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i These programmes enforce social and work skills of persons cumulatively disadvataged in the labour market
such as people 50+, people taking care of a relative, long-term unemployed etc�

ii It is the handy methodological guide usable in career education of pupils in basic school that evolves critical
thinking and reflection of gender stereotypes�

iii This project helps to solve social and work integration of immigrants without shelter by taking advantage of
what they know and can use in the new country�

iv The Gaudeamus fair is the biggest annual Central European Education and Study Abroad Exhibition where
Czech and other international higher education institutions, language schools and providers of life-long-learning
opportunities offer the most of study opportunities for students from central Europe�
v The Czech National Resource Centre for Vocational Guidance was established within the National Agency of the
Leonardo da Vinci program as a unit of the National Training Fund� Leonardo da Vinci, the European vocational
training program that was as the first European programme opened already in 1996 to 10 pre-accession coun-
tries including the Czech Republic� Since 2006, the Czech Euroguidance Centre operates within the Centre for
International Cooperation in Education of the MEYS�

The Euroguidance network maintains and facilitate portal Learning Opportunities and Qualifications in Europe
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that provides information for students, jobseekers, parents, teachers and guidance and counselling professionals
on study opportunities in Europe
vii Europass is a personal electronic portfolio of documents� Europass consists of an electronic Curriculum Vitae
(CV) model, and a portfolio: European Skills Passport, which compiles your other Europass documents, such as
language passport and diploma supplements, or other important documents e�g� work certificates�

viii Its eight common European reference levels are described in terms of learning outcomes: knowledge, skills
and competences� This allows any national qualifications systems, national qualifications frameworks (NQFs)
and qualifications in Europe to relate to the EQF levels� Learners, graduates, providers and employers can use
these levels to understand and compare qualifications awarded in different countries and by different education
and training systems�
ix ECVET aims to support the mobility of European citizens, facilitating lifelong learning (formal, informal and
non-formal learning) and providing greater transparency in terms of individual learning experiences, making it
more attractive to move between different countries and different learning environments�

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