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for lifelong guidance could be constructed in or- authorities and local institutions responsible for
der to meet the individuals’ need for information the development of career guidance policy and
and guidance as well as validation. A report was provision of career guidance services in Lithuania
then submitted to the government for decision was coordinated by the Lithuanian Euroguidance
on the next possible steps and a national strategy centre in 2018. The group aims, i.e., at facilitating
for guidance within PES was also developed. This cooperation between actors influencing career
strategy was circulated for comments among guidance policy and practice, at introducing re-
National Agencies in Sweden and Euroguidance levant EU policy developments and initiatives
Sweden wrote a response on behalf of the Swe- and at contributing to the work of CareerNet
dish Council for Higher Education. by provision of relevant national data on career
guidance services. In September 2018, it made
In the Education sector, the Swedish Government recommendations on critical elements of the
appointed an investigation committee with the national career guidance system and presented
task to propose some improvements to guidance them to national policy makers.
services in schools. The committee is to suggest
possible measures to decrease the importance Throughout 2018, the Euroguidance centre Spain
of gender, social background and disabilities for widened access to an improved and updated
making educational and vocational choices and quality online information on the TodoFP Portal,
analyse how the role of guidance can be streng- which is the reference point in Spain for voca-
thened in schools and how digital guidance ser- tional information and guidance.
vices can be developed. Euroguidance Sweden
was invited for discussions and pointed out the Further, the Euroguidance centre Spain has been
importance of an international dimension in gui- moved from the “VET department” to the “Life-
dance services. long Learning department” of the Spanish Mi-
nistry of Education and Vocational Training in the
In Lithuania a national reference group con- understanding that lifelong learning goes hand in
sisting of representatives from several national hand with lifelong guidance. The new position will
allow a broader vision of Guidance including the
local, regional, national and European dimensions.
Together with the Lifelong Learning and Guidance
Deputy DG Euroguidance centre Spain is now
working on the development of a Strategic Plan
of Vocational Training, where the creation of an
integrated guidance system is one of the planned
actions.
Euroguidance Netherlands developed a Digital
Framework for career professionals who offer
guidelines for shaping and implementing career
education and guidance policy at educational in-
stitutions. It ensures better coordination and align-
ment between education and the labour market
and also supports the efforts of career professi-
onals to improve the quality of career education
and guidance for young people in school.
The framework provides a description of the roles
and expertise for different target groups, specified
by the following four focus areas: Vision & policy
advice; education & guidance; Organisation and
Cooperation. The framework has been developed
for secondary school and upper secondary voca-
tional education, but can also be used in higher
education.
In Finland a National Expert Group (NEG) con-
tinued to support the work of the Euroguidan-
ce centre Finland in 2018 by consulting it with

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