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In VET, like at upper-secondary level baccalaureate schools, there are models which enable talented athletes and, for example, also ballet dancers to obtain an upper-secondary qualification alongside their intensive training. There are often individual regulations here, for dance there is a specific VET programme to become a Dancer, Federal VET Diploma (Bühnentänzer/in EFZ).

The United School of Sports, located in Zurich and St. Gallen, offers a parallel programme in the commercial sector to promote sports and VET. The learners are trained for two years in a company after fulfilling the greatest part of the training requirements at school beforehand. Other agreements are made between the school and the company which also require a certain commitment from the company.

Apart from this option, which is basically open to all professions and all learners if corresponding requirements are met at school, there are other institutions which exclusively promote particular talents. These are usually privately organised or non-profit academies or special schools, for example a music school for jazz or a clown/circus arts school.