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Discussing skills for the future in Cross Border

Seminar

The main aim of the Cross Border seminar is to bring together guidance practitioners and experts to
engage in discussions and exchanges of good practices in the field of lifelong career orientation. Cross
Border Seminars have been organised since 2005, and this year the topic was skills for the future.

Around 80 guidance practitioners, experts and
Euroguidance centres from 11 participating
countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Croatia,
Germany, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia) participated in
Slovenia in this year’s Euroguidance Cross border
seminar. In addition, national representatives of
the Employment Service of Slovenia, the
European Commission representation in Slovenia,
Center for Vocational Education (EQF NCP and
Europass Slovenia) and international guests from
Euroguidance Belgium Flanders, Euroguidance
Macedonia and Euroguidance Switzerland joined
as well.

Photo: Slovenian workshop Career Guidance for Teachers: An Example of
The seminar organised a total of 16 parallel Short Training programme by Miha Lovšin PhD and Lea Avguštin)
workshops where participants had the opportunity
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to share good experiences in the field of career
guidance as well as to discuss national contexts
One valuable output from the seminar was a
and initiatives for guidance practitioners to improve compendium of national surveys about skills for the
their present and future skills.
future made by all the participating Euroguidance
centers:
Due to the current fast technological
developments, guidance counsellors are facing (https://www.euroguidance.eu/resources/publicatio
questions about the changing nature of ns/other-publications/cross-border-seminar-2019).
careers/occupations and the (future) skills needed
in the labour market. Guidance practitioners in all
cross-border participating countries face these Sabina Škarja
challenges and will use the new knowledge when
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working with clients.