In order to strengthen the sector-based vocational education approach in Latvia, using the Swiss experience, even closer cooperation between employers, vocational education institutions and public administration is needed, as well as well-thought-out structural changes in the education system. It was the importance of this cooperation and the beginning of a new stage of vocational education development that was marked by the opening forum of the Swiss-Latvian cooperation programme "Swiss-Latvian cooperation for the development of work-based education", which took place in Riga on October 1. During the forum, a discussion was also started on how this approach could be integrated into the Latvian education system, strengthening the…