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• A European Career Guidance Concept for In- Centre for the Development of Educational Po-
ternational Youth Mobility by Florian Kreutzer licy of the Greek General Confederation of La-
& Elena Iuga (2016). bour, has developed a targeted counselling and
• An interactive e-Learning portal, primarily career guidance methodology for guidance prac-
focused on the counselling interviews about titioners. This project includes:
international mobility of young people, offe- • The development of scientific and educational
ring a practical training on how to guide them material to raise career guidance practitioners’
up to exemplary dialogue sequences. awareness about the issue of NEETs, based
• Advanced trainings through e-Teaching and on a literature review and the mapping of
e-Counselling enable guidance counsellors to best practices and intervention methods used
conduct web-conferences and online mee- in EU countries;
tings and carry out the advanced training • A 35-hour training programme targeted for
methods of the European guidance concept. career guidance practitioners, based on the
Further information as well as all products of above mentioned material and the proposed
the Guide My W@y project are available at: theoretical counselling methodology.
www.guidemyway.eu
Two seminars were held in 2016, attended by
PrevDrop - Detecting and Preventing Drop out over 600 participants, with the aim to strengthen
from Higher Education or Supporting Students to career guidance staff to be able to implement
Switch Successfully to VET: the project aims to effective guidance interventions, according to the
equip student counsellors at universities, careers needs of NEETs and to tackle social exclusion.
counsellors at employment agencies as well as the The training material integrated the analytical
students themselves with tools, knowledge and data for NEETs, according to the findings of a
resources that help the users to detect dropout recent nationwide survey (the first nationwide
risks and to provide or find adequate support. A survey in Europe) entitled Barometer absentee.
self-reflection tool to prevent dropout from higher The training manual presented a basic theoretical
education and to support students to switch suc- framework for the counselling of NEETs, including
cessfully to VET has been developed. The project a conceptual depiction of the phenomenon ac-
provides a low-threshold approach to starting a cording to international literature, illustrating best
counselling process. A comprehensive resour- practices and innovative counselling intervention
ce package, consisting of a training manual, a methods used in various countries and a proposed
trainer’s guide and a set of slides, is available theoretical framework for a relevant counselling
online. The face-to-face training within the intervention. This material helps counsellors to
project have demonstrated that an exchange get an overview of the subject and identify the
of experiences is much appreciated by coun- specific characteristics and needs of the target
sellors. For further information please visit: group and the advisory intervention methodolo-
www.prevdrop.eu
gy. Additionally, the manual includes activities and
In Greece, the group of people neither in edu- exercises that guidance practitioners can use to
cation nor holding a job (NEET) is huge and the raise the awareness and activation of NEETs in the
Euroguidance Centre, in cooperation with the advisory process, either at individual or group level.

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