TRACA

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 […]

Where are we?

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, […]

Who are we?

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 […]

What do we do?

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 […]

About us

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 […]