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Section 5: Vision for the future

tives, the following possible tasks are suggested for different ways of viewing the concept of lifelong
the output-oriented TTGs: guidance and the policies, structures and ser-
vices required to operationalise it; to be linked
• To produce a series of analytical policy brief- to a multi-lingual thesaurus to sit alongside a
ings on European education & training and further revised version of the ELGPN Glossary).
employment policy developments from a life-
long guidance perspective (continuation of the In order to maintain the quality of the Network prod-
similar work carried out in the 2011–12 Work ucts, each of these groups will need technical support
Programme). from external consultants.
• To develop a handbook for policy-makers The International Symposium on Career Develop-
which would pull together the key existing evi- ment and Public Policy (Budapest, 5–7 December
dence on the impact of career development 2011) invited the ELGPN to strengthen links between
services, and provide a guide to the possible European Union member-states and parallel inter-
elements of accountability frameworks (with national initiatives in lifelong guidance policy devel-
examples), in collaboration with ICCDPP opment. As recommended by the Symposium, the
and other relevant research networks outside TTG on impact evidence (see above) could develop
Europe (see below). a handbook for policy-makers, in collaboration with
• To explore the possibility of developing a Euro- ICCDPP and other relevant international partners
pean Framework for Lifelong Guidance Policies and research networks extending beyond Europe.
and Systems Development incorporating possible ELGPN could also encourage OECD and/or Cedefop
indicators, to develop the technical basis for to repeat the influential country reviews conducted
such a framework, and to establish an appro- in 2001-03, taking advantage of other data sources
priate ELGPN process using the Open Method now available. Preparatory work for these reviews
of Co-ordination (OMC) model. could be carried out in 2013, enabling an initial
series of reviews to be carried out in 2014, with the
Other TTGs might produce commissioned papers on possibility of extending such reviews to most of all
selected topics. Examples include: member countries in the subsequent 2015–16 Work
Programme. ELGPN should also work closely with
• social inclusion, poverty reduction and the role the European Commission to investigate the pos-
of lifelong guidance services; sibility of co-operation with OECD in relation to the
• active solidarity/ active ageing and role of life- PISA and PIACC results.
long guidance policies; As key principles for its future work, the Network
• new EU mobility tools (e.g. EQF, ECVET, ECTS, should guarantee access to its activities to all member
ESCO, EUROPASS) and the role of lifelong countries, and maintain their strong commitment to Future
guidance in linking users with these tools; and ownership of these activities. There is a strong
• the role of lifelong guidance in policies on consensus to support the transversal nature of life-
early school-leaving (prevention, intervention, long guidance, while strengthening its impact within
compensation); the key related policy sectors. ELGPN should seek a
• funding (how lifelong guidance is financed, stronger role in participating in the EU policy pro-
and by whom); cesses.
• language and concepts (conceptualisation of The European Commission will continue its sub-
key terms related to lifelong guidance in differ- sidy for the Network from the Lifelong Learning Pro-
ent European languages, and how this reflects gramme during 2013–14. The challenge for ELGPN

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