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E-Academia: Curiosity, Creativity and Commitment

Lead to New Solutions

Many European countries cancelled their Academia learning mobility events aimed at career
guidance professionals this year because of travel restrictions amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Estonian Academia hosts, however opted for a creative adaptation of learning mobility in the e-
Academia twice this year.

Estonia had planned a traditional exchange of Attendees were from six countries. “First, we
practices and job-shadowing, but it turned out to be needed to understand who our attendees were and
a virtual mobility in Spring and again in August. their level of experience; after that, we needed to
Typically, a study group of up to 12 would spend figure out the optimal use of technological solutions
four days learning about mobility in Estonia. But to avoid a tedious four-day series of video lectures.
this time, we agreed with the Association of Career The use of various platforms and tools constituted
Counsellors, Unemployment Insurance Fund, an additional learning outcome and the attendees
TalTech, University of Tartu and Innove to were happy to say that although they had heard,
experiment with virtual learning mobility - the first e.g. about Kahoot and Mentimeter before, they
ever e-Academia. The topic of the exchange was were actually practising for the first time,” Margit
“Career guidance in higher education and Rammo, Euroguidance Manager and Estonian
employment offices: How to support learning and Coordinator of Academia at Archimedes
Career Management Skills development“. Foundation, explained the starting position.
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