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The TRANSIT think tank is an interdisciplinary platform. It develops analyses, theories and scenarios related to the role of adult learning in society. On our website we publish dialogues about adult education with experts from different fields. In addition, background reports and reports on our events. TRANSIT is a project of the Swiss Federation for Adult Learning SVEB.

Focus Topic

“New values in work and adult education and training: New Work = new learning?”

by Helen Buchs

Work is meant to increasingly contribute to self-fulfilment and create meaning in life. Is this trend influencing CET as well? This focus paper discusses how post-materialist values in general, and New Work values specifically, might impact the future of adult learning and CET.

March 14, 2023
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Dialogues on the future of adult learning

Bauer english, Dialogues

«New Work is a necessity»

Heike Bauer helps companies make their transformation to New Work. For her, however, there is a lot more meaning in the term: she also links it to the parallelism...

December 4, 2022
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Dialogues, El Akremi

Starting from the impact to think differently about flexibility

Assâad El Akremi is an active researcher in organisational development in the Occitania region of France and is the co-author of the book “La société flexible” published 20 years...

June 13, 2022
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Bronfen, Dialogues

Fiction opens up possibilities

Metaphors (Denkbilder) and storytelling can be instruments for thinking about the future. This is what cultural scientist Elisabeth Bronfen suggests. In the first months of the Covid pandemic, she...

March 11, 2022
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Chris Bühler, Dialogues

Attitude is the prerequisite for flexibility

Chris Bühler is a digital ethicist. He deals with economic and social issues under the premise of digitality and the increasingly dense interconnectedness of our world. As a coach,...

February 27, 2022
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Dialogues, Klingovsky

Supposed freedom and the urge to optimise oneself

We seem to have arrived at a learning culture where the individual enjoys the greatest possible freedom of design. But this freedom is more appearance than reality. With Foucault,...

December 9, 2021
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Dialogues, Kaeser

«We are living in a homo sapiens/robot symbiosis»

The physicist and philosopher Eduard Kaeser is one of the most important voices in Switzerland to speak out about our relationship with artificial intelligence (AI). He considers our progressive...

August 17, 2020
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TRANSIT Salon “Flexibilisation: Perspectives for Continuing Education”

The TRANSIT think tank has been focusing on the topic of flexibilisation for more than a year. Now, together with experts, we have produced the 3rd trend report. It outlines how flexibilisation has changed society and the labour market. In addition, we show in the report which perspectives arise from this for adult education and the future of learning and ask questions to the actors in continuing education.

In the salon, you will have the opportunity to discuss and reflect on the perspectives and questions formulated in the trend report with a view to your own practice.

The event is free of charge. The registration deadline is 27 February 2023. The number of places is limited. Registrations will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis.

Date: March 7th 2023, 4 to 6.30 pm

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Dialogues as a book/Dialoge in Buchform

Ten dialogues on the future of continuing education have been published in German in a handy book. It is entitled “Zusammenhänge” (“Connections”) and is available in the SVEB Shop.

Zehn Dialoge zur Zukunft der Weiterbildung sind auf deutsch in einem handlichen Buch erschienen. Es trägt den Titel «Zusammenhänge» und ist im SVEB-Shop erhältlich.

Cover Zusammenhänge

Das Cover vom Transit-Buch Zusammenhänge

Publications

Table with books
January 21, 2022

New book – ten dialogues about adult learning today and tomorrow

In ten dialogues, experts reflect on continuing education today and tomorrow. The conversations have now been published in a...

by Ronald Schenkel
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June 16, 2020

Releasing the Chained Giant

Our second trend report is available for download. Its title is: Releasing the Chained Giant. A notable aspect of...

by Ronald Schenkel
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November 13, 2019

Special issue of “Education Permanente”

In June, the journal Education Permanente focused on the future of continuing education.

by Ronald Schenkel
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Cover Education Permanente
June 14, 2019

First trend report and much more

TRANSIT has published a first trend report in which the work of the last years is summarized.

by Ronald Schenkel
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Events archive

Retrospective on the TRANSIT event “Flexibilisation” in Yverdon-les-Bains13.06.22 Explorit, Yverdon-les-Bains On 13 June 2022, the TRANSIT interdisciplinary community met in the...June 21, 2022

Review TRANSIT Event “Flexibilisation” in ZurichOn 19 May 2022, the interdisciplinary TRANSIT community met at the Photobastei in Zurich...June 2, 2022

Rückblick TRANSIT Event «Flexibilsierung»Am 19. Mai 2022 traf sich die interdisziplinäre TRANSIT Community in der Photobastei in...June 2, 2022

The concept of heterotopiaIn the TRANSIT Salon of January 2020, Ulla Klingovsky, Professor of Adult Education, explained...February 7, 2020

Take off in the transit zoneThe first public event of the Think Tank TRANSIT took place in Zurich on...January 22, 2019

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