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About a hundred career guidance counsellors, should be encouraged to develop a mindset that study visit to the University of Southern Denmark -
managers of the KESY and training coordinators enables them to translate what they learn at SDU, organised with the support of the Danish
of the PEKES, from all over the country met each university into relevant transversal skills they can Euroguidance Centre earlier in 2019, by including
other face to face for the first time and exchanged use in the present and future labour markets, a an international guest lecturer who presented the
information and proposals on the improvement of career seminar for university career counsellors methods in career counselling done at SDU.
the services provided and the fields of cooperation was organised in November 2019 by Euroguidance To make the training more learning-intensive and
among EOPPEP – Euroguidance Centre of Greece Croatia. to direct participants' attention to the fact that
and their structures. After the seminar, the partic-
ipants filled in and sent to EOPPEP a questionnaire Organised under the name “Future-proof your future jobs will also require an extensive set of
“green” skills, i.e. environmental concerns will need
about the "Application of quality criteria to KESY Career”, the event was a continuation of a several-
and PEKES and the opportunities for cooperation year-long competence development programme to be taken into account when making business
decisions, the training was organised in Plitvice
with EOPPEP” highlighting by category and quality developed by Euroguidance Croatia aimed at
criterion the indicators – desired improvements that university career counsellors. The objective of Lakes, Croatia's oldest national park. A short video
from the seminar is available here.
need to be made for their structures to offer high the programme is to equip counsellors with the
quality services to end users. knowledge and methods they can use in their dai-
ly work with students by showing them different Cité des métiers in Belgium
The interaction of the participants facilitated the developments at national and EU levels and fos-
networking between KESY, PEKES and EOPPEP as tering their cooperation with relevant stakeholders Throughout 2019, the Belgian Euroguidance Centre
well as the homogenization of knowledge among in the guidance process (businesses, national and (FR) welcomed more than 170 career guidance
professionals who have already attended similar international peers, university management, etc.). counsellors from various institutions at the “Cité
training activities of EOPPEP and the staff of the des métiers” in Brussels. The practitioners came
new structures, in order to be able to propose The 2019 event was organised with the support to discover the concept of the “Cité des métiers”
concrete measures on how to improve the ser- of Europass Croatia as a two-day intensive training and to exchange thoughts on the role of guidance
vices provided in the field of career guidance. on methods to develop students' future skills. counsellors in a multi-partner one-stop informa-
The event featured targeted workshops, tasks, tion and advice centre. The “Cité des métiers”
“Future-proof your Career” Seminar panel discussions and presentations, as well as is a concept developed in Paris, France in 1993,
team building activities and informal networking which rapidly became an international network. In
New unemployment rates suggest that recent opportunities for Croatian and international career French-speaking Belgium new “Cités des métiers”
graduates who have focused on their career during counsellors, experts in human resources from opened in Namur and Brussels and will open © Aušra Karklytė, Euroguidance Lithuania
their studies find employment faster than those Croatian companies and leading Croatian futurists. within the next few years (Charleroi and Liège).
who have not. Based on the idea that students It was also an opportunity to build upon a fruitful teractive and attractive content, the event website
National conference for career with all the presentations in video format uploaded
guidance counsellors after the conference. A survey was conducted
during the event and the conclusions led to finding
Joint conference "How to talk to students about out, which challenges are the most important for
career choices?", organized in cooperation with career guidance counsellors while working with
Europass and Lithuanian career specialists asso- students and what kind of information would be
ciation was held in Vilnius on May of 2019. The useful for their professional development.
Conference was attended by one hundred national
guidance counsellors, working in the secondary Training for guidance professionals
schools and gymnasiums in Lithuania.
Euroguidance Belgium (FL) organised several
The topics of the conference were as followed: training sessions for guidance professionals.
• Future professions, which do not exist yet; Topics included: ‘Going abroad’, ‘The Lifeology
• “Difficult” children and how to guide them;
• When and how the answer “What to be?” is Programme: Empowering clients in a changing
world’, ‘Guidance in Denmark: Systems, tools and
found;
• What do students expect from career coun- practices’, and - in collaboration with Europass -
‘Across borders: Working with (education/learning)
sellors;
• How to use higher education tool, created by careers and competences’ (see 2.1.). The ‘Going
Government strategic analysis centre; abroad’ sessions focused on learning mobility -
providing insight in the many opportunities for
• Europass CV and how to use it in career learning mobility within and outside the Erasmus+
guidance activities; programme. We also trained participants in the
• Guiding students into the technological field.
guidance process before, during and after learn-
The main success of the event was professional ing mobility, and hosted guest speakers from the
speakers from various career guidance fields, in- Erasmus+ NAs (Education & Training, as well as

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