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2.1 Focusing on

Guidance 4.0 in

conferences and peer

learning seminars

During the Estonian EU Presidency, their national
Ministry of Education and Research, Cedefop and
the Euroguidance Centre (Foundation Innove)
welcomed over 200 guidance experts and policy
makers from 35 countries, who participated at
the European Guidance Week 2017 organized in
Tallinn. The overall theme of the EU presidency
conference on Lifelong Guidance Policy and Prac-
tice was innovative information and communi- Participants at Cross Border Seminar © Sofija Petrović, Euroguidance Serbia
cation technologies and European cooperation
in the field of guidance. The aims were to share
innovative ICT practices, to disseminate tools and “The past decades have seen an incredible ex-
initiatives to support the development of ICT ca- pansion in access to ICT. Most notably, we have
pacity in lifelong guidance, and to facilitate future seen a significant increase in the use of mobile
cooperation at European level. Active listening and note-taking at the Tallinn technologies and social media. Technological ad-
To identify current trends and points of interest conference. © Foundation Innove vances change the way individuals explore and
acquire information about education, training and
prior to the conference, a mapping survey on the work opportunities. The ‘read-only web’ has chan-
use of ICT and the recent progress of co-opera- The topic of the Cross-Border Seminar held in ged towards a more social, collaborative, interac-
tion mechanisms in lifelong guidance was carried Belgrade was Guidance 4.0: Innovative Practices tive and responsive web,”
out and members from each country were asked for New Skills. The seminar, organized by Euro-
to provide the relevant information (results from guidance Serbia in cooperation with Euroguidance said Dr Jaana Kettunen of the Finnish Institute for
the study can be found here). The Euroguidance centres in 10 countries (Austria, Croatia, the Czech Educational Research of the University of Jyväsky-
Centres led or participated in the work in their Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, lä, in her key note speech at the Austrian Eu-
countries making sure to draw attention to the Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia), debated new roguidance conference Guidance 4.0 - New tools
European dimension in guidance. The survey and innovative practices in guidance, with a focus and skills in guidance in November. Other findings
was conducted in collaboration with Cedefop and on practices using ICT to develop career manage- such as the contribution of Kairi Valk, Foundation
Euroguidance Estonia and the outcomes were ment skills (CMS), key competences and other Innove, about E-Governance and E-Guidance in
presented at the abovementioned conference skills needed in the contemporary world of work Estonia as well as the contribution of Dries Van-
and gave participants an insight into policies and and living. The event brought together around dermeersch about CBL centre Brussels, Belgium, Jaana Kettunen lecturing on the developments
practices in other countries in the field of ICT in 80 participants and offered 15 workshops on the can be found in the conference publication. The in the use of ICT in Lifelong Guidance
guidance. topic of innovative practices in lifelong guidance. event was attended by 150 guidance counsellors. © OeAD-GmbH/APA-Fotoservice/Hörmandinger

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