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The National Conference on Counselling and Week. There the best guidance practice prize
guidance in school curriculum was organised by ceremony was organised by Euroguidance Serbia
Euroguidance Romania. The main aim of the for the first time.
event was to exchange ideas and good practices
concerning the school subject Counselling and Euroguidance Slovakia organised round table
Personal Development. It is a new subject in events in four Slovak regions and towns: Zvolen,
lower secondary education for students aged Žilina, Košice, and Bratislava. The aim was to dis-
10-15. The event attracted more than 70 school cuss how career guidance can help in supporting
counsellors and teachers, experts, researchers, the transitions from education to the labour
decision-makers in the field of lifelong guidance market. The first three round tables dealt with
from Romania, Finland and the Netherlands. The specific target groups (primary school pupils,
participants represented 35 out of 42 county cen- secondary school graduates, higher education
tres of counselling across Romania. Several topics graduates), whereas the final one was summari-
were covered by the plenary and workshop ses- sing the key findings of the previous three and
sions, such as career counselling on teenagers’ formulating recommendations for policy makers
personal development, preventing early school and stakeholders both at national and regional
leaving, violence, drug abuse, socio-emotional levels. More than 70 participants, representatives
development, learning management, career of schools from all levels of formal education,
management and lifestyle. One of the keynote guidance service providers, employment ser-
speeches of the conference was given by Dr vices, employers, regional administration, NGO´s,
Raimo Vuorinen from Finland. The conference discussed two key questions:
was highly appreciated by participants and pro- • What tools, measures, practices are currently
vided valuable information for the organisation of in use and what is still needed to improve
future events. (Conference website) transitions from education to labour market?
• How can career guidance help to support
The Serbian Euroguidance Centre coorganised
two national conferences with the Ministry of these transitions?
Education, Science and Technological Devel- Examples of successful initiatives, programmes
opment and the Ministry of Youth and Sport. and projects from EU countries as well as local
Both events attracted around 150 guidance ones were presented at all these meetings. The
practitioners from education, youth work and European Youth Guarantee initiative and the
employment sectors from across the country. Slovak translation of the paper The Youth Gua-
The conference in February focused on career rantee and Lifelong Guidance (Borbély-Pecze &
guidance system development, the use of ICT Hutchinson, ELGPN 2013) were introduced. These
in guidance as well as guidance in secondary Euroguidance round tables were very useful in
schools. It featured several national contributions supporting discussion and cooperation among
and presentations by European experts such as all stakeholders on this challenging topic and in
John McCarthy (ICCDPP), Helmuth Zelloth (ETF), identifying how career guidance can help people
Irena Bačelić from the Croatian Ministry of Em- manage better their transitions from education to
ployment. The conference in December was an the world of work.
official event of the European Vocational Skills

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