The mission of the State Vocational Education Institute is:
- expert and methodological management of secondary technical (STS) and secondary vocational
schools (SVS),
- development of educational projects (also in cooperation with foreign partners)
- design of new educational programs and innovation of existing ones, development of pedagogical documentation, textbooks and pedagogical-didactic means,
- provision of expert, pedagogical and educational activities related to the issues of secondary vocational
education and training in the context of life-long learning in the Slovak Republic, including further
training of educators.