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eration in Education (Dům zahraniční sional schools (vyšší odborná škola, ISCED 6) and
spolupráce, DZS) is a state-funded pedagogical and psychological counselling in
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organisation, established by the Ministry of each region� Such counselling is provided by
Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech pedagogical and psychological counselling
Republic, performing tasks relating to centres (pedagogicko-psychologická poradna,
ensuring educational, training and other PPP) primarily for young people up to 18 years
relations with foreign countries under of age�
the instructions of the ministry� In 2007 it
also incorporated the National Agency for The individual municipalities are responsible
European Educational Programmes (NAEP)� for compulsory schooling, they establish and
The DZS is responsible for Erasmus+ and administer basic schools (základní škola, ISCED
other educational programmes in the Czech 1+2) and nursery schools (mateřská škola,
Republic (eLearning, EEA/Norwegian Finan- ISCED 0)�
cial Mechanism Fund, ASIA-LINK, etc�)� It is
also the contact point for non-EU students
wishing to study at Czech universities�

The DZS also encompasses the Czech 5�2 National authorities
Euroguidance Centre, a member of the
European network operating in 35 Europe- influencing the
an countries and linking together career
guidance systems in Europe� The main provision of career
target group of Euroguidance is to provide
guidance for practitioners and policy guidance and
makers from both the educational and em-
ployment sectors in all European countries� counselling in the
The Euroguidance network promotes
mobility, and guidance for counsellors employment sector
and individuals to better understand the
opportunities available to European citizens The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
throughout Europe� Above all, Euroguid- (Ministerstvo práce a sociálních věcí, MPSV) � The
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ance creates opportunities for experts in the MLSA is responsible for social policy (e�g� people
counselling field to meet and share their with disabilities, social services, social benefits,
knowledge and experience� By organizing family policy), social security (e�g� pensions,
conferences, seminars, job shadowings, sickness insurance), employment (e�g� labour
study visits, Euroguidance helps to spread market, employment support, employment
examples of good practice� 37 of foreigners), labour legislation, occupation-
al safety and health, equal opportunities of
The Czech Republic is administratively divided women and men, migration and integration
into 14 regions (higher territorial self-gov- of foreigners, European Social Fund and other
erning units)� The regions are responsible for social or labour related issues�
education within their area� Every three years
the regional authorities produce long-term pol- The MLSA supervises a number of state-fund-
icy objectives for their area in compliance with ed contributory organisations of which the
the national objectives� Generally, the regions following are engaged in career guidance and
are the organising bodies for upper secondary counselling:
schools (střední škola, ISCED 3), tertiary profes-
— The Labour Office of the Czech Republic
36 www.dzs.cz
37 www.euroguidance.cz 38 www.mpsv.cz

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