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Online training for career guidance practitioners Mobility tips and tricks by Erasmus + VET Charter

holders

The European research project Academia+ aims to develop and pilot 3 research-based “Counsellors’

Study and Training Exchange Programmes” (C-STEPs) for European career guidance practitioners. Each year, Italian VET Charter holders convene and co-produce useful tips to help improve the

quality of learner and staff mobility. This year ‘Measuring the impact’ was the seminar buzzword.
The participants will take part in annual one-week C-STEPs in each of the project’s partner countries.

Every year during VET Skills Week, the Italian

Erasmus+ VET National Agency brings together the

Counselling migrants and refugees; most experienced organisations to share their

knowledge on selected mobility issues. In October

Future jobs; 2019 all 51 VET Charter holders attended a

peer-learning seminar “Sharing to do better” in

Demographic change. Rome. The World Cafè-style seminar explored

several hot topics, and out of these, ‘mobility follow-

up’ took the centre stage.

Each of the C-STEPs combines theory, research,

practice and mobility. The participants will learn from

each other’s different approaches and experiences. Challenges & Solutions

As a result, they will be better equipped to tackle Peer-learning seminar, Rome 17.10.19

Partners discussing the impact of COVID-19 on the C-STEPs
current and future challenges, such as an ageing

workforce, the digitalisation of jobs and migration. When it comes to monitoring and evaluating mobility

experiences, organisations face some of the IMPLEMENTATION PHASE

The Academia+ Project Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the first face-to-face following challenges, which also include unclear

pilot training course, “Counselling migrants and General Data Protection Regulations:

Consider using social media with young

Academia+ supports transnational training and refugees”, will be completed online. people and learners: official questionnaires may

exchange of experiences for counsellors in Europe. not give the “real” picture of their experience.

The project addresses key challenges in Europe’s Training contents and methods of the C-STEPs will How to keep in touch with the learners years

labour market and societies. Moreover, it highlights be made digitally available as Open Educational go by? Testimony of learners will provide new

counselling and guidance methods that are Resources. insights into the impact on their lives and skills.

particular to socio-economic and political How to measure the medium and long-term

environments in the partner countries Germany, More information about Academia+: (3>years) impact? Engage learners with gamification

Portugal, the United Kingdom and Luxembourg. academiaplus.eu

How to secure adequate resources for techniques. The results can be processed into

The project will promote international cooperation follow-up activity after the project ends? valuable data for the impact analysis.

within guidance. It will provide concrete tools, Create a competence database: by entering

support, and resources that demonstrate the value comparable data on a yearly basis, the

of mobility and transnational learning for Jane Porath, Clinton Enoch and Rebeca García Murias The exchange of transnational experiences organisation will be able to assess the actual

professionals. (University of Applied Labour Studies) generated some practical tips worth sharing,

summarised below: impact both at organisational level and at

for Euroguidance Germany beneficiaries level (learners and staff) in the

C-STEPs for practitioners current Programming Period.

PLANNING PHASE

Academia+ involves the development of three Adopting these tips may help organisations deliver

one-week research-based C-STEPs for career the much needed evidence-based studies on the

counsellors and guidance practitioners: Beware of the difference: measuring added value of transnational mobility.

satisfaction vs. performance!

Design different tools for different clients (i.e.

special needs), also take into account the

lenght of the stay. Valentina Benni

Euroguidance Italy

Co-design impact indicators with the local

stakeholders and host organisations as they

are the learners’ potential employers.