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many other countries, experienced multiple months
of full or partial closures, with students and school
staff having to find new means of cooperation.
The provision of school guidance was also heavily
affected due to the introduction of remote working,
new behavioural measures such as social distancing,
and the closure of many of educational settings.
These deep and abrupt changes necessitated ex-
tensive adaptation of the usual in-person instruction
and strong support to guidance counsellors, who
had to rethink and redesign their usual working
methods with students and the rest of the school
and community to provide guidance.
In response to this, and as the year 2021 also marked
th
the 10 anniversary of Euroguidance’s work in Cro-
th
atia, in October 2021 EG Croatia organised its 8
annual EU Networks Info Day, joined by colleagues
from the Croatian Europass, Eurodesk, eTwinning,
Eurydice and Youthpass centres, the Working Group
for Vocational Education and Training, and the Eu-
ropean Innovative Teaching Award team. The event
was organised online and was open to more than
200 participants.
In line with the celebratory occasion, the agenda © Euroguidance Germany
was chosen to inspire and motivate guidance prac-
titioners, develop their competencies, and raise their
awareness of the importance of guidance provision New Euroguidance online information
to make informed career choices. The main theme and online training offers – the
"Quality professional guidance and counselling – the example of Germany
path to a successful career" highlighted the impor-
tance of maintaining the high quality of guidance The German Euroguidance centre has expanded its
services along with the introduction of new and online information and online training offers during
innovative online practice. the COVID-19 pandemic. EG Germany launched its
own national website in May 2022 www.euroguid-
The Info Day hosted a famous Croatian multi-ca- ance-deutschland.de. The website informs German
reerist, who has built equally successful careers as guidance professionals about further training offers
a movie and theatre director, DJ, actor, and a pub at European and national level and provides a
quiz expert. In an interesting and inspiring interview, compact overview of current international guidance
the guest shared his unusual and varied career path and mobility topics. The information offered on the
with the participants, drawing valuable conclusions
and recommendations. website is complemented by a promotional video on
EG Germany (also available with English subtitles).
Six online café sessions enabled participants to learn
about good practice from colleagues in Croatian In addition to the website, two new online publi-
schools, Euroguidance, Europass, Eurodesk, eTwin- cations have been published and are available in
ning, the Working Group for Vocational Education German and English.
and Training, Youthpass, and Eurydice. Participants • The National Forum for Guidance in Education,
also learned about quality teaching practices and Career and Employment (nfb) together with the
recognised the winners of the European Innovative national Euroguidance centre of the Federal
Teaching Award – EITA, before taking part in a Employment Agency has updated and revised
school-themed pub quiz where they joined forces the publication "Lifelong Career Guidance and
with their school colleagues to win prizes. The event Counselling – Structures and Services in Germa-
was delivered online through a specially designed ny". The brochure provides an overview of the
conferencing platform and was also streamed structures of career and educational guidance
through Facebook Live. Watch the video of the main in Germany as well as current developments in
event and the video of the accompanying pub quiz. the German guidance landscape.

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