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Euroguidance Network Meeting Europass by Mr Mika Launikari and updates about
October 2019, Helsinki, Finland the new Erasmus+ Programme (2021–2027) by 1.2 Euroguidance
Mr Carlo Scatoli of DG Employment, Social Affairs
The second Euroguidance Network meeting of and Inclusion. Mr Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä facilitated
2019 was held in Helsinki in October and the working on the topic “How to coordinate sustain-
meeting was a part of the European Vocational able development and green values with inter- task groups
Skills Week. 50 participants from Network member national mobility” with Warm Data Lab method.
countries attended the two-day meeting which The Euroguidance Network’s Main Task Groups and
was held at the Finnish National Agency for Steering Group convened, and two peer learning
Education. Most of the topics and themes of the sessions were undertaken. The Euroguidance
meeting concerned the next Erasmus+ Programme. Network members also visited the new Helsinki
At this meeting, information was provided to the Central Library Oodi and explored the variety of
Network regarding the development of the New services and facilities the library offers for visitors.

The three main tasks groups and steering group Additionally, the following development areas were
of the Euroguidance network work on topics and identified:
issues that are of relevance and strategic impor- • Sustainable development of the Network
tance to the whole network. These groups were • Coordination of network level activities
formed in April 2019 and deal with strategy; in- • Proactive communication with international
formation provision and communication; mobility guidance community and relevant policy
and european dimension in guidance activities, makers on European level
developing tools for guidance professionals
and competence development. In the following To contribute to the coordination of network level
activities, the SG introduced joint action plans, with
sections there are short summaries of the main
activities and outcomes of these task groups over follow up between Network meetings. In this way,
duplication of activities between the groups can be
2019.
avoided. The plan also serves as basis for more
strategical planning of network level activities, such
Steering Group as the evaluation activities within the network and
A new way of working at network level was the planning of Network meetings.
introduced within the Euroguidance (EG) Network During 2019 the Steering Group was an active
in 2019. The new system built on a structure with player within the international guidance community
a Steering Group and three Main Task Groups, by participating in and contributing to the Europass
corresponding to the main tasks that the EG Net- Advisory Group meetings, the ICCDPP symposium,
work received from the European Commission, in the Cedefop CareersNet meeting and the IAEVG
the call for the present contract period. Through
© Mirkku Uotila conference. One of the most important activities
a voting procedure within the EG Network, Eu- was the impact assessment of the network's
roguidance Sweden and Euroguidance Estonia activities. To evaluate the Euroguidance activities,
were elected leaders of the new Steering Group the Steering group launched several surveys,
(SG). The other persons in the election round including a member’s survey, a stakeholder sur-
were appointed as chairs and co-chairs of the vey and a network-level review of Euroguidance
Main Task Groups (MTG). All TG chairs became evaluation and impact measures. Furthermore, the
Steering Group members. Additionally, the SG Steering Group contributed to the European Guid-
consists of a non-EU country representative and an ance Study by focusing on messages regarding the
EU-presidency country representative. The first SG need for international dimension in guidance.
was represented by the Austrian, Czech, Estonian,
Finnish, French, Icelandic, Romanian and Swedish Mobility and European dimension in
Euroguidance Centres.
guidance activities, developing tools
The new Steering Group formulated visions for its for guidance professionals
work:
• Internal: High-level engagement of network The Main Task Group (MTG 1) productions aim
members at developing the professional skills of guidance
• External: Euroguidance as a well-known player practitioners by providing them with information,
in the national and international guidance training and tools useful for their daily practice
community with end users.

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