The HELM conference is jointly organized by the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) and the IAB. It combines contributions with a general perspective on ‘Higher Education and the Labour Market’, including research on returns to tertiary education, dropout, or graduate placement in the labour market, with contributions on alternating focus topics.
This year’s focus topic is ‘Intended and Unintended Consequences of Higher Education’. Reforms are ubiquitous in higher education and range from small-scale changes or programmes focusing e.g. on facilitating labour market entry or reducing dropout to large-scale reforms such as the Bologna reform. What - independent of their scale - all these reforms share is that their success and overall outcomes are ex ante uncertain. Therefore, it has become widely accepted that the evaluation of such reforms is vital.
Date
23.6.2026 - 24.6.2026
Venue
Federal Employment Agency (BA)
Regensburger Strasse 104
D-90478 Nuremberg, Germany
Keynote speakers
- Susan Dynarski (Harvard University)
- Moris Triventi (University of Milan)
Scientific committee
- Silke Anger (IAB and University of Bamberg)
- Bernhard Christoph (IAB)
- Markus Nagler (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
- Jessica Ordemann (DZHW)
- Frauke Peter (DZHW)
- Felix Weiß (Aarhus University)
Programme
Please visit the conference´s eveeno-Homepage for a detailled programme and conference registration.
Registration is open as of now until places are filled.