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Academia Latvia 2021: TOOLS AND METHODS

Promoting professional exchange online Both hosts and guests shared favourite online tools. The following table includes tools and
services that are available in English or German.

The Academia 2021 online format created an enriching exchange for both guests and hosts. The programme
was offered three days in a row for three hours at a time via a designated zoom meeting link through Category Link with description (available language)
cooperation between Euroguidance Latvia and the Latvian Career Development Support Association. Without
the logistical issues involved in regular exchanges, participants from the hosting organisations in Latvia, peaasi.ee mental health promotion (EN)
Counselling tools
including school, university, public employment service and NGO representatives were able to join the davebirss.com story telling dice
sessions offered by colleagues from other organisations. The online format also allowed inclusion of
colleagues from not only Estonia, Germany, Slovakia and Slovenia, but also Greece and Kosovo who are
tripod.ee vocational interests, personality, mental ability (EN)
outside of the Academia network.
entdecker.biz-medien.de vocational interests (DE)
Best elements of the exchange arbeitsagentur.de strengths finder related to apprenticeships (DE)
After the exchange, guests were sent an anonymous Career tests pasizpete.rtu.lv Holand-based interest and skills test (LV/some EN)
online questionnaire to assess the value of the hrpotentials.com standardized psychological questionnaires (EN)
experience. They were inspired by the compact, exciting mynextmove.org interest profiler (EN)
programme, great people, networking, and mutual
learning about best practices. Diverse settings provided busulla.com career website of Kosovo MESTI (SQ/SRB/EN)
an overview of the whole guidance sector.
genial.ly used to create escape rooms
Main challenge for guidance liveworksheets.com used to create worksheets
Exchanges revealed that we share several similar Presentation and padlet.com and jamboard.google.com interactive visualisation of different topics, e.g. career
experiences and challenges across countries, such as visualisation tools that collage, life line, circle of strength, etc.
can be used in various tricider.com brainstorming and voting
Quality assurance of services related to counsellors’
digital skills and the variety of online platforms in use. languages sli.do polling and questions
mentimeter.com presentations, polling, quizzes
Visibility and accessibility of services to target groups,
including labour market representatives, as well as socrative.com quizzes, assessment
motivation, proactivity, and integrity of clients.
Career games joblab.cnos-fap.it (EN/ES/HU/IT/SK) career exploration game for youth
Insufficient awareness on importance of career
counselling, which may lead to lack of institutional
support and lack of time to fully support clients in their Tartu University, Estonia ut.ee
exploration of self and environment. Estonian PES tootukassa.ee
Riga Stradiņš University, Latvia rsu.lv
Career services
Riga Technical University, Latvia rtu.lv
available in English
sciencecareers.org
Information about Academia is available on the
Latvian PES nva.gov.lv
Eurogudiance.eu webpage and through national
EURAXESS network euraxess.ec.europa.eu
representatives of the Academia network.
Some key words that would describe the Academia virbela.com with Estonian example: delta.ut.ee
experience in Latvia in 2021:
en.vystem.io with German example: app.vystem.io
Virtual event platforms
I think that we all work from our hearts. graduateland.com with Latvian example: pasakumi.rtu.lv
worksup.com
For me it was very interesting and intense program and
was a very warm feeling to see and hear so many
dedicated colleagues from Latvia and from other
countries. � Ilze Jansone
Euroguidance Latvia

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