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Czech

Republic

National Awards for promoting of best practices in career guidance

Awards The National Career Counselling Award contest In 2015 the award winners were rewarded with a

(NCCA) was launched in 2009 in the Czech study trip to the United Kingdom, organised in co-
Republic and has continued annually since then. operation with the UK Euroguidance Centre. The
The Award is traditionally organized under the award compendium 2015 in English is available
umbrella of the National Guidance Forum and in online, too.
cooperation with the Association of Adult Educa-
tion Institutions in the Czech Republic and other
organizations dealing with this topic.
From 2012 the awards have also been organized
in cooperation with the Slovak Republic. The main
aim of the Contest is to chart and award exam-
ples of good practice in career counselling in the
The Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic and Spain have launched Czech Republic and to connect providers of career
counselling services across different sectors.
national awards to acknowledge the development work carried out
by guidance professionals. Such awards serve the purpose of making Moreover, thanks to the awards a wider discus-
sion about the importance of career counselling
the innovative and creative guidance practices better known at has been initiated at a national level. Raising
the national level as well as to encourage guidance counsellors to awareness about guidance services available to
clients for lifelong learning, career development
systematically develop themselves professionally. and international mobility through various chan-
nels has proven successful in the Czech context.

The best practices identified and acknowledged
by the award are published in an English lan-
guage compendium. The 2014 awards are listed
and described online. Photo: Vít Černý

CONTACT:
Petr Chalus
Euroguidance Czech Republic
Email [email protected]
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