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The special focus of the 5th International VET Conference Crossing Boundaries held on 25-26 May 2023 at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, is on 'vocational education and training transformations for a digital, sustainable and socially fair future'. Keynote speeches: Skill formation in Central and Eastern Europe: a search for patterns and directions of development / Vidmantas Tutlys, Jonathan Winterton, Jorg Markowitsch; Changes in vocational education and training in Lithuania: employers' perspectives / Vaidotas Levickis; Vocational education and training in the conditions of post-war reconstruction of Ukraine: challenges and strategic directions / Sergiy Melnyk. Papers were presented with respect to three thematic strands: (1) systems and policy of VET and lifelong learning; (2) educational institutions and institutional settings in the VET and skill formation; and (3) VET actors and stakeholders. The topics of conference papers are very diverse and provide insights on VET development in the conditions of digitalization, changing roles of VET providers, teachers and learners, sustainability of VET provision, challenges of VET provision in developing economies, empowering effects of VET, changing roles and work of VET teaching staff and many other issues.

Papers are as follows: Evaluation of resources for teaching of technical and vocational education and training courses in technical colleges in Osun State, Nigeria / Tajudeen Adewumi Adebisi; The attractiveness of the industrial technology program among newly arrived students in Sweden / Hamid Asghari; AI pioneers: developing a community of practice for artificial intelligence (AI) and vocational education and training / Graham Attwell, Ludger Deitmer and George Bekiaridis; Investment in human capital: company expenditures on continuing vocational training in times of technological change in Germany / Myriam Baum and Lisa Fournier; Open content development as a challenge and an opportunity (Hungarian case) / Andras Benedek and David Sik; Similarities and differences in the evolution of VET in Hungary and Poland 1989-2022 / Magdolna Benke and Tomasz Rachwal; Promoting VET by implementing a 'dual system' in Ukraine / Vera Braun and Oksana Melnyk; Promoting citizenship competence in Italian vocational education and training through assessment / Flavio Brescianini; Challenges and helpful conditions for vocational teachers in Europe: findings from the 'VETteach' project / Birger Brevik, Franz Kaiser and Melanie Hoppe; A bootcamp as an experiential learning activity for nurturing creative talent: a Hong Kong case study / Kara Chan, Maggie Fung, Justin Lau and Jasmine Zhang; Competence retention for non-routine-situations in digital working environments (condition): studies based on the professions of chemical technician and pharmaceutical technician / Stephanie Conein; The COVID-19 pandemic impacts on apprentices' occupational health in Western Switzerland: between invisibilisation of their status and ordinary suffering / Gilles Descloux, Mathilde Romanens, Nadia Lamamra and Barbara Duc.

Young apprentices' critical perspectives on the curriculum of Portuguese apprenticeship courses / Alexandra Doroftei; On the planned apprenticeship guarantee for Germany: an attempt to reduce the risk of social exclusion during the transition from school to VET? / Marcus Eckelt; Swiss VET: a successful model and its sacrifices on the balance of power between company- and school-based VET in the political governance of the transition to upper-secondary level in Switzerland / Raffaella Simona Esposito; Sitting on the fence: adapt or import?: a study on training activities of foreign multinationals in Germany / Lena Finken and Matthias Pilz; Dual apprenticeship and continuous vocational training of German family businesses in Central and Eastern Europe: commitment, motives and trends / Michael Gessler and Susanne Peters; Arts-based educational research in action in vocational education / Daniel Gregson; If it was going to work it would have worked by now / Margaret Gregson; Online and soft skills training in vocational education in international context: reflections about the state-of-the-art and future potential on the example of China / Karin Hamann, Anne Rickert and Shun Yang; From work force immigration to inclusion: a study of vocational education and training development in relation to society changes and immigration in a historical perspective / Lazaro Moreno Herrera, Asa Broberg and Ali Osman; The apprentice perspective: a blind spot in the governance of VET systems?: a German-Danish-Swiss comparison / Ute Hippach-Schneider and Janine Grobe-Rath; How an apprenticeship can direct learners beyond the local context of teaching and learning: transferable skills in Germany's dual system of vocational education / Gabriela Hohns; 'Making a virtue of necessity': substitution potentials in the face of the shortage of skilled workers: ways to a sustainable future using the example of the German vocational training system / Sebastian Ixmeier, Dieter Muenk and Nina Muscati.

