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Client in Career Guidance’. More than 150 guidance participated. The Cross-Border Seminar ended with
counsellors and other guidance professionals from a virtual tour of Lisbon. All outputs from the event
19 European countries attended the event. Two can be found HERE.
keynote speakers were connected virtually to the
‘studio’, from where their speeches were streamed Learning by Leaving Conference
to an online platform for the seminar participants. ‘Inclusion in Mobility’
The afternoon programme consisted of 5 parallel The Learning by Leaving Conference 2020 – a joint
workshop sessions for participants to exchange conference for the European mobility networks
good practices. All outputs from the event can be Eures, Eurodesk, Europass and Euroguidance –
found HERE.
continued the series that aims to establish closer
Cross-Border Seminar ‘Transition as cooperation between the European mobility net-
a Process: The Role of Guidance’ works through regular exchange of information,
best practices and peer learning.
The Directorate-General of Education, through
the Portuguese Euroguidance Centre in cooper- In a time of lockdown due to COVID-19, the
Austrian organisers were faced with a sudden
ation with the CBS Group, organised the online
th
Cross-Border Seminar 2020 on November 26 and decision, and opted to go ahead with the planned
conference as a virtual meeting between June 4–5.
th
27 , under the theme above.
The focus of the conference was inclusion in
The Commission was represented by Aline Juerges
who presented the opening session. For two days, mobility, a topic that will also be at the heart of
the new Erasmus+ programme period. How can
in addition to the plenary lectures by professor fresh thinking and cooperation on e-Guidance and How to go on from here?
Alexandra Araújo, which focused on ‘Facilitating we best support learners and workers with addi- on digital approaches and for smart investments.“
tional needs, including those from underprivileged
Successful School and Career Transitions’, and by In a session called ‘The past, the Present and the
professor Jêróme Rossier, which pointed out to backgrounds and migrants? Are our existing tools An inspiring speech by Ali Mahlodji, founder of Future,’ colleagues from the German and Italian
and information sufficient or do we need to make
‘The Importance of Providing Life-Long Career the whatchado platform (originally an Erasmus+ teams gave insight into the conferences in Cologne
Guidance for All in an Uncertain World’, it was changes to make successful mobility achievable project) and EU Youth Ambassador set the scene (2018) and Cagliari (2019), as well as (this) virtual
for everyone?
possible to participate in workshops organized by for intense discussion on inclusion, and how to Viennese LbL20 conference.
specialists from each of the represented countries. In her opening speech Alison Crabb (European achieve inclusive learning and work mobility: ‘No A Mentimeter-poll among participants gave a clear
About 80 guidance practitioners from the educa- Commission) stated: ”As we look ahead to re- one is a system error and every person, regardless mandate to work on a continuation of the Learning
tion and employment sectors of Austria, Belgium, covery from the economic and social impacts of of gender, religion, origin, skin color, disability or by Leaving series and immediately several centers
Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, COVID-19, one feeling is emerging from the crisis – sexual orientation, should have a chance to find agreed to host a Learning by Leaving conference
Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia there are also opportunities opening up for some their calling.’ in the upcoming years.
More than 120 colleagues from over 30 countries
entered the discussions during this 2-day virtual In a quick additional poll at the end of the confer-
conference. When asked about the most important ence participants spontaneously came up with the
aspects to consider in order to achieve the overall above (wordcloud) topics to be discussed in future
goal of ‘inclusion in mobility’, members of the four Learning by Leaving conferences:
European mobility networks identified ‘co-opera- Further results of the conference as well as videos
tion’ as the most prominent starting point. of keynote speeches can be found HERE.
The organisers not only relied on the work of a Career Guidance Awards (Hungary)
dedicated technical support team in this complete-
ly new situation, but also on the great flexibility A ‘National Career Guidance Award’ scheme has
of the colleagues of all networks, who offered to been organised in a number of countries within
hold 3 workshops on Zoom instead of face-to-face the Euroguidance Network. The idea of collecting
(as originally planned), and who led nine inspiring practices within the field of guidance originates
table discussions in a virtual format. from the Slovakian and Czech Euroguidance
Centres, who have been running their national
The Workshop themes included: awards since 2009. In the past year more coun-
• DINAMO - A distant training on mobility in tries, such as Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia, Lithuania
guidance; and Latvia have joined the initiative. The good
• ‘Euro-Quest’ and ‘Time to Move’ - Promoting practices identified in the participating countries
educational and inclusive mobility across are collected in ‘compendiums’.
Europe;
• Future Time Traveller - Digital inclusion in The Hungarian Euroguidance Centre announced
career guidance for generation Z. its call for applications for the Euroguidance Career

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