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regards to operational priorities of the centre,
the challenges caused by the constantly changing
national environment to guidance and interna-
tionalization, the cooperation with the numerous
guidance stakeholders in Finland, and how the
impact of Euroguidance activities can be incre-
ased through better addressing the needs of
the Finnish guidance community. The experts in
the group represent the key stakeholders from
the education, employment and youth sectors,
including the communities of guidance policy,
research, practice and training. Currently, there
is also a Human Resource Director from a large-
scale Finnish retail company as a member in the
group (2018-2020). Over the years, this group
has proven to be an incredibly valuable forum
to the Euroguidance centre as it has brought
different guidance stakeholders closer together
to discuss and develop lifelong guidance from
an international perspective. © Euroguidance Netherlands

2.3 National professional

development – seminars,

workshops and tools

All the Euroguidance centres across Europe have forms such as workshops, peer learning activities
taken active measures to support the professio- and Boot Camps.
nal development of guidance professionals at na- E-ways for competence development of guidance
tional level. Guidance counsellors were given
the chance to share knowledge about their daily professionals was the name of a workshop offe-
red by Euroguidance Estonia and Euroguidance
work, evaluate best practices and to learn about Sweden at the “Learning by leaving” conference
different topics to further professionalise them- in November 2018 in Cologne, Germany.
selves.
The two Euroguidance centres shared their expe-
In the following inputs, several concrete exam- rience in developing mobility-related online
ples of different types of activities to improve courses for career guidance practitioners, pre-
the competences of guidance practitioners on sented the technological platforms and tools, fo-
mobility and migration related issues will be de- cused on the curriculum development, described
monstrated. These training activities take many the work processes and finally shared feedback

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