Projects | ROA

Onderwijs Kennisnetwerk Amsterdam (ONA)

How can Amsterdam build a sustainable knowledge infrastructure that helps schools find, use, and create evidence to improve learning? That question sits at the heart of ONA. The network connects schools, school boards, researchers, and the…

PIAAC

The OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is an initiative of the OECD that assists governments in assessing, monitoring and analysing the level and distribution of skills among their adult populations…

Positive Health at work in vocational education

Vocational education (MBO) institutions in the Netherlands have been using Positive Health in their student curricula for some time now (particularly for students in healthcare-related programs). In recent years, these institutions have been…

Project Onderwijs-Arbeidsmarkt (POA)

This project focuses on the match between education and occupation, the substitution processes in the labour market, and generates the mid-term forecasts for the labour market perspectives for about 100 educational programmes and occupations,…

Refining pandemic strategies for schools: Multiscale modeling of their societal & public health impact [RE-PASS]

Schools are hotspots for transmission of newly emerging respiratory pathogens and are among the primary targets for pandemic measures. The decision on school interventions, such as closures, has been contentious due to their threat to…

School leaver surveys

Since the early 1990s, the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) has conducted large-scale surveys among school leavers to study their transition to further education and the labour market. Since 1996, these studies have…

Skills2Capabilities (Horizon Europe Project)

The Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) collaborates with eight European partner institutions in the Skills2Capabilities project, funded by Horizon Europe.This project aims to bring together a diverse set of related…

Tasks and skills at the workplace

In a production process, the execution of tasks leads to output in the form of products or services. Some tasks are performed by people, while other tasks are performed by machines. Human tasks, which are bundled in occupations, and machine…

Teacher Lab (LerarenLab)

How can we make the teaching profession more attractive? And how can we recruit and retain more — and better — teachers? These questions are at the heart of our Teacher Lab. Together with teachers, school leaders, and researchers,…

Technequality

Technequality aims to improve our understanding of the relation between current technological innovations (robotisation, automation, and digitisation) and social inequalities (income, skills, education, well-being and health) in European…