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the organisation has established a Memorandum good, with a participant satisfaction rate of 4.75/5.
of Understanding with IAEVG (International Asso- The aim of this survey is to analyse the knowledge
ciation for Educational and Vocational Guidance) and skills developed during the study visits, with a
and a Declaration of Intent with the ETF (European view to researching and maintaining the quality of
Training Foundation), further cementing internation- the programme.
al partnerships.
The Vademecum was also updated during the
Efforts are also being made to collaborate with var- summer of 2024 to facilitate the integration of new
ious professional networks, such as NICE (Network countries or new members into this group.
for Innovation in Career Education and Guidance),
and with Cedefop CareersNet, a network dedicated Guidance in a sustainable world:
to career guidance professionals across Europe. The sub-working group on this theme, which has
Furthermore, the organisation fosters cooperation been led by the French-speaking Euroguidance cen-
with national guidance associations, ensuring align- tres, published a brochure available in French and
ment and shared objectives at the country level to English in the publications section of the https://
strengthen career guidance globally. euroguidance.eu/resources/publications/other-
publications website. This brochure was launched
Reporting from MTGs during a webinar at the Erasmus Days in October
2023. The video is still available as a replay on the
The Main Task Group 1 supports the devel- Euroguidance France YouTube channel (https://
opment of the skills of guidance professionals youtu.be/oRGzWMA3-TY?feature=shared).
and raises awareness of the value of international
mobility for career management and skills devel- Cooperation with other European networks:
opment. Many tasks were carried out in 2023/24 As the aim of the MTG1 is to promote mobility, one
by members of this group from Belgium, Croatia, way of doing this is to inform guidance professionals
France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, about the resources and networks that exist in Eu-
Poland, Slovenia and more recently Ukraine. rope to help them support their clients according
to their situation and plans. The idea is to produce
The Europass online course: a brochure aimed at guidance professionals to give
The main activity of this group in 2023 was to create them an overview of existing resources and encour-
an online Europass course for guidance professionals. age them to explore these subjects in greater depth.
The aim is to familiarise guidance practitioners with Therefore, we can promote other in-house resources
all the features of Europass, so that they can make such as the Mobility Advice Handbook, which will
the best possible use of it for the target groups they be updated at the end of 2024 and beginning of
are working with. This course was officially present- 2025, and the Europass online course.
ed during a webinar in June 2023. It will be updated
and improved in 2024 before being translated into The first stage of this work is to draw up a list of
various languages. This online course is still available available resources and networks, based on the ‘Al-
on the www.euroguidance-formation.org platform, exander’ brochure in French and the ‘Coran’ brochure
with the option of accessing the course content in Croatian, which were produced 10 years ago. The
anonymously and without registration, for those second stage will involve organising the information
who simply wish to learn about it first. in order to present it effectively in different types of
media, which have yet to be determined.
The Academia study visit programme:
What better way to promote the added value of
mobility than to enable guidance professionals
to experience European mobility for themselves?
The aim of the programme is to give guidance
professionals the opportunity to discover another
country's training and guidance system during
3-5 day visits, and to exchange best practices. 180
professionals took part in 16 study visits in spring
2024. Following an experiment, an evaluation survey
was extended to all the visits, with a questionnaire
PRE and POST study visits. The results were very
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