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winners of the Czech national career guidance culum”, held in Bucharest, or they were given
awards participated in a study visit co-organized valuable book tokens.
by the Portuguese and Czech Euroguidance cen-
tres. The programme included a participation in In 2018, Euroguidance centre in Slovakia hosted
a Portuguese seminar on Educational Psychology the National Career Guidance Award for the tenth
in Braga and then continued with presentations consecutive time. The special 10 years anniversa-
on guidance in school system, PES and VET in ry edition was organised under the motto “We
Portugal and visits to schools. are writing the story of the career guidance in
Slovakia together“. The Slovak centre was joined
The Euroguidance centre Hungary announced by the Slovak Association for Career Guidance
its call for applications for the 2018 Euroguidance and Career Development to announce the 2018
Career Counselling Award for the sharing of good edition, collect and assess all the contributions
practices, after the first such award granted in and, finally, host an Award Ceremony which was
2016. This year again, the objective of the prize attended by more than 90 participants, including
was to collect Hungarian career guidance practi- representatives of the state organisations, NGOs,
ces and provide an opportunity for career guidance private companies, career guidance practitioners
or career counselling organizations to showcase and professionals. A total of 21 contributors en-
their activities and share their good practices. A tered the competition, out of which 6 were
total of 36 applications were submitted. awarded during the final ceremony. The confe-
rence, in addition, presented an opportunity to
The applications received have been very di- recall and pay tribute to all the award-winning
verse in terms of their subject matters, but can organisations and individuals throughout the
be grouped around three major topics: event years and to showcase the progress that the gui-
to support the choice of profession (exhibition, dance community in Slovakia has achieved over
career days), career guidance tool or method, the last decade.
complex career guidance service. The awarded
recipients have been invited to participate in the On the European Day of 2018, the Erasmus+
International Euroguidance Cross-Border Seminar National Agency Estonia acknowledged the best
on “Guidance and Counselling in the School Curri- promoters of learning mobility of the year in the

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