Page 15 - eg-highlights-2019
P. 15

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






 14  1.  EUROGUIDANCE – NETWORK LEVEL ACTIVITIES                          1.  EUROGUIDANCE – NETWORK LEVEL ACTIVITIES  15
   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20