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The Euroguidance Centre and the European Commission convene Working with the universities
with European networks

The European mobility and guidance networks a united digital market in the EU and the updated Euroguidance Turkey operates under the Turkish serving the same student population. There is
within employment sector in Slovenia, (i.e. the Tvoja Evropa (Your Europe) brochure where all Employment Agency (İŞKUR). Its main focus is an aim to establish closer cooperation between
Employment Service of Slovenia, Euroguidance the EU networks are presented. on universities and their career guidance and these different centres. That way the organizati-
and Eures) and the European Commission Re- The participants were invited to share infor- counselling services available for students. As onal capacity to serve students will be in a
presentation in Slovenia (ECRS) hosted for university education on its own is not enough more effective use. İŞKUR would like to draw
the first time a working meeting with other 33 mation about important network events and for finding a job and as there is no smooth up a clear framework for specifying the roles
meetings with the ECRS, for example, on social
European networks representatives in Slovenia transition from education to the world of work, of the universities and the public employment
in May 2015. Euroguidance Slovenia started the media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) so that everyone therefore more attention needs to be given to the sector in guidance service provision. For tackling
concerned will be informed.
collaboration with ECRS in 2007. Since then the development of the student services provided by this challenge, İŞKUR organized a workshop on
contacts and cooperation with ECRS and the the university sector. In this regard, İŞKUR as the “University Contact Point - University Career
other EU networks in Slovenia have deepened. national public employment institution has taken Centres - the Distribution of Roles” in Ankara in
on tasks such as to:
The meeting was organised to increase aware- December 2015.
ness of the different EU-related activities and • increase the effectiveness of active labour
actions across the networks. For example, the market programmes in universities,
Euroguidance Centre presented its mission • help the youth enter the labour market and to
and emphasised the importance of developing create their career plans,
guiding resources for and working with guidance • increase the skills of university students
practitioners within a broader European lifelong through active labour market programmes,
guidance and mobility framework. The Your first • inform the youth in order to prepare them for
Eures job initiative was introduced by the Eures the labour market before when they enter it.
expert as well as their new chat service launched For speeding up the above development work,
for jobseekers who are interested in finding em- İŞKUR has established altogether 80 University
ployment in other EU countries.
»Searching for workers with well-developed Contact Points (UCP) nationwide by August 2015
At the meeting, also a review on the EU pro- digital skills is rising every year by around and their number is growing.
gramme for research and innovation Horizon 4 %. Almost half of Europeans are not digitally Parallel to the İŞKUR’s UCPs, universities have
2020 and events planned for 10th anniversary of literate. In the future 90% of working places will
European consumers’ centres in Slovenia were need digital knowledge«, outlined Nataša Šip in their own career centres. Both types of centres
presented. Additional topics were the creation of her presentation. (Photo: Mito Žnidarko). are working in the field of career guidance and Photo: Shutterstock

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