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Euroguidance Insight

November 2019

This edition of Insights is dedicated to the
ongoing competence development undertaken
by guidance practitioners. The call for content
was to submit articles that would highlight the
variety of supports guidance practitioners
across Europe engage in within the professional
delivery of their service, across multiple
contexts. The feedback was overwhelming!

Through this theme, we have been able to describe
how the field of career guidance is in rapid
development all over Europe. Some countries like
Finland, Greece and Norway are improving the
education and certification of their career
practitioners.

Other countries, like Croatia, Malta, and Serbia are
putting efforts into practitioner training for
employees at all levels of the educational system. Other countries share how they have been
focussing on special needs, like the UK that introduces training for NEETs, Ireland promoting
competences for delivery with migrants, and Slovakia for people with disabilities.

The role of ICT is ever so relevant when we talk about competencies for the guidance practitioner.
The Estonian article highlights how the use of ICT represents a paradigm shift in guidance and the
Norwegian example describes how the use of ICT is integrated within public policy being applied in
the setting up of a new guidance framework.

From a Network perspective, as ever, international cooperation and training for learning mobility is
at the forefront of our activities. We have been active in many different international settings such
as our recent participation at the IAEVG conference, the coordination of Cross Border Seminars
and through additional structures promoting cooperation for Counsellors / Educators like the VALA
network.

We are especially pleased to offer an in-depth interview with the newly appointed professor in
Career Guidance, Prof. Rie Thomsen from the University of Aarhus, who has dedicated her faculty
life to further professionalising the discipline of career guidance both domestically in Denmark as
well as internationally.