The State Vocational Education Institute is structured as follows:
Director’s Section
Manages and secures the operation and supervision of the Institute. It coordinates and integrates the operation
of other sections. It provides for marketing and management, Institute's internal and external communication,
particularly providing information in accordance with Act No. 211/2001 Coll. on access to information,
relations with its founder, educational institutions of the ministries, secondary technical schools and their
founders, labor market agencies and institutions, secondary technical school graduates’ employers, industries
and other social partners.
Education and Policy Section
Fulfils tasks in the area of research, conception and career counseling in secondary vocational education and
training, development and innovation of educational programs, projects, standards and other pedagogical
documentation, development of textbooks and teaching aids. It performs tasks in the area of coordination
and integration, information and pedagogical activities and in the field of further training of secondary
vocational schools educators.
Youth Creativity and International Cooperation Section
Performs activities and tasks in the area of care for talented youth, international cooperation, elaboration
and creation of education projects and programs at secondary apprentice and vocational schools in the Slovak
Republic. It organizes training activities, internships, field trips, seminars, workshops, visits to
specialized exhibitions for teachers and students of secondary apprentice and vocational schools abroad.
It innovates the teaching methods at secondary schools by implementing simulation practices through simulations
firms.