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practices with colleagues in Bulgaria. Eurogui- the MSc Career Guidance and Development pro-
dance Bulgaria introduced its guests to the acti- gramme at University of the West of Scotland.
vities of Euroguidance, presented the Bulgarian Euroguidance Slovenia and Euroguidance Croa-
educational and career guidance system and in-
troduced them to successful EU projects in the tia jointly organised the study visit “Guidance for
vulnerable groups – NEETs services for youth” in
field of career guidance. A working meeting was
held at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” to September 2018, where participants enhanced
their knowledge about guidance services for
discuss the need, techniques, tools and results of
the career guidance services provided for univer- NEETs, including project learning for young adults.
The 10 participating guidance practitioners and
sity students.
experts from Belgium, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark
The study visit gave an insight into the challen- and Slovenia, including staff members of the two
ges of the national guidance systems as well as organizing Euroguidance centres, gained know-
the different approaches to guidance services in ledge about two different guidance systems as
the two countries and facilitated the exchange part of one study visit, spending 1,5 days in Slove-
of methods and working tools. An agreement nia and 1,5 days in Croatia.
on future cross-border cooperation was reached.
As a follow up on the successful study visit, Eu- In Slovenia participants visited the National Vo-
roguidance Bulgaria is planning to organize a cational Information and Counselling Centre/
larger scale multinational study visit with more Euroguidance Slovenia, positioned at the Employ-
stakeholders involved in 2019. ment Service of Slovenia that coordinates a net-
work of 12 career centres and 34 career corners,
Euroguidance Norway in cooperation with Eras- the Career Centre Ljubljana, the Institute of The
mus+ Adult Education arranged a study visit for Republic of Slovenia for Vocational Education and
employees at Norwegian Adult Career Centres Training and Production School Ljubljana, a pub-
to Scotland. Skills Development Scotland (SDS) licly recognised educational programme for youth
and the University of the West of Scotland, where aged 15 to 18 years, and the Development and
future career guidance practitioners are trained, Education Centre Novo Mesto, an adult educati-
were the receiving centres. The aim of the study on organisation, that develops and implements
visit was twofold: to learn from best practices innovative formal and non-formal education pro-
and to inspire career guidance centres to take grammes for different target groups (including
advantage of the possibilities in the Erasmus+ project learning for young adults).
programme. Norway is currently developing a
quality framework for lifelong guidance and has In Croatia, participants were learning about the
Agency for Mobility and EU Programmes - Eu-
looked at SDS for inspiration. The challenge lies
in establishing a holistic quality framework for roguidance Croatia, the Croatian education sys-
tem and the establishment of the NEET tracking
career guidance that meets the needs of the po-
pulation and the skills needs in a rapidly chan- system. The site visit included learning about
lifelong guidance tools and career counselling at
ging labour market. An interesting element of the
visit was how the university programme mana- the Employment Service, e-Guidance, services for
vulnerable groups (workshops, individual coun-
gers had adapted both the curricula and the time
table to accept more adult students with work selling), prevention of unemployment. The net-
work of CISOK (Lifelong Career Guidance Centre)
experience. “We have moved the exams away
from designated family time to make the study Zagreb and Varaždin presented its activities for
the youth, cooperation with local schools, NEETs
more manageable for double working students”,
said Dr. Marjorie McCrory, programme leader of and vulnerable groups. The Croatian Youth Network

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