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education guidance centre. The aim was also to Greek counsellors face the difficulty of guiding
offer expert help for guidance practitioners in youth for studies, employment and careers in
employment and education sectors to develop a time of crisis and climaxed unemployment.
and implement new lifelong career orientation The participants improved their guidance skills
services. and became acquainted with new counselling
The second professional exchange with a job practices. As a result, they felt empowered,
shadowing dimension was organised by Euro- gained knowledge of methods of counselling
guidance Slovenia for the Greek guidance asso- for employment, policy measures and tools for
ciation of Teachers & Career Counsellors (NGO) dealing with unemployment (especially youth),
from Thessaloniki. Greek guidance practitioners implementing European project funds in battling
from education and employment participated in unemployment (e.g. Youth Guarantee) as well as
a week’s professional exchange on Connecting knowledge of vocational education and training
Career Counselling and the Labour Market. The in Slovenia.
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