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Other cross border activities practitioners and Euroguidance staff. Cooperation Career guidance, the use of technology and guidance professionals, all eight Nordic and Baltic
involved different groups lof centres, depending internationalization are the three key-words that centres have undergone a peer learning process
Cross border mobility seminar – Czech Republic, on the objective and scope of the activity, and describe common aims for VALA and Euroguid- in 2019 through joint staff training seminars in
Slovakia and Poland took several forms – seminars, study visits, peer ance. The Nordplus funded VALA is a network of Tallinn and Helsinki with the input of experts from
Euroguidance centres from the Czech Republic, learning and peer review. higher education institutions, in the Nordic and universities in online training, e-course develop-
Slovakia and Poland organised the seminar Baltic countries and focuses on academic training ment and educational technologies. Between the
„Guidance crossing borders“ for counsellors who Nordic and Baltic universities in the field of lifelong guidance. The members of joint training activities, centres were involved in
are interested in mobility guidance from the peer-learning brings new inspiration Erasmus+ funded Euroguidance network support self-learning about practices (E-ways for com-
border regions near Ostrava where the seminar the competence development of guidance profes- petence development of guidance professionals
took place. Participants discussed why mobility and sionals through information sharing, peer-learning, in Sweden and Estonia, e-learning examples in
cross border cooperation in guidance is important, further training and facilitating international Finland and globally), and also design and training
how experiences from abroad influence their exchange. development models (the ADDIE model).
respective border regions, whether an experience
from abroad is important for counsellors them- Nordic seminar on mobility guidance Peer review to support quality of small
selves and how to support their clients in mobility. Euroguidance centres
Throughout the day, the five pillars of the seminar Mobility guidance with a Nordic "twist" was in
were established following the main topics of the focus in November when the Nordic Council of Peer review activities involving the Euroguidance
seminar and were debated over in the format of Ministers invited Nordic guidance practitioners to centres of Norway, Denmark and Sweden are
a World Café: mobility as a chance for the youth, a work seminar to Copenhagen. The seminar was integrated into the ongoing three-year work pro-
mobility as a chance for counsellors, skills for fu- arranged together with the Euroguidance centres gramme. Each of these centres employs only one
ture, engagement of clients and finally networking of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Swe- full-time designated staff member. Working alone
and cross border cooperation. Outcomes from each © Margit Rammo den and Info Norden. The day included information can be challenging and input from colleagues is
group were then shared with everyone and were about the various opportunities that help facilitate therefore valuable.
followed by workshops where mobility guidance To share the latest developments in training for mobility in the Nordic countries, and discussions on
and good examples from the border regions were career guidance practitioners in the Nordic and how to reach young Nordic citizens and motivate Peer Review is a form of external evaluation
presented. Baltic countries and, more specifically, to inspire them to take part. with the aim of supporting quality assurance and
Estonian universities and other stakeholders with impact assessment. The Peer Review among the
Nordic and Baltic cooperation the experience on academic training, Euroguidance Euroguidance network study visit above-mentioned Euroguidance centres focused on
Estonia hosted the VALA network of higher educa- two of the main tasks – information provision and
In 2019 cooperation among Euroguidance centres tion institutions in Tallinn in August 2019. The Danish and Swedish Euroguidance centres competence development of guidance practitioners
in the Nordic and Baltic countries was aimed at im- Originally planned as Nordplus teacher mobility, the arranged a study visit to Copenhagen and Malmö – and the review was performed by Europass and
proving the competences of both career guidance in June for 11 Euroguidance colleagues from 7 Euroguidance colleagues.
event provided a significant added value to the countries. The objective was to learn about the
partnership by bringing many new stakeholders guidance systems in two countries and discuss The peer review took place in the Norwegian
around the table. At first, the Euroguidance Latvia different aspects of the Euroguidance work. The centre hosted by DIKU – the Norwegian Agency
facilitated the participation of Latvian universities study visit was particularly recommended for new for International Cooperation and Quality Enhance-
and as a result a clear national vision was identi- colleagues in the network as a peer learning ac- ment in Higher Education. One preliminary result
fied for academic training in Latvia. Secondly, the tivity and an opportunity to exchange experiences. is that Euroguidance Norway has fruitful collab-
event was also a unique in Estonian context where oration with other stakeholders and government
all national guidance community representatives, Improving e-learning competences of agencies relevant for guidance. However, there is
including the policy makers, professional associ- Nordic and Baltic Euroguidance centres great potential for improvement for the national
ations, academic and other training providers and Euroguidance website. Euroguidance Sweden and
public employment services as the main employer With the goal of developing a common online Euroguidance Denmark will be assessed later in
in the field, shared their views and prioritized the course to support internationalization among 2020.
professionalism of career guidance professionals.
To share the value of international co-operation in
the field of guidance, to value the expertise in the
use of technology and openness to share in the
Nordic-Baltic region and to promote the importance
of competence building of guidance professionals
partners also recorded some videos that are ac-
cessible to everybody in the international guidance
community. Watch the videos here: http://haridus.
archimedes.ee/en/videos-euroguidance.
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