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Euroguidance webinars: creating added value

through transnational cooperation

Since 2019, the Euroguidance Network has organised webinars for guidance professionals throughout
Europe. To date these webinars have gathered over 1000 practitioners, researchers, policy officers and
other actors involved in career guidance from all over the world.

The Euroguidance Network designs
and organises webinars for the Euro-
pean guidance community through the
basis of transnational cooperation. Eu-
ropean-level webinars are managed
by the Euroguidance competence de-
velopment working group (MTG2).
Countries currently represented in the
‘MTG2 webinar subgroup’ are Greece,
Czech Republic, Germany, Serbia and
Belgium (Flanders). Every year, new
topics are put forward and carefully se-
lected – using criteria such as current
European (EU level) priorities, new
societal dynamics and prior feedback
from the guidance community. We
always seek to maximise the added
value for the guidance community!

Our European-level webinars have involved both pre- shelter in other European countries have seen their
senters from the Euroguidance Network, as well as careers and educational pathways critically interrupted.
guests from the wider guidance community in Europe This has also impacted guidance practitioners who help
and beyond. Each webinar is interactive, as exchange migrants and refugees to identify new perspectives and
and discussion inspire and support networking between to access opportunities in education and the labour
participants. market. The first webinar introduced relevant EU re-
sources in guidance for refugees. The second explored
In the webinar ‘Developing career guidance and coun- effective approaches to career guidance with refugees.
selling services through Erasmus+ projects – Experi- Presenters were representatives from the European
ences from practice’, participants discovered Erasmus+ Commission, the ENIC/Naric network, Stockholm Uni-
project examples and learned how career guidance versity, Canterbury Christ Church University, and the
and counselling services can be developed through Euroguidance Network itself.
Erasmus+. Speakers from Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech
Republic and Slovakia presented how they developed
project ideas, how cooperation was established with Eu- All webinar recordings and details
ropean partners, and what the projects involved. They can be accessed through
also answered participant questions to inspire guidance the Euroguidance Network website.
professionals to start developing their own project ideas.

More recently, we offered two webinars to support Euro-
pean guidance professionals in their work with refugees. Petr Chaluš, Euroguidance Czech Republic
Since the start of 2022, people from Ukraine seeking Joke Verlinden, Euroguidance Belgium (Flanders)

Euroguidance Insight Magazine Issue 2/2022