Home Research & Consulting Education and Development The Sustainable Development Goals, Education for All and Inequality in Education The Sustainable Development Goals, Education for All and Inequality in Education "Education for All" has been an international development for many decades. The UNESCO-led " Education for All " initiative and the Millennium Development Goal 2 endeavoured to achieve [...]

Home Research & Consulting Education and Development Education and Development Promoting education has been a priority field of intervention since the beginning of international development cooperation after the Second World War. On the one hand, access to education is a human right; on the other, education is seen as an important instrument for achieving poverty reduction, economic development, [...]

Home Research & Consulting Education and Development Vocational Education and Skills Development Vocational Education and Skills Development After decades of neglect as a field of intervention in international development cooperation, vocational education and training (VET) has been experiencing a renaissance in recent years. The reasons for this are high youth unemployment , the realisation that [...]

Home About Us Staff Research Department Margarita Langthaler Dr. Margarita Langthaler Senior Researcher phone: +43 1 317 40 10 – 112 m.langthaler@oefse.at 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 [...]

Home Research & Consulting Education and Development Promoting Networking of Educational Research in Austria Promoting Networking of Educational Research in Austria ÖFSE participates in various Austrian and international networking initiatives on the topic of education and contributes to studies and publications in this context. In Austria, for example, this includes the Transformative Education [...]

Home Education & Awareness Educational Projects Educational Projects Together with our partners throughout Austria and the EU, ÖFSE implements projects in the field of global citizenship and transformative education. The target group of our projects includes first and foremost teachers, students and young people, and involves furthermore a diverse group of actors and multipliers in the field of [...]