CROSS BORDER SEMINAR
Innovative Tools and Methods in
Career Guidance and Counselling
17-18 May 2011
Budapest
Euroguidance Network
• European network of national resource
and information centres
• Under the LLP
• Established in 1992
• Present in 33 countries
• Cooperation of EG centres
Overall objectives
A) Promote the European dimension in guidance:
• Develop the European dimension in the national systems
of educational and vocational guidance and counselling
• Promote mutual awareness and cooperation between
guidance services
• Support EU policy initiatives in the filed of lifelong
guidance
Overall objectives
B) Provide quality information on lifelong
guidance and mobility for learning
purposes
• Educational and vocational guidance systems
• Project results, innovative working methods and good
practice in the field of lifelong guidance
• Education and training systems
• The Community initiatives and programmes within the
field of education, training and mobility
• Other opportunities for mobility for learning purposes
Euroguidance Activities
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International projects
Printed and web-based information
Conferences, seminars, training courses
Study visits
Enquiries
• Ploteus (http://ec.europa.eu/ploteus)
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Learning opportunities
Education systems
Exchange and grants
Moving to a country
Contact
Target audience
Main direct target group:
• Guidance practitioners
Other target groups:
• Students, pupils and other people looking for training
opportunities abroad
• Trainers of guidance counsellors
• Policy makers
• Related European Networks
Common website
www.euroguidance.net
• Contact details and information about all Euroguidance
centres
• Events calendar
• Project database: search for national and transnational
guidance projects
• Information about careers guidance systems in 32
European countries
• Virtual community for guidance practitioners – Guidenet
• Newsletter
Euroguidance Hungary
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Since 2000 in Szeged
Under National Employment Office
Information on mobility in the EU
Publications in Hungarian and English
Organising trainings for the counsellors of the
EUROFIT network
• Participating in: Staff Competence Development
working group, Cross Border cooperation
• www.euroguidance.hu (HU, EN, DE, FR)
Cross Border Cooperation:
History
• 2005: EG centres of Austria, Czech
Republic, Slovakia
• 2009: Germany, Slovenia and Hungary
• 2010: Poland
• 6 seminars organised so far
Cross Border Cooperation:
Objectives
• Cooperation and networking of guidance
practitioners, experts, decision makers
and policy makers
• Exchange of information, experience and
good practice
• Workshop leaders and participants
from all participating countries
Innovative Tools and Methods
in Career Guidance and Counselling
• Plenary sessions and parallel workshops
• Cross Border 2011: Innovative Tools and
Methods
• Conference folder
• Publications and promotional materials
Ice Breaking
Introduce yourself and
finish the sentence…
• The best task I ever had was…
• The worst project I ever worked on was…
• One action I have recently taken to improve or further educate
myself was…
• I have come for the Cross Border Seminar because…
Coffee Break
10.30-11.00.