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2.2 National

Guidance Seminars

and Conferences

Many national seminars and conferences were
organised by the Euroguidance Centres through-
out Europe in 2016. These events are excellent
fora for knowledge sharing and information
exchange as well as networking among guidance
practitioners and experts at national and regional
levels. The themes of such events are mostly lin-
king guidance and international mobility from a
number of perspectives. On some occasions, the
Euroguidance Centres have also been involved
in hosting events addressing young people and
promoting international learning opportunities for
them.
Euroguidance Austria held a conference that
focused on the practice of recognising skills
and qualifications obtained abroad. Some 150
guidance experts participated and explored
methods for providing guidance and support to
recently arrived migrants (conference website).
Presentations were given on:
• the initial findings of an ongoing OECD study
(to be published in 2017) on the integration
into the labour market through the recog-
nition of formal qualifications obtained in
and brought over from abroad across OECD
countries;
• the need for a “post-integrative” access in or-
der to adopt a pragmatic approach to seizing
the social opportunities provided by immigra-
tion in the long term;
• how qualifications brought over from other
countries are validated and recognised in
Austria;
• the specific challenges facing guidance offers
in schools and beyond, which are compound-
ed by the fact that the number of young peo-
ple threatened by educational disadvantage
and/or unemployment is growing;

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