayr is a Sociologist, Researcher, Project Manager at öibf since 3/2003. His main topics are: disadvantaged groups in the education system and the job market;...

Judith Proinger is a Sociologist and Researcher at öibf since 1/2007. Her main research topics are: quality assurance and development in VET, vocational education and training...