Despite SDG target 8.7 aiming to eliminate child labour by 2025, 137.6 million children remain affected worldwide, highlighting the urgent need for action. Effective approaches go beyond prohibition, addressing root causes through social protection, education, decent work, and childcare systems, supported by social dialogue with affected communities, including the voices of affected children. This [...]

This chapter draws on political economy and comparative educationalist literatures to further an understanding of dual systems of vocational education and training (VET) as essentially shaped by the particular socioeconomic relations of their countries of origin. In the case of German-speaking countries, this points to a complex web of negotiation processes between government, employers and [...]

Home Bildung & Vermittlung Bildungsprojekte It`s Up to You! Deine Stadt, deine Entscheidung It`s Up to You! Deine Stadt, deine Entscheidung – Die Vienna City Labs Wiener Jugendliche gestalten Demokratie Damit Jugendliche in einer komplexen Welt ihren Platz finden, brauchen sie gute politische Bildung und echte Möglichkeiten, mitzugestalten. Besonders Jugendliche, die oft ausgeschlossen werden – [...]

After some 20 years, the negotiations on the EU Mercosur Association Agreement (EUMAA) were concluded in June 2019. Due to strong opposition by EU Member States as well as from trade unions and civil society organizations, in particular with respect to the lack of enforceable environmental provisions and the potential impacts on EU agriculture as well as workers’ rights, further negotiations on [...]

The world is changing, and public administration is changing with it. Polycrisis, instability, multipolarity, geopolitical tensions and an increasing diversity of norms and institutions characterise the complex situation we find ourselves in today. This is pushing traditional administrative and governmental systems to their limits. Since the beginning of the millennium, reform approaches in [...]

Die Welt verändert sich und mit ihr die öffentliche Verwaltung. Polykrise, Instabilität, Multipolarität und geopolitische Spannungen sowie eine zunehmende Vielfalt an Normen und Institutionen kennzeichnen das komplexe Lagebild der Gegenwart. Dieses bringt herkömmliche Verwaltungs- und Regierungssysteme an ihre Grenzen. Bereits seit Beginn des Jahrtausends werden deshalb Reformansätze in der [...]