Research projects

This research project studies the impact of digital media use on development and equality of opportunities in a longitudinal perspective, at cognitive, social and identity level. 

Today’s children and youth (C&Y) are immersed in digital media...

As part of the Educational Labour Market (POA) project, ROA produces regional labour market forecasts every two years, meeting the growing interest in regional labour market information. For the province of Gelderland, ROA has a long-term cooperat...

The ROA Lifelong Learning Survey monitors since 2004 post-initial learning, informal learning and knowledge development in the Netherlands. The survey is fielded once every three years among working and non-working individuals aged 16 and older. T...

The LEARN (Longitudinal Educational Achievements: Reducing Inequalities) project adopts a longitudinal approach to shed light on patterns of inequality. By examining short-, medium-, and long-term trends, LEARN aims to support educational policyma...

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 as we...

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, 35 l...

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 children’s...

Since the early nineties ROA has conducted research among recent school-leavers in most sectors of education in the Netherlands. The surveys among different groups of school-leavers have been strongly standardized and serve as a monitoring instrum...

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 skills mi...

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 tasks ...