On December 4th and 5th 2014 the LE.A.DE.R Project partnership met in Derby (UK) for the first Transnational meeting hosted by Derby University, one of the English partners of the project.
The main aim of this first meeting was to form a base for the future work of the parthership and to know better each organizations' activities. On the first day, each partner shortly presented him/herself and his/her organisation. The partership discussed about the aims of the project, the workprogramme, the roles of the single partners and the tasks to be performed.

In Greece, a CMS National Framework has not been yet developed but, based on the above common rationale, there is a wide state/public policy interest in CMS.

The National Organisation for the Certification of Qualifications and Vocational Guidance (EOPPEP) is an all-encompassing body operating under the supervision of the Ministry of Civilisation, Education & Religious Affairs, which invests on better quality and more efficient & reliable lifelong learning and lifelong guidance services in Greece. EOPPEP, as being a member of the European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network, and implements actions that contribute to the promotion of career guidance in Greece and to the upgrading of the services provided in accordance with the latest career guidance developments and the EU priorities and guidelines.

Nowadays, career orientation; employment / job research and career management are challenges that must be faced both at a personal and at a social and economic level. These challenges are even more severe when society and people face economic crisis as the one we all face now.
Within this framework, the first working group on Career Management Skills organized by the Institute of Entrepreneurship Development took place with the participation of career counseling professionals.

Since 2004, the University of Camerino has been involved in promoting teaching innovation supported by information technology, such as e-learning. Unicam uses Moodle platforms, a  Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) open source that allows to create online the traditional classroom. Moodle allows to teach and interact with students through a multitude of tools designed and implemented in Didactics. This virtual environment is the basis of the project “Virtual Job Hunt”, the training section of the European “Bio skills in motion