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1.4 Cooperation and share information at local level. Attendees idarity Corps). More than one hundred guidance
included Youth Information workers, post-primary counsellors from education, the labour market
guidance counsellors, Adult Education Guidance and the private sector attended the event. The
Counsellors and Information Officers, and other conference offered short practical storytelling
and exchange across people and early school leavers amongst others. sessions with real stories on how EU networks
organisations working with unemployed young
and tools helped to solve a challenge of a person
in relation to international mobility experience
Euroguidance Lithuania organized a joint confer-
European networks ence in cooperation with nine different networks as well as interactive group sessions, where
(Europass, EQF, ECVET, Enic-Naric, Eurodesk, the groups solved some real-life situations that
people may encounter while abroad.
Youthpass, EURES, SOLVIT and the European Sol-

The Euroguidance network has a well-established synergies between the Austrian Euroguidance
tradition of cooperation with networks such as and Europass Centres were also used in a jointly
Europass, the EQF-NCP, Eures, Eurodesk, NARIC, organized peer review exercise. Two represen-
Europe Direct and Eurydice that all promote tools tatives from Euroguidance Slovakia and Sweden
that support common policy goals on European and Europass Finland and Hungary were invited to
level. Here, the most important ones are the Vienna to interview important stakeholders and
Europe 2020 Strategy aimed at promoting smart, partners of the two Austrian centres as well as
sustainable and inclusive growth, the Education representatives of the two centres themselves.
and Training 2020 Strategic Framework for Euro- The evaluation of external relations and networ-
pean Cooperation and the recently adopted the king activities as well as activities directed to-
New Skills Agenda for Europe. Using joint efforts wards end-users and stakeholders provided the
and synergies across the networks was key to Centres with valuable feedback and contributed
the successful outreach to European citizens, to the continuous improvement of the services
to mutual learning and cooperation, as will be offered.
highlighted here in a few examples.
Euroguidance Ireland had the opportunity to
Euroguidance Hungary held a national conferen- support the Eurodesk Ireland Time to Move cam- The Lithuanian conference displayed some nice drawings about
ce in cooperation with its European mobility part- paign 2017. This Europe-wide campaign aims to the life in a foreign country. ©Euroguidance Lithuania
ner networks (Europass, Eurodesk, Eures and the inform young people (aged 18- 30 years) and
EQF-NCP). It was the third time that these net- those who work with them about opportunities
works joined efforts in organising this large-scale to work, study, train and volunteer in Europe, The newly established Italian Euroguidance Cen- In November, the national Euroguidance and Eu-
national event for stakeholders in the field of as well as providing useful local contacts in the tre contributed to a range of information events ropass Centres Cyprus continued their annual
education, labour and counselling. In addition, area of Youth and European Information. This addressed to practitioners and the wider public joint actions by organizing two seminars in Nico-
the Centre also reached out to the experts of was aimed at young people struggling to find across the country including the co-organisation sia and Limassol. These events were attended
the Hungarian Vocational Centres by organising their place in society and for whom partaking in of Joint Informative Seminars in Turin and Bari in
a VET seminar for this new target group, as one learning mobility would be beneficial. Successful December with Eurodesk and Eures and a na-
of the accredited programmes of the European regional events were organised by youth organ- tional-level job and career fair in Verona. Besides
Vocational Skills Week 2017. On both occasions isations, supported by NCGE/Euroguidance Ire- these information events the Italian Euroguidance
the results the Euroguidance Centre has reached land and Léargas/Eurodesk. Each event provided Centre kept its users and guidance community
in the past 25 years were presented to the au- a unique opportunity for guidance counsellors updated by releasing bimonthly newsletters and
dience. and those working in the youth sector to network
the national Euroguidance magazine, providing
Euroguidance Austria continued its tradition to readers and subscribers with timely information
contribute to the training of guidance counsellors on significant developments ranging from the
with workshops, where prospective counsellors Estonian EU presidency conference conclusions
receive information about the benefits of Eu- on lifelong guidance and the OECD Report on the
ropean mobility and the opportunities offered National Skills Strategy, to the new EQF Recom-
by the Erasmus+ programme. Three workshops mendation and a summary of the key results of Seminar hosts satisfied with the successful
were held in 2017 with Europass colleagues. The the first 30 years of Erasmus. event © Euroguidance Cyprus

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