On behalf of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Prof. Dr. Franz Kaiser is preparing a study on the Swedish vocational training system up to 2018.

The study will then appear in the International Handbook of Vocational Education and Training and as an independent publication.

In addition to preparing basic data on the population and the economy, the study shows the role of and links between vocational education and training and the general school system and illustrates educational pathways, e.g. into vocational school teaching and opportunities for the recognition of previously acquired skills. A special focus is also given to the management of the refugees who were taken in by Sweden in large numbers.

The Swedish vocational training system is primarily school-based and is currently trying to strengthen the link with the demands of the workplace while at the same time maintaining its inclusive approach, which enables many young people to obtain a university entrance qualification at the same time as the vocational training programs.

The study is based on the analysis of current statistics and documents as well as on a large number of discussions with Swedish vocational training experts, such as the expert for the "dualization of vocational training" at the state school institute "Skolverket" in Stockholm Sylvia Tutzauer Linqvist, who visited the ibp at the end of June. Also involved are vocational training research institutes at the universities of Linköping and Stockholm.

A by-product of the study is the presentation on the Swedish vocational training system from a German perspective, which was presented in Stockholm in May.

In 2020, an article on typologies in international comparative vocational training research using the example of the Swedish vocational training system was published in an international reference book.