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Foreword for Euroguidance Introduction to the
Highlights Publication
2015
Guidance services traverse the worlds of employment, education and training and can enable the
most experienced and the most in need make well-informed life decisions. Such decisions can relate
to skills and qualifications but equally can lead to new opportunities to travel and study abroad. With
another year comes another wave of changes to social, work and education environments and the
publication that follows is testament to the work of the Euroguidance network to responding to these
changes to the benefit of individuals.
The Euroguidance network is in itself a model for the potential of European co-operation and the
opportunities offered by sharing and collaborating on best practice. The Commission wishes to ac-
knowledge the work undertaken by the network and the counsellors that inspire, support and inform
individuals to embrace lifelong learning and become mobile. The benefits and personal reward of
mobility experiences are proven in the positive contributions, achievements and ambitions of those
that have travelled and become immersed in other cultures.
The Commission looks forward to supporting the continued good work of the network in 2016.
Ana Carla Pereira
EU Commission
Euroguidance network’s
achievements
The aim of this compilation is to present the Euroguidance network’s greatest achievements across
Europe in 2015. The selected highlights from the individual Euroguidance Centres illustrate the rich
spectrum of activities taken in more than 30 countries to promote international mobility and the
European dimension in lifelong guidance.
Today guidance professionals have a key role in motivating youngsters and adults to embark on an
international mobility experience. Therefore, the Euroguidance network is actively informing, advising
and training guidance practitioners within education and employment sectors about learning oppor-
tunities abroad. Today’s guidance counsellors need to have an understanding of what international
mobility entails and how they can be of assistance to those looking for opportunities outside of their
own country.
As the name of this booklet already indicates, only some carefully selected highlights will be intro-
duced on the following pages. It was not possible to capture all Euroguidance network activities,
events, products and achievements here. Many things had to be left out, such as good examples
of cross-country cooperation between several national Euroguidance Centres. Adding these more
cooperative cross-border activities would expand the scope and focus of the given booklet. Therefore,
they are not included here, yet we wish to mention, for example, the Cross Border Seminars as a joint
effort of the Euroguidance Centres in the Central European countries, and the Nordic-Baltic group that
has been a fruitful forum for strengthening the Northern dimension in lifelong guidance in Europe.
So, this booklet will take the reader on a journey through the different corners of Europe and make the
successful work of the national Euroguidance Centres better visible. All these thematically arranged
actions described in this booklet targeting the European guidance community will hopefully inspire the
reader to become more engaged in the international aspects of guidance and counselling.
Happy reading!
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