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Counselling Award for the third time in 2020. 'Your Skills and Jobs’ Online Week order that the sufficient reflection time was given
The international award ceremony and the good and to ultimately use the session in the most
practice sharing seminar with over 120 attendees Organised by the Commission between the 30 th efficient way.
th
took place online. Invitations were sent not only to of November and 4 December 2020, the event
the national guidance community but also to the provided students, young people looking for a first The experience of both candidate and guidance
counsellor was extremely positive.
Euroguidance Network. job, experienced workers or entrepreneurs the op-
portunity to find out what the EU is doing to help ‘At these difficult and strange days, it is more
This year again, the objective of the prize was them to find jobs and manage their career. They important than ever before to support, especially
to collect (primarily) Hungarian career guidance were given a chance to share their experiences young people, in their career development and
practices and to provide an opportunity for career and receive advice from experts on drafting CVs, encourage them to keep on dreaming. The prize
guidance or career counselling organisations to job and apprenticeships opportunities, on skills, and of a counselling session was a great idea, that
showcase their activities and share their good much more. was extremely appreciated by my candidate and
practices. A total of 33 applications were submit-
ted. Almost all organizations or institutions involved of course, by me as a guidance counsellor and a
in career guidance in Hungary were represented Euroguidance member. It was a truly interesting
this time again. experience.’ - Vouli Tetradakou (Euroguidance
Greece)
At the event the first three award recipients with
the highest scores were presented in the plenary Nordic/Baltic e-Course for Guidance Participants undertake self-learning, facilitated
part, during the workshops, some of which were practitioners online group lessons and independent group
in English, participants were introduced to 16 more The Nordic and Baltic Euroguidance Centres have assignments. The learning platform contains texts,
entries. Each country where the competition took developed a common non-academic online course images, videos and links to additional material
place participated and held presentations on There were: to support internationalisation among guidance related to the module themes. The purpose of
their awarded projects, such as Slovakia, Czech • 13 live chats with job experts; professionals. The structure for the e-course the course is to contribute to proactive mobility
Republic, Latvia, Serbia and Hungary. A joint • 2 quizzes on green & digital skills; was developed during the network meeting in guidance in order to motivate more pupils and
compendium is being prepared on the awarded • A unique opportunity to WIN a 1-hour personal Dubrovnik and the content developed during the students to step out into the world. It is expected
projects of these countries. counselling session with a career guidance summer of 2020. Additional feedback about the that the course participants will become more con-
Concerning both the COVID-19 situation and the practitioner from the Euroguidance Network. course structure, length, content and interactivity fident in providing support and assistance to young
people, before, during and after the mobility period
demands of young people, in 2020 the focus was The Euroguidance Network was delighted to was collected from Euroguidance colleagues of and gain the knowledge of where and whom to
on online practices. During the earlier years the partner in this initiative. Euroguidance Sweden Germany, France, Italy and Slovenia analysed and consult in their own country for information on
vast majority of the submitted projects aimed at collated the contact details of appropriately integrated into course updates. learning mobility. Euroguidance France kindly
school age students, therefore, practices were qualified guidance practitioners and Euroguidance This e-course contains four thematic modules: provided their Moodle platform for administration
evaluated based on working with adults separately. colleagues from 24 countries. Four quiz participants 1. Why learning mobility?; of the e-course. The piloting phase of the e-course
were selected as winners from a random selection 2. Mobility resources; was due to commence in January 2021 with rep-
of participants that finished the quizzes. They were 3. Role of guidance in mobility; resentatives of the guidance communities in the
matched to volunteer Euroguidance guidance 4. Mobility for guidance practitioners. Nordic and Baltic countries.
counsellors based on the preferred language.
PRACTICES
These sessions were:
25 • In English with a counsellor from Ireland
20 (Sinead McNerney) and a candidate from
6 Kosovo;
15 • In French with a counsellor from France (Yvan
Couallier) and a candidate from Belgium;
10 3
16 • In Italian with a counsellor from Italy (Ilaria
5 8 Piccioni) and a candidate from Italy;
0 0 • In Greek with a counsellor from Greece (Vouli
online offline Tetradakou) and a candidate from Greece.
school adults All candidates were between 20 and 34 of age,
corresponding to the main target audience of
the week, those studying in higher education or
university graduates looking for a job.
The diagram shows the number of projects work-
ing with adults and different age groups under 18. Preparation for the session was key, with candi-
We can see that 33% of the applications preferred dates first completing a questionnaire with regard
online methods. The number of offline applications to their educational and occupational profile and
has doubled, however, many projects among them their expectations from the process. The answers
include some smaller online parts. were provided to the counsellors in advance, in

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