Margarita Langthaler is a researcher in the field of education and development. In her work, she focuses on education and TVET strategies in the context of development cooperation, on TVET and skills development, on global education policies as well as on education for sustainable development. She is a political scientists and philologist by training and has been a researcher at ÖFSE since 2003. She carries out research and consulting projects for public and private institutions and regularly lectures and teaches on her topics. She also conceives and facilitates dialogue and training events.

Research Areas:

• Global education policies
• Education strategies in development cooperation
• Vocational education and skills development
• Education and sustainable development

Career

• Austrian Research Foundation for International Development (since 2003)
• OPEC Fund for International Development (2000 - 2003)
• Teaching at public and public schools in Perugia and Florence, Italy (1996 - 2000)

Research stays

• Field research in Kenya and Ethiopia in connection with the AQUAHUB project (2022, 2023)
• Oman: Vocational education and training systems in the context of "Oman's Vision 2040" (2022)
• Oman: Vocational education and industrialisation (2018, 2019)
• Fellowship at the University of Bristol, Graduate School of Education, Centre for Globalisation, Education and Societies (2012)
• Several research stays in Venezuela (2005-2009)

Teaching experience
Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna

Activities

• Member of the Advisory Board "Transformative Education" of the Austrian Unesco Commission (until 2022)
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Paulo Freire Centre
• Member of the Dual Apprenticeship International Advisory Committee of the University of Glasgow

Education

• PhD in Political Science at the University of Vienna (2017)
• Academic course “German as a foreign language – theory and practice” at the University of Kassel (2005)
• MA in Romanic and Slavic Philology, University of Vienna (1996)