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applicants, but also to help scholarship holders to
prepare for mobility or to overcome challenging
issues during their mobility abroad. On top of this,
there is a Euroguidance publication on mobility
opportunities that is distributed at events, and
copies of it are available in all public libraries in
the country.
In 2016, the main focus area for Euroguidance
Turkey was employers in the context of jobs and
vocational counselling services. To provide tai-
lored services to employers, Euroguidance Turkey
published a guidebook for guidance counsellors
to increase the quality of counselling activities
and to standardise the counselling services. The
aim was to prepare the guidebook based on the
real needs of the guidance counsellors working
in the employment offices. Some case examples
were observed by a team consisting of profes-
sionals in the employment area who had visited
four different provinces and interviewed guidance
counsellors to get their views on the contents of
the guidebook. Moreover, the team accompanied
Euroguidance Italy organised a video competition some guidance counsellors on company visits.
on facilitating learning mobility in Europe called After visits to local employments offices and
Euroguidance: la mobilità transnazionale per companies, the handbook with the title Employer
l’apprendimento in Europa. The main aim of this Counselling Guidebook was published. A training
competition was to promote Euroguidance in a programme was offered on the use of the hand-
modern and dynamic way. All students at edu- book with 375 guidance counsellors taking part.
cational institutions of higher secondary level and The Macedonian Euroguidance Centre developed
Vocational Training Centres (IeFP) were invited to a Handbook for career development, containing
participate. The idea was to submit a previously best practices in VET. It has been widely distribut-
unpublished promotional video made by mobile ed at events and fairs and is available for down-
phone about the importance of Euroguidance load in PDF format on the web site of the National
support for transnational mobility. There were 20 Agency for European Educational Programmes
prizes awarded to schools and training centres for and Mobility www.na.org.mk.
the best videos (link to videos, click on vedi video
vincitore on the webpage). Euroguidance Italy published two brochures to
promote the activities of the Euroguidance net-
Serbia has developed a comprehensive pro- work to the Italian vocational education, training
gramme which includes a number of services, and guidance sector, in particular to teachers,
both offline and online, for users before, during trainers, guidance experts, as well as students,
and after mobility. Anyone interested in mobility recent graduates and those interested in guidance
can visit the Foundation Tempus and get infor- issues and transnational mobility for studying and
mation about available mobility programmes, training. These booklets are available in Italian:
have their questions answered and receive free Rete Europea Euroguidance e il Centro Nazionale
copies of booklets with detailed information on Euroguidance Italy, and Rete Nazionale di Diffusi-
mobility, application procedures and links and one del Centro Nazionale Euroguidance Italy.
contacts for next steps. An additional 60-minute
online session is organised each week over the Following the good example of the Slovakian and
most popular social media platforms. These Czech Euroguidance colleagues, the Hungarian
sessions are complemented by a series of events Euroguidance Award was launched in 2016. The
at universities and other relevant centres at aim of this action was to collect best practices
which students and youth learn about mobility from the field of guidance and counselling. Alto-
opportunities as well as hear experiences of gether 30 different institutions or professionals
those who went on mobility abroad in previous submitted their contributions from all over Hun-
years. Furthermore, a series of online webinars gary, and the best ones were awarded in a festive
are offered, not only to promote opportunities for ceremony.

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