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In 2024, the Cross Border Seminar All for Guidance Guidance Services during the implementation of
and Guidance for All: Enhancing the Career Guid- CGC services" conducted in Serbia in 2023.
ance Services through Cooperation was held in
Belgrade, Serbia on 24 – 26 September for more Gordon Purvis from the European Training Foun-
than 80 participants. dation noted that building strategic partnerships
is essential for establishing a good-quality lifelong
About the topic guidance system and presented the roadmap for the
guidance system development.
Considering that career guidance and counselling
(CGC) services are usually provided by organisa- Workshops
tions and institutions in the fields of education,
youth and employment, cooperation is a crucial During 16 workshops, the participants had the op-
mechanism for overcoming the challenges in the portunity to exchange and explore the tools, man-
constantly changing world and meeting the needs uals, documents and other products developed
of clients from various backgrounds. Recognising through various forms of cooperation established to
the importance of cooperation, this Cross Border improve the quality of career guidance and counsel-
Seminar turned the spotlight on the joint initiatives ling services. Nineteen career guidance experts –
and examples of best practices of cross-sectoral representatives of educational institutions, youth
and cross-institutional cooperation, as well as organisations and the employment sector, present-
intersectoral activities established to enhance ed their examples of best practices on topics which
the quality of career guidance and counselling include supporting clients from vulnerable groups,
(CGC) services through developing local part- innovative tools for CGC, connecting students with
nerships, international projects, digital and/or the labour market and future trends in lifelong
other tools and platforms for communication guidance in Europe.
and cooperation of guidance practitioners, policy
documents, etc. More information about the programme and
workshop descriptions are available on the official
Programme structure event website: https://euroguidance.rs/aktivnosti/
prekogranicni_seminar/euroguidance-cbs-belgrade-
Keynote lectures 2024/.

Aleksandra Pejatović, PhD. from the University of Bel- Additional information about the CBS initiative, is
grade – Faculty of Philosophy presented the results of available on the Euroguidance Network website:
national research "The application of CGC standards https://euroguidance.eu/international-mobility/
defined by a Bylaw on Quality Standards of Career cross-border-seminar.

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