Building bridges between higher education, vocational learning and employment: fostering a sustainable ecosystem through practically based higher education (HE) models / Natasha Kersh, Andrea Laczik and Katherine Emms; Using smartphones for learning: a case study on the impact of digitalization on apprenticeship in the informal sector in Ghana / Lena Krichewsky-Wegener and Lukas Bruck; Women in information and communication technology: creating opportunities for career changes towards IT and IT-mixed professions / Ida Kristina Kuhn, Valerie Ambrosi and Peter Kaune; Comparing dualised forms of initial VET across countries: insights from the IEM survey / Isabelle Le Mouillour, Daniel Neff and Paula Klein; Quality management in vocational education and training: a reflection on educational governance in Austria, Germany and Spain / Junmin Li, Ekaterina Schluter, Hannes Hautz, Julian Bell and Fernando Marhuenda; Vocational students at risk of social exclusion in Estonia: social ecology approach / Krista Loogma, Meril Umarik, Inna Bentsalo and Terje Valjataga; A narrative understanding of boundary crossing by vocational teachers in their career path / Maret Aasa and Krista Loogma; Vocational education and training offered in second chance schools in Spain: possibilities and limits from an organizational analysis / Fernando Marhuenda; Gentle guidance does it?: are public employment service recommendations affecting adjustment of IVET capacities in Croatia? / Teo Matkovic; Social partners' conceptions of their role in school-based initial vocational training of specialists / Rita Miciuliene; Defining green occupational groups in the Spanish vocational education and training system: an emerging approach / Monica Moso-Diez, Juan P. Gamboa, Mikel Albizu-Echevarria and Antonio Mondaca-Soto; Lecturer industrial attachment for TVET teachers in Kenya: access, challenges, opportunities / Moses Njenga; Innovation in vocational training: an action research project / Chiara Ostuni; Instructional technologies and training models in Industry 4.0: an explorative literature review / Marco Perini and Riccardo Sartori; Motivation in international VET cooperation: VET providers and their engagement in transfer / Susanne Peters and Lisa Meyne; VET, patience and the wealth of nations / Susanne Peters and Christine Siemer.

Study success in course of TVET: results of a mixed-methods study / Joana Pletscher; Italian higher technical education: reactive or proactive institution in the skill ecosystem? / Andrea Potestio, Francesco Magni and Paolo Bertuletti; Co-creation and indirect approach as a methodology to improve student engagement in initial and continuing VET / Elena Quintana-Murci, Francesca Salva-Mut, Carme Pinya Medina, Carlos Vecina Merchante, Caterina Thomas-Vanrell, Carme Rossello-Rossello and Julia Vilasis-Pamos; Framing an environment and sustainability lens on vocational education and training (VET): a laminated system analysis / Presha Ramsarup, Heila Lotz-Sisitka and Simon McGrath; A sector qualification framework (SQF) level 2-7 for industrial shoe production / Andreas Saniter and Vivian Harberts; Hydrogen as a future topic in German VET?: research design and initial findings from the research project H2PRO / Maximilian Schneider; Modelling skills mismatch evolution in the European Union / Mantas Sekmokas, Ashish Rajendra Sai, Maria Friedel and Naomi Tilon; Recognizing foreign acquired VET qualifications: potential to empower and challenge skill formation ecosystems / Jehona Serhati and Linda Wanklin; The impact of collaboration among vocational teachers implementing teaching practices during a state of emergency / Meidi Sirk; Emotional intelligence and scholastic achievement in VET: a study among apprentices in healthcare and social care / Laure Tremonte-Freydefont, Marina Fiori and Matilde Wenger; Vocational aspects of empowering at-risk VET students in the Baltic countries and Norway for employment and lifelong learning / Vidmantas Tutlys, Lina Kaminskiene, Tarja Tikkanen; Marieke Gerdien-Bruin, Biruta Sloka and Meril Umarik; Lehrkunstdidaktik and its potential for vocational didactics / Ruhi Tyson; Outside-in: public-private partnerships upgrading the institutional equilibirum in Morocco, the Netherlands and Serbia / Marc Van der Meer, Siria Taurelli and Aram Avagyan; Beyond the classroom: exploring teacher agency in making and breaking educational reforms / Linda Wanklin; What Swiss in-company trainers want: needs, interests, and availability for continuing education / Matilde Wenger and Nadia Lamamra.

Excerpts from conference website and program. Individual papers are available in VOCEDplus.

'Lehrkunstdidaktik and its potential for vocational didactics' by Ruhi Tyson is not included in the proceedings table of contents but can be found at pp. 458-462. Show less