The BeSt3 – Job, Training, and Education Fair
The BeSt3 aims at pupils, high school graduates, students at universities, school and university drop-outs as well as parents, teachers, university graduates, people in work and those interested in continuing education.
Exhibitors include universities, providers of post-secondary courses, Fachhochsschulen (colleges), academies, private providers of educational programs, language schools, interest groups, as well as companies informing about jobs and in-house training programs.
BeSt3 is jointlyorganized by the Federal Ministry for Education (BMB), the Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW) and the Austrian Employment Service (AMS)
The catchment area comprises mainly Vienna, Lower Austria and the Burgenland, but also Upper Austria, Styria and Salzburg as well as neighboring countries such as the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary
Duration: Four days
Number of visitors: approx. 75,000
Number of exhibitors: approx. 350
Of which from abroad: approx. 40
Visitors Statistics 2016
Out of the total of 78,000 visitors on all four days, 1,757 participated in the survey.
Download Visitors Report BeSt3 2017 (Germna only) PDF (280 kB)
Taking your future in your own hands
Every year in Austria some 40,000 high school graduates, many university students and persons interested in continuing education face the challenge of planning or reorganizing their educational and professional careers.
Information hub, contact and service point
Visiting the BeSt3 - Job, Training and Education Fair will provide you with comprehensive information concerning jobs, study programs and continuing education all in one go. The fair is a hub of information and serves as a first contact point for all who seek advice. It presents a wide range of educational and training programs as well as opportunities in continuing education and professional careers.
Given the broad range of information available at the fair, BeSt3 may rightfully be called THE “Education Fair” in Austria.
BeSt International
The BeSt3 - Job, Training, and Education Fair gives international educational institutions the opportunity to present their study programs, postgraduate courses, and co-operation projects in Austria. The fair aims at encouraging beginning Austrian students to consider studying abroad and at helping advanced students to get into contact with foreign institutions.
BeSt Continuing Education
The BeSt3 - Job, Training, and Education Fair offers providers of continuing education an opportunity to present their various programs. Job profiles and required qualifications are subject to constant change; therefore, lifelong-learning and up-grading of skills, higher qualification, special training or retraining are becoming more and more important.
BeSt Without Barriers
Many exhibitors offer special information for people with disabilities.
BeSt Job direkt
BeSt Job direkt is a platform for both companies, which offer direct career entries, and institutions, which inform about the possibilities, problems and risks of such a career start.