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2.5 National

career promotion and

developing mobility for

specific target groups

Euroguidance centres often address and support should internationalise the intended learning out-
various target groups within their national acti- comes of courses and programmes by producing
vities. In this chapter, you can read about projects or clarifying their international and intercultural
working with clients in all stages of their lives, aspects. It also recommends that proactive gui-
from an early age till adulthood, whether it means dance on opportunities for student exchange
supporting the mobility of outgoing students, should be offered from the very start of the study
promotion of learning and working opportunities period, to then be repeated throughout the stu-
for emigration community or guidance for pupils dies. Seven Swedish universities have practically
in transition. tested the project’s recommendations, and thus
contributed to the project’s results. Euroguidance
During 2016-2018 Euroguidance Sweden took part Sweden was part of an internal reference group
in the Erasmus+ project “The Academic Value of and the centre’s model for mobility guidance was
Mobility”. Its purpose was to contribute to the taken on-board in the project. The project report
EU’s mobility target of increasing the proportion can be downloaded at the Euroguidance Network
of outgoing students from Sweden. The project website.
recommends that higher education institutions
In 2018, Euroguidance Latvia, as part of its stra-
tegy to inform the Latvian émigré community in
Europe about learning and work opportunities in
Latvia, focussed on improving synergies with oth-
er bodies working with various aspects of these
issues. Euroguidance, in cooperation with the
Ministry of Education and Science, organized a
focus group involving representatives from vari-
ous Latvian institutions, NGO’s and Latvian contact
points of European networks (EURES, EURAXESS,
Enterprise Europe Network EEN). The focus group
performed a SWOT analysis of career opportunities
for émigré scientists in Latvia, examining existing
cooperation among researchers and organisa-

Mobility guidance tions for the promotion of international mobility.
The discussion helped to identify resources that
© Eva Dalin should be more actively and widely promoted,

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