Programme

12.30 - 16.00 Emerging Researchers Programme

• 11.30 – 12.30 Voluntary lunch (with own expense) 
• 12.30 – 13.30: Emerging researchers' presentations about their ongoing research and topics they would like to share and discuss.
• Coffee break (with own expense) 
• 14.00 – 16.30 Publishing in scientific journals in the field of VET. 
  Introduction to VET research publishing journals (list of journals and webpages). Introduction to the article manuscript review process. 
  NJVET editors: discussion of experiences about submission. 

18.30 Meet and greet

• At Jalo kitchen & lounge (Asemakatu 2, Jyväskylä / Original Sokos Hotel Alexandra) 
• An informal gathering for all participants arriving on Tuesday – a chance to meet colleagues and connect in a relaxed setting before the conference begins. 

• 9.00 - 11.00 Check-in
• 11.00 - 11.30 Welcome to NordYrk 2026 in Jyväskylä (auditorium D1, first floor)
• 11.30 - 12.30 Keynote: Practical learning: conceptions, contributions and its development (auditorium D1, first floor)
  Professor Stephen Billett, Griffith University, Australia 
• 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch (Restaurant Cube, 1st floor) 
   
• 13.30 - 15.00 Sessions 1: paper presentations & symposium ”Yrkesläraren i en föränderlig värld – inblickar i ett kommande nordiskt specialnummer” 
• 15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break
• 15.30 - 17.00 Sessions 2: paper presentations & workshops 
• 17.15 - 18.45 Sessions 3: paper presentations
• Welcome reception, at the conference venue, Dynamo building, Lutakko campus.

• 9.00 - 10.00 Keynote:
  Rethinking Vocational Education in the Complex World: Education for Planetary Praxis
  Professor Hannu L. T. Heikkinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
• 10.00 - 10.30 Coffee break
• 10.30 - 12.00 Sessions 4: paper presentations, poster presentations, workshop, Spotlight session about publishing in NJVET journal & symposium "Case Studies of an R&D-Project on Collaboration between Swedish VET and WBL-Enterprises for Enhanced Vocational Knowing" 
• 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch (Restaurant Cube, first floor) 
   
• 13.00 - 14.30 Sessions 5: paper presentations & workshops 
• 14.30 - 15.00 Coffee break and Ph.D student network 
• 15.00 - 16.00 NordYrk 2026 Annual meeting, Auditorium, 1st floor 
   
• 16.30 - 18.00 Cultural programme: Guided walking tour at Jyväskylä and historic University campus following the footstep’s of the famous architects 
• 19.30 Social networking dinner at Harmooni restaurant 

• 9.00 - 10.00 Keynote: Linking Migration and Vocational Education by Cultivating Practical Learning
  Professor Marianne Teräs, Stockholm University, Sweden
• 10.00 - 10.30 Coffee break
• 10.30 - 12.00 Sessions 6: paper presentations, workshops, poster presentations & symposium "Movement and maturity in Nordic VET systems: Follow up and theorizing current developments in the Nordic countries" 
• 12.00 - 12.30 Closing ceremony
• 13.00 - Lunch to go (Restaurant Cube, first floor)