eGuide Training Tools for Quality in Career Guidance Erasmus Project

Project Title

eGuide Training Tools for Quality in Career Guidance

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Open and distance learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

This project produced the following results: • Develop transversal skills for career guidance practitioners, by the provision of training, use of a dedicated online course and manuals offered through the eGuide Practitioner platform, available for all EU member states. • Introduce eGuide User Assessment platform and tools to an additional three EU member states, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia, along with the respective training of local practitioners, required for the tools to take effect. • Update and refresh guidance practitioners in Ireland and Greece who are already using a version of eGuide in their practice and provide support to new practitioners in using the materials and tools. • Expand the existing multi-language materials and tools by three more languages (Romanian, Bulgarian and Croatian). • Develop an online course dedicated for Consulting Principles and methodology. • Create an online Quality Assurance Framework for career guidance practitioners (QAF) making it more accessible and easy to assimilate. • Create for the first time a standardized Career Guidance Principles Aptitude Test (CGP/AT) for certifying the practitioner’s ability for counseling youth, and a Quality Assurance Framework Aptitude Test (QAF/AT) for identifying knowledge of QAF principles. • Promote both eGuide platforms to national and European, educational systems and employment services, trying to get all the above material and tools incorporated within the official VET systems available for all practitioners to use across Europe. • Upgrade the existing eGuide User Assessment platform by identifying and collecting tools and resources from other previous and on-going projects that have a bearing on career guidance or that have produced innovative tools to one available site. Existing tools’ software is to be upgraded too, since the programming code it was initially written in has been rendered obsolete. The above metioned result a long-term change towards improving the quality of skills of practitioners and the career guidance services provided to individuals. It is also expected that the tools developed in this project will be integrated in the VET systems of the project countries of this proposal and eventually lead to official policy initiatives, which is a long term process in terms of bureaucracy, but not impossible to achieve.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 142825 Eur

Project Coordinator

EU-ROM TRAINING AND CONSULTANCY SRL & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Core Corporate Organisation Resources Education s.a.
• BGlex 11Ltd
• BALLYMUN JOB CENTRE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LIMITED
• Supera poslovno upravljanje d.o.o.