Outcomes of public co-funding of further education targeting individuals and enterprises – a cross-country comparison between Germany, Austria, Southern Tyrolean and Switzerland
Recently published – with contributions from 3s: Bernd Käpplinger, Rosemarie Klein & Erik Haberzeth (Eds.), Weiterbildungsgutscheine – Wirkungen eines Finanzierungsmodells in vier europäischen Ländern (pp. 75-99). Bielefeld: WBV. [Further education vouchers – outcomes of a cofunding strategy in four European countries – in German only]
Recently published – with contributions from 3s: Bernd Käpplinger, Rosemarie Klein & Erik Haberzeth (Eds.), Weiterbildungsgutscheine – Wirkungen eines Finanzierungsmodells in vier europäischen Ländern (pp. 75-99). Bielefeld: WBV. [Further education vouchers – outcomes of a cofunding strategy in four European countries – in German only]
The volume presents key finding of a two-year (2011-2013) cross-country comparative research project on the outcomes of selected co-funding schemes targeting (mainly disadvantaged) individuals or enterprises (mainly SMEs). The project has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany. The Büro für berufliche Bildungsplanung (BBB) (Dortmund, Germany) and the Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften Abteilung Erwachsenenbildung/ Weiterbildung of the Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany) have jointly led the project.
Within the project, vouchers and learning accounts in various German and Austrian Länder, in the Karton Geneva and in the autonomous province of South Tyrol (Italy) have been studied and compared. 3s has been responsible for the research on Austria and has contributed three chapters to this publication.
In ‘Eine Frage des Geldes?’ (Does Money Matter?), Günter Hefler outlines opportunity structures for participation in further education and asks for the social mechanisms in place allowing public co-funding schemes to be effective for various disadvantaged social groups. Taking the example of low-skilled adults in Vienna, he explores in a second chapter how organisations responsible for public co-funding develop strategies on how to reach particular (low-skilled) target groups.
In the concluding chapter of the volume, Günter Hefler, Jörg Markowitsch and Viktor Fleischer investigate the genesis and institutional dynamics of public co-funding schemes for individuals in the nine Austrian provinces from the accession of Austria to the European Union to the present.