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research completed in 2022. Stakeholder interviews before putting it together on the Moodle platform
and an online survey will be implemented in 2023 hosted by Euroguidance France. Testing took place
to provide an aggregated picture and evidence of during December 2022 and January 2023 before the
the impact of the EG Network’s activities for the final touches were made.
Euroguidance guidance community. First results
were published in June 2023. The course has been developed to include thorough
guidelines and instructions on how to use different
Cooperation with international Stakeholders & technical features of Europass, as well as practical
Global Careers Month 2022 guidelines on how to best use Europass with differ-
ent groups of target users, such as job applicants,
The Steering Group is also responsible for the
exchange of information and cooperation with pupils, students and many more.
international guidance stakeholders. Based on a The eCourse is expected to be launched via a
“Memorandum of Understanding” with the Inter- webinar in June 2023 and presented to the whole
national Association of Educational and Vocational Euroguidance community at the Network meeting
Guidance (IAEVG), Euroguidance closely cooperated in Stockholm June 2023.
in organising the online IAEVG Conference 2021 in
Latvia. Euroguidance presented innovative guidance The production of tools
practices in Europe at a panel session on global Work on the development of tools has continued
innovative practices in guidance for the 2022 joint over the past two years, and the “Mobility Advice In-
IAEVG and Asia Pacific Career Development Associ- terview” brochure is now available in English, French
ation and has helped prepare the IAEVG Conference and German. Other tools have been updated, such
2023 in the Netherlands. as the Vademecum for Academia, various glossaries
Further ties with international organisations were on guidance and the brochure on internships in
developed during the first Global Careers Month in Europe, written in French but with the help of the
December 2022, when Margit Rammo, of EG Estonia, whole Euroguidance community.
was nominated to be the European contact for A pilot project (Estonia, France, Ireland, Latvia,
the Inter-Agency Career Guidance Working Group Slovenia, Sweden) on pre- and post-activity evalu-
(IAG CGWG), composed of Cedefop, the European ation took place in 2022 and will be extended to all
Commission, European Training Foundation (ETF), Academia study visits in Spring 2023.
ILO, OECD, UNESCO and the World Bank.
Green Guidance: guidance for sustainable
Under the umbrella of the “Global Careers Month”, a development
task group led by EG Czech Republic organised the
Network’s first ever European Conference on 30 The sub-group on guidance for sustainable de-
th
November 2022 in Prague. (See also page 13). velopment has continued to gather information
and research on this topic and plans to produce a
The SG has also continued its cooperation with synthesis in summer 2023. In 2021 and 2022, the
Cedefops network CareersNet, where several Eu- Euroguidance Centres of France and Belgium (FR)
roguidance members act as independent national acted as leaders of the group. The other Eurogu-
experts. A representative of Cedefop attended the idance centres involved were Croatia, Germany,
conference in Prague.
Finland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, North
Main Task Group 1: Supporting Macedonia, Slovenia and Spain.
the development of the European Main Task Group 2: Competence
dimension of lifelong guidance Development
The Europass eCourse
The aim of MTG2 is to support competence devel-
The main activity of the MTG1 during 2022 was opment within the guidance community in Europe.
to work on the creation of the online course on MTG2 also supports knowledge, peer learning,
Europass for guidance counsellors. Firstly, the group and skills development within the Euroguidance
considered the objectives of the course and the Network. The work of the group is organised in
expectations in terms of training, before working subgroups: Mentoring new Network members;
out the structure of the course itself. Once agreed, Good practice database collection; Webinars; Joint
the group then worked on the content, the material events.
to be included, including creating quizzes and tests

10 1. NETWORK LEVEL ACTIVITIES