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Euroguidance Iceland
held a “Conversation
about Erasmus+”

Private companies
prefer experience from
abroad

Career Week 2013 in
Latvia

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/index_en.htm
Danish action plan:
Enhanced insight
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The French Euroguid-
Euroguidance Iceland held a “Conversation ance Network launch-
about Erasmus+” es EMMA

As a preparation for the Erasmus+ programme which started at the be- The 3s Method in Ca-
ginning of this year, the Euroguidance Centre in Iceland held a some- reer Counselling
what unusual meeting with stakeholders at the end of 2013. The event WIKI, a space for train-
was called „Conversations about Erasmus+”. ing on mobility for
guidance practitioners

First of all, the conference was schools at all levels and other debate and, for a while, it looked
not an open event like has been training institutions, teachers’ like participants wanted to tackle
the case for many years, but a and headmasters’ unions and all the challenges ahead in the
“by invitation only” event where human resources managers coming years.Each participant
relevant stakeholders were from companies that have ex- was given three votes that he or
invited. The title “Conversation celled in training their staff. After she could distribute on the
about Erasmus+” was also three short panel discussions board with all the issues they
unusual, we invited people to where the present situation was had previously said that they
come and discuss how the new analysed, participants were wanted to tackle. To the organ-
Erasmus+ programme could be invited to world café style isers’ surprise, the ‘usual sus-
of best use to further the debates on three themes; what pects’-dropout and increased
national policy on education and Iceland is doing well in funding- did not make it to the
training. The people invited were education and training, the top 10 list. The most important
from the Ministry of Education, challenges ahead and the issue was making a more flexi-
Science and Culture, social challenge in the coming seven ble system of education and
partners (both employers’ and years. This was the part of the training and the number two was
employees’ federations), event which drew the heaviest learning more from good exam-