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its resilience, reflecting on the future of Europe, pandemic. The meeting had a special atmosphere
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strengthening the rule of law and European values, due to the 30 anniversaries of the Euroguidance
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and increasing security and stability in the European Network and the 35 anniversary of the Erasmus+
neighbourhood. programme, respectively.
European Commission representative, Aline Juerges, The meeting marked the handover of Steering
shared updates on relevant policy developments Group Leadership from Sweden and Estonia to
about the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Austria and Latvia. The French Euroguidance team
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Plan, the European Skills Agenda, Individual Learn- presented current projects, including “21 Century
ing Accounts, the European Approach to micro-cre- Career Management Skills”, a new tool for guidance
dentials, Pact for Skills, Upskilling Pathways and New professionals in education (ONISEP).
Adult Learning Working Group.
A task group was formed to prepare a European
Cynthia M. Harrison, CareersNet coordinator and Euroguidance Conference during the first Global
Lifelong Guidance project manager at Cedefop, the Careers Month (GCM) 8 Nov. to 13 Dec 2023, a new
European Centre for the Development of Vocational initiative from the Inter-agency Career Guidance
Training, presented CareersNet’s first working paper, Working Group (comprising Cedefop, European
‘Digital transitions in lifelong guidance: rethinking Commission, ETF, ILO, OECD, UNESCO and World
career practitioner professionalism’. Bank).
Parallel sessions on national practices for com- Euroguidance Network Meeting Czech
petence development for guidance practitioners Republic, November 2022
included:
• An international dimension in guidance: Call The Czech Euroguidance centre, the National Ped-
for improved capacity building of guidance agogical Institute of the Czech Republic, hosted the
professionals (Sweden, Estonia and France). second Euroguidance Network meeting of 2022. On
• Ideas and experiences of the processes of devel- 28.-29. November 2022 more than 50 participants
oping new tools with our stakeholders, example exchanged in task groups, show cased “highlights”
of "Path to the world" cards (Finland). in their work on national level and made plans for
• Modular training for career guidance practi- the second Stakeholder Survey of the Network
tioners (Slovenia). in 2023.
• Development of career guidance at general, On behalf of the European Commission, Aline
special and vocational education institutions Juerges gave the participants an overview of current
(Latvia). policy developments, focusing on the European Year
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30 Anniversary Euroguidance of Skills, 2023.
Network Meeting, France, June 2022 The meeting provided an excellent opportunity
for last minute preparations of the first Lifelong
On 2-3 June 2022, the Euroguidance centres met
in Paris for the biannual Network meeting, the first Guidance Conference, which took place in Prague
face-to-face meeting since the start of the COVID-19 the following day.

8 1. NETWORK LEVEL ACTIVITIES