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Spain • Providing easy access to the state of the art in lifelong guidance, and involvement in its development.
• Acquiring more awareness, understanding, experience and expertise by networking with representatives
of other countries and relevant organisations, who deal not only with guidance, but also with education,
employment and social policies and strategies.
• Learning by being exposed to new initiatives and innovative approaches to lifelong guidance.
• Belonging to the largest and most meaningful lifelong guidance community in Europe.
• Working alongside the European Commission and developing common EU priorities.
• Deepening attention to issues or sectors relevant to each country’s national needs, so leading in due
time to benefits for both the national government (through more coherent and informed strategies and
policy development) and citizens (through improved provision of guidance services).
Sweden • Establishment of a national forum.
• Raising awareness of the importance of guidance among Swedish stakeholders.
• Enhanced communication/co-operation between the education and labour market sectors.
• Large conference on career development arranged for stakeholders within both education and labour
market areas.
• National forum established as reference group for the Swedish ELGPN representation.
• Opportunity to look into other countries’ policies and practices – on quality in guidance, for instance.
• Common understanding and definition of the national guidance system.
• Valuable contacts around Europe.
Turkey • The concept of lifelong guidance has been disseminated at national level.
• A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed in 2009 enhance communication, co-ordination
and collaboration between all the stakeholders. A web-based National Career Information System has
been developed on a collaborative basis, with around 1,300,000 registered users to date; studies to
improve the system are in progress.
• Social inclusion and guidance for children with special educational needs are important issues for Turkey.
• Through ELGPN, Turkey is able to learn from good practices all over Europe.
United Kingdom • Broader understanding of how career guidance operates in other countries.
• Network of career guidance contacts in Europe.

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