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Section 2: Work Package reports

2.3.4 Next steps

• Lifelong career guidance services need to co- • In this process, innovative guidance projects
operate and wherever possible to be co-ordi- need to find ways to a more sustainable foot-
nated in order to be efficient and effective. At ing in mainstream policies. Regional partner-
present, too much energy is wasted on over- ships, linked to each other and to a national
lapping guidance activities which are carried co-operation and co-ordination unit/council/
out in institutional sectors with little cross- forum in guidance, can be seen as important
sectoral communication. This situation needs steps in this direction.
to be improved in terms of creating synergies • With a view to supporting such developments,
between and among the different guidance the future work of ELGPN needs to focus, in
actors and stakeholders, at national, regional, particular, on the issue of co-operation and co-
and local levels. ordination of lifelong career guidance services.
• Thus, co-operation and co-ordination in rela- This can be done through continuing mapping
tion to guidance go beyond the breaking down of the actual state of affairs in this field, linked
of barriers between sectors. They aim at cre- to peer-learning, action-research-based activi-
ating a seamless lifelong guidance approach, ties which can facilitate mutual learning in
without losing the expertise of the different clusters of countries with similar interests and
actors in the guidance process. at similar stages of development.
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