The 1st PPAVI Higher Education Research and Vocational Conference 2026

A hybrid PPAVI conference for scholars, faculties, practitioners, and institutional leaders to exchange applied research, vocational projects, and cross-disciplinary collaboration across PPAVI higher education member institutions.

Background: Vocational higher education institutions are expected to produce applied knowledge, skilled graduates, relevant innovation, and practical solutions for society, industry, health services, technology development, maritime communities, social transformation, business growth, and regional economic resilience. The conference provides a structured scholarly forum for PPAVI members to disseminate research, develop collaboration, and prepare publication-ready outputs.

Goals: provide a formal academic forum; strengthen research collaboration across PPAVI member institutions; support dissemination of applied research and practice-based knowledge; encourage interdisciplinary dialogue; develop proceedings and journal publication pathways; and establish a recurring PPAVI conference series for vocational higher education.

Expected outcomes: accepted abstracts and presentations, hybrid academic sessions, strengthened institutional collaboration, full-paper submissions for editorial review, selected publication in PPAVI Conference Proceedings Series or PPAVI member journals, improved visibility of PPAVI research outputs, and a documented model for future PPAVI conferences.