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2.3 International

Guidance Conferences

The national Euroguidance Centres are often theme of the event was regional cross-sectoral
involved in organising large-scale international guidance cooperation. To identify the powerful
seminars and conferences. These target the features and points of interest of national/
communities of guidance practice, research and regional/local cooperation in the field of lifelong
policy and deal with topics and themes that are career guidance, Euroguidance Netherlands along
of common interest and relevance across Europe. with Finland, Estonia and Cedefop carried out a
The Czech Euroguidance Centre co-organised survey. In it the EU countries provided data on
with the Department of Educational Sciences national and regional cooperation in career
of the Masaryk University an international services. Interactive workshops illustrated some
conference on Paths to Professionalising Career best practices of regional approaches. The results
Guidance. The event was promoted to European of the conference have been summarized into
career counsellors, teachers and trainers from eleven recommendations for European, national,
the UK, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden and Slovenia, regional and cross-sectoral approaches (link).
and the Czech Republic. Among the topics were Presentations can be accessed through this link.
Erasmus+ projects supporting mobility exchange The international dimension was very prevalent
and guidance in mobility. at the two guidance seminars that Euroguidance
The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Cyprus hosted. Both events were attended by
Science, in cooperation with Euroguidance guidance and mobility experts from other EU
Netherlands, organised the 6th European con- countries (UK, Ireland, Greece) in an effort to
ference on lifelong guidance policy in Haarlem promote the European dimension in lifelong
where around 75 country representatives from guidance as well as to share views on guidance
27 European countries participated. The overall practices across the participating countries.

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