2025 education partners and large-scale validation partners
Building on the K-BvB Pilot 1 and interim evaluation results from 2024, KYEDI is expanding the field application of the K-BvB educational model from 2025 and beginning large-scale validation research in earnest.
We are therefore recruiting education partners and research partners — university career and employment centres and municipal youth centres working in youth support — to take part in a second K-BvB validation at a scale of around 1,000 young people.
This is a research programme rather than simply the provision of an educational program: it sets out to establish what change K-BvB produces in young people's self-understanding and career design across different regions and educational settings, and to build an evidence-based standard model for youth career education in Korea.
- Target scale
- Around 1,000 young people during 2025
- Applications
- Accepted on a rolling basis
- Enquiries and applications
- partner@kyedi.re.kr
Who can partner
- University career and employment centres
- University youth career support bodies, such as University Job Plus Centres
- Municipal youth centres
- Regional youth support and career/employment organisations
What partners receive
- The K-BvB metacognition and career design program free of charge — so that partners can run K-BvB's core curriculum with the young people they serve.
- The SDI diagnostic free of charge — letting participants examine their strengths, thinking patterns, recurring activities, and career perceptions, and apply the results in education and self-design.
- Support for validation at each institution — working with our R&D team to apply K-BvB in a way that suits each partner's operating environment and participants.
Questions the second validation addresses
- Does the K-BvB effect hold across different groups of young people?
- Does the effect differ between university students, early-career workers, and job changers?
- Does the effect vary with the region and the institution's educational environment?
- What is the relationship between SDI results and K-BvB educational outcomes?
- Does change in metacognition, cognitive flexibility, and career design intent translate into actual career behaviour?
What partners do
- Recruiting and briefing participants among the young people they serve
- Agreeing schedules and space for running the K-BvB program
- Assisting with participation and satisfaction surveys
- Sharing views and suggested improvements from field operations
- Assisting with the research and data collection the validation requires
Partners in this programme are not simply providers of a venue; they take part as field partners in large-scale K-BvB validation research. KYEDI will keep discussing operating arrangements with each partner so that the validation is meaningful in the field while keeping the operational burden on partners to a minimum.