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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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