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The criteria for the assessment are those devel- professionals need a stronger cooperation within
oped in the CWA on European Criteria for Qual- the guidance community at the local/county
ity Internships. The online self-assessment is level. After organising regional meetings in 2019,
available in English, French, Italian, Slovene and we decided to go a step further - to a county
German. Using this tool, the host organisation level. There are 19 counties in Hungary plus the
is invited to answer several questions about its capital, Budapest. The differences between the
internship programme. These questions are struc- counties are quite big. Their target groups have
tured around the 8 quality criteria for internships different aims, motivations and ambitions. In most
developed within the SPRINT project as follows: of the counties career orientation institutions/
recruitment, written agreement, remuneration, organisations work with more or less the same
skills development, tutoring, career development target groups, however professionals have little
and employment, work environment and working information on other players in this field.
conditions, social protection and insurance. In 2020 ‘county level ‘meetings were organised on
5. Training material for university career services twenty occasions for cooperation in each county
staff training: the guide on quality internships of Hungary, to map the relevant lifelong Guidance
and higher education institutions stakeholders at the local level. The aim of the
The objectives of this guide are as follows: meetings was to generate dialogue, interactivity,
• To raise awareness among the career services networking and cooperation between the parties
of European higher education institutions about and solicit their needs for cooperation, investigate
the concept of ‘quality placements’ and its ways for cooperation, collect and disseminate
relevance for students, host organisations and already existing good practices and to collect sug-
higher education institutions, gestions for professional improvement. During the
• Provide the necessary tools to communicate meetings we also initiated the collecting of local
information on European criteria for quality career guidance and counselling events, websites
placements. of the participants and other useful links.
SPRINT : Standardize Best PRactices national legislation and be responsive to all The quality of traineeships here is considered to ‘HOPE’ Webinar
About INTernships stakeholders’ expectations. In order to guarantee contribute to the development of solid compe-
the project success and impact, it was crucial to tences that enrich the content of CV or Europass The International Educational and Vocational
research the influencing factors in the setting of profile. It is an additional strengthening asset for Guidance Association and Euroguidance conducted
standards – such as legal and national contexts. future professional integration into the labour a webinar on November 30 2020 on hope as a
2. Criteria for quality internships: CEN WORKSHOP market throughout Europe. leading principle in Guidance. The presenters
were Dr. Norman Amundson and Andrea Fruhling
SPRINT was a three-year strategic partnership AGREEMENT (CWA) ‘County’ meetings for enhanced from the University of British Columbia and the
project (2017-2020) that aimed to create a Eu- The first objective of the SPRINT project was to cooperation moderator was Dr. Guðbjörg Vilhjálmsdóttir from
ropean quality framework for Internships. It was create a European quality framework for intern- the University of Iceland. Dóra Stefánsdóttir from
co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme. Here we, ships, that would be recognized by all types of Feedback from historical Euroguidance Hungary Euroguidance Iceland was her assistant. Amund-
Euroguidance France, outline the various elements organizations offering internships. The material coordinated events has stated that guidance son and Fruhling have for years used hope as an
and outputs of the project. result is the publication of the CWA on European
Criteria for Quality Internships.
Seven partner European organisations were
involved: Université Paul-Valery Montpellier III, 3. Guide for implementation process of quality
France (coordinator institution), InternsGoPro ASBL, internships for host organizations
Belgium, Association Française de Normalisation The objective of this guide was to provide useful
(AFNOR), France, Sindikat studentov, dijakov in information for successful implementations of the
mladih brezposelnih (Trade Union Youth Plus), CWA on European Criteria for Quality Internships.
Slovenia, UNISER SOC. COOP. ONLUS, Italy, l’asso- It aimed to empower stakeholders not only with
ciation européenne d’institutions de l’enseignement the necessary information about criteria for quality
supérieur (EURASHE), Belgium, the ADECCO Group, internships, but also with its concrete application
Switzerland. into their organisation.
Five outputs were pursued and achieved: 4. Online self-assessment on internships for host
organizations
1. Research on indicators and standards for The online self assessment enables host organiza-
quality internships tions to test and assess their approach regarding
The implementation and potential success of this internships. It also provides them with feedback on
standard depends on its capacity to adapt to any their internship programme(s).

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