Last workshop On October 16, 2025, in Athens, the principal investigators from the partner countries of the European LINEup project, who make up its advisory board, held their respective meetings. During the meetings, they reviewed the project’s progress and discussed the main achievements and challenges to date. They shared updates from each work package and […]
Why public universities have more failed students than private ones
The Via Universitària project is an initiative promoted by the Vives Network of Universities , with the technical support of the AQU and with the collaboration of several research groups, including the Education and Work Research Group (GRET) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). The main objective is to analyze the living conditions, forms […]
Promoting students’ successful trajectories in Higher Education Institutions Erasmus+ Project Promoting students’ successful trajectories in Higher Education Institutions. (face-to-face and online). With the acronym Complex Trajectories. Agreement number: 2020-1-ES01-KA203-082842 Partners: The project focuses on analyzing complex trajectories and supporting people who follow them. This is attempted through three lines of analysis and action. The first […]
Project TRACA TRACA Project (project website) – Changes in Educational Trajectories: Complexity and Inequality of Opportunities, is a Research and Development Project under the Knowledge Generation Plan (PID2023-147162NB-031). This project explores complex educational trajectories in post-compulsory education in Spain, focusing on how students deviate from traditional educational pathways. The project is based on the premise […]
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona The Education and Work Research Group (GRET) is located in the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology on the Bellaterra Campus of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (approximately 20 km from Plaça Catalunya). The fastest way to get there is by Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC). From Plaça Catalunya, […]
People Who Are Part of the Group Rafael Merino Associate Professor (Tenured Doctor) in the Department of Sociology at UAB. Coordinator of GRET since 2011. My research interests include the school-to-work transition, vocational training, and youth, education, and labor policies. I teach in the field of sociology of education in the Social Education and Pedagogy […]
Task GRET – Grup de Recerca en Educació i Treball (Research Group on Education and Work) GRET develops a line of research around the complex relationships between educational systems and productive systems. The aim is to develop a comprehensive framework for the evolution of systems and mechanisms for skills production, as well as the evolution […]
GRET – Grup de Recerca en Educació i Treball (Research Group on Education and Work) The Education and Work Research Group (GRET) was created in 1987 by three researchers and professors from the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. The goal of the three […]