Vivian Harberts completed her Master of Arts in education with a focus on vocational and business education and is doing her Ph.D. at the institute. From 2017- 2020 she was project manager in a project to develop a VPL tool in order to determine the skills of semi-skilled and unskilled workers. Since 2018 she was involved in various EU projects in the field of work-based learning as well as digital transformation of VET schools.