Nicole Wiench studied education with the focus on adult education/further education, sociology and psychology at the Goethe University Frankfurt a. M., Germany with the degree Diplom-Pädagogin in 2013. Since 2013 she is research assistant at the University of Applied Labour Studies of the Federal Employment Agency (HdBA) in Mannheim, Germany. From 2010 to 2012 she was involved in the PraeLAB (prevention of dropout in VET) Erasmus Project. She has a strong interest in counselling as innovative dropout prevention, detecting and preventing dropout from higher education. Her research focuses on dropout in VET as a communicative action, the intra- and interpersonal communication, counselling and prevention of dropout.