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FOREWORD

Dear readers,

The idea to organise the National Career Guidance Award originated in 2009
in Slovakia and Czech Republic. The year 2018, therefore, marked 10 years
anniversary since it was fi rst introduced in these countries. In the course of the
10 years, the initiative has evolved and become widely recognised guidance-

related event. Other national centres took interest in hosting career guidance
awards of their own, too, and inspirational guidance practices were soon
awarded in Lithuania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary.

Although a lot has changed over the years, the idea behind the National
Career Guidance Award stays the same, i.e. to disseminate good guidance
practices across Europe and encourage career guidance practitioners and
professionals to share their experience and know-how with their fellow
European colleagues. To this end, centres that host national career guidance
awards in their respective countries keep issuing, as of 2012, joint compendia
of the award-winning contributions.

In the 2018’s edition of the compendium, you will fi nd descriptions of award-
winning guidance practices from three countries - Slovakia, Czech Republic
and Hungary. As you will read through the publication, you will notice
a great diversity in who and to whom is career guidance provided and how
it is delivered; and that is what the National Career Guidance Award is all
about. About bringing career guidance practitioners and professionals from
diff erent sectors and institutions together and showing them that despite
these diff erences they all work towards a common goal – empowerement of
their clients so they can make well-informed and responsible decisions with
respect to their educational and career paths.

We hope you will fi nd these examples of good guidance practices interesting

and inspiring and that you will enjoy reading through the compendium.

Euroguidance centres in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia,
December 2018

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