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Other cross border activities practitioners and Euroguidance staff. Cooperation Career guidance, the use of technology and guidance professionals, all eight Nordic and Baltic
involved different groups lof centres, depending
Cross border mobility seminar – Czech Republic, on the objective and scope of the activity, and
Slovakia and Poland took several forms – seminars, study visits, peer
Euroguidance centres from the Czech Republic, learning and peer review.
Slovakia and Poland organised the seminar
„Guidance crossing borders“ for counsellors who Nordic and Baltic universities
are interested in mobility guidance from the peer-learning brings new inspiration
border regions near Ostrava where the seminar
took place. Participants discussed why mobility and
cross border cooperation in guidance is important,
how experiences from abroad influence their
respective border regions, whether an experience
from abroad is important for counsellors them-
selves and how to support their clients in mobility.
Throughout the day, the five pillars of the seminar
were established following the main topics of the
seminar and were debated over in the format of
a World Café: mobility as a chance for the youth,
mobility as a chance for counsellors, skills for fu-
ture, engagement of clients and finally networking
and cross border cooperation. Outcomes from each © Margit Rammo
group were then shared with everyone and were
followed by workshops where mobility guidance To share the latest developments in training for
and good examples from the border regions were career guidance practitioners in the Nordic and
presented. Baltic countries and, more specifically, to inspire
Estonian universities and other stakeholders with
Nordic and Baltic cooperation the experience on academic training, Euroguidance
Estonia hosted the VALA network of higher educa-
In 2019 cooperation among Euroguidance centres tion institutions in Tallinn in August 2019.
in the Nordic and Baltic countries was aimed at im- Originally planned as Nordplus teacher mobility, the
proving the competences of both career guidance
event provided a significant added value to the
partnership by bringing many new stakeholders
around the table. At first, the Euroguidance Latvia
facilitated the participation of Latvian universities
and as a result a clear national vision was identi-
fied for academic training in Latvia. Secondly, the
event was also a unique in Estonian context where
all national guidance community representatives,
including the policy makers, professional associ-
ations, academic and other training providers and
public employment services as the main employer
in the field, shared their views and prioritized the
professionalism of career guidance professionals.
To share the value of international co-operation in
the field of guidance, to value the expertise in the
use of technology and openness to share in the
Nordic-Baltic region and to promote the importance
of competence building of guidance professionals
partners also recorded some videos that are ac-
cessible to everybody in the international guidance
community. Watch the videos here: http://haridus.
archimedes.ee/en/videos-euroguidance.
© Euroguidance Czech Republic
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internationalization are the three key-words that centres have undergone a peer learning process
describe common aims for VALA and Euroguid- in 2019 through joint staff training seminars in
ance. The Nordplus funded VALA is a network of Tallinn and Helsinki with the input of experts from
higher education institutions, in the Nordic and universities in online training, e-course develop-
Baltic countries and focuses on academic training ment and educational technologies. Between the
in the field of lifelong guidance. The members of joint training activities, centres were involved in
Erasmus+ funded Euroguidance network support self-learning about practices (E-ways for com-
the competence development of guidance profes- petence development of guidance professionals
sionals through information sharing, peer-learning, in Sweden and Estonia, e-learning examples in
further training and facilitating international Finland and globally), and also design and training
exchange. development models (the ADDIE model).
Nordic seminar on mobility guidance Peer review to support quality of small
Euroguidance centres
Mobility guidance with a Nordic "twist" was in
focus in November when the Nordic Council of Peer review activities involving the Euroguidance
Ministers invited Nordic guidance practitioners to centres of Norway, Denmark and Sweden are
a work seminar to Copenhagen. The seminar was integrated into the ongoing three-year work pro-
arranged together with the Euroguidance centres gramme. Each of these centres employs only one
of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Swe- full-time designated staff member. Working alone
den and Info Norden. The day included information can be challenging and input from colleagues is
about the various opportunities that help facilitate therefore valuable.
mobility in the Nordic countries, and discussions on
how to reach young Nordic citizens and motivate Peer Review is a form of external evaluation
them to take part. with the aim of supporting quality assurance and
impact assessment. The Peer Review among the
Euroguidance network study visit above-mentioned Euroguidance centres focused on
two of the main tasks – information provision and
The Danish and Swedish Euroguidance centres competence development of guidance practitioners
arranged a study visit to Copenhagen and Malmö – and the review was performed by Europass and
in June for 11 Euroguidance colleagues from 7 Euroguidance colleagues.
countries. The objective was to learn about the
guidance systems in two countries and discuss The peer review took place in the Norwegian
different aspects of the Euroguidance work. The centre hosted by DIKU – the Norwegian Agency
study visit was particularly recommended for new for International Cooperation and Quality Enhance-
colleagues in the network as a peer learning ac- ment in Higher Education. One preliminary result
tivity and an opportunity to exchange experiences. is that Euroguidance Norway has fruitful collab-
oration with other stakeholders and government
Improving e-learning competences of agencies relevant for guidance. However, there is
Nordic and Baltic Euroguidance centres great potential for improvement for the national
Euroguidance website. Euroguidance Sweden and
With the goal of developing a common online Euroguidance Denmark will be assessed later in
course to support internationalization among 2020.
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