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seminars for guidance counsellors at the Youth
Guidance Centres and the VET colleges. The goal
was twofold: to foster mobility and to promote
VET. The focus was on promoting the numerous
possibilities for mobility within Europe and the
international activities of the Danish VET colleges.
The seminars were carried out by Euroguidance
in close cooperation with the relevant colleagues
from Erasmus+ VET, Eurodesk and Europass.
Euroguidance Finland organised a national trai-
ning day to discuss current and future develop-
ment needs in the area of providing international
and multicultural guidance. Some 70 guidance
• the opportunities provided by the Erasmus+ practitioners from different sectors (education
programme and the new National Database and training, employment, youth) and several
for Learning Opportunities non-profit associations took part in the training
www.learninginaustria.at; day. The event was based on the Future Back-
• the 5 Europass documents. wards method, which relies on participatory and
The Czech Euroguidance Centre co-organised a interactive ways of working together in small
number of national seminars and workshops to groups. The method was used for exploring the
inform guidance counsellors about international past, present and future around the challenges
mobility and the European dimension in guidance: that mobility and migration create to guidance
provision in Finland. The day generated rich data
• The annual European Voluntary Service inter- and made previously unknown and implicit issues
national meeting (in cooperation with Eras- clearer and more understandable. Euroguidance
mus+) Finland will analyse the results of the day and
• Supporting young people with their career draw some conclusions valuable for the work of
managements skills (in cooperation with 2017.
National Institute for Education)
• Possibility of mobility exchange for young pe-
ople (in cooperation with the Scout institute)
• European and online tools in guidance (in co-
operation with Eurodesk, StudyIN, Europass,
EQF)
• National Career Guidance Awards (in cooper-
ation with the Slovak Euroguidance Centre).
The Bulgarian Euroguidance Centre hosted an
event in Sofia that was dedicated to professional
lifelong guidance networks. The aim of the
event was to inform professionals who work in The Macedonian Euroguidance Centre organised
guidance services about European and national two seminars for pedagogues, psychologists and
policies and to present the activities of differ- career centres counsellors who work in primary
ent types of institutions that provide guidance and secondary VET schools, providing counselling
services to citizens. Furthermore, Euroguidance and career education to pupils. These seminars
Bulgaria also organised a 3-day seminar on were dedicated to their familiarisation with EU
innovative practices in career guidance and possibilities, networking and introduction to the
career management, where participants had the Erasmus+ programme. In addition, the Centre
opportunity to become acquainted with the most hosted workshops in primary and secondary
recent developments in the field.
VET schools to inform their staff about the Eu-
For promoting the VET sector and strengthening roguidance network, career prospects and new
the attractiveness of the VET programmes in developments on the EU level, as well as good
Denmark, Euroguidance Denmark arranged two practices concerning career guidance of pupils.

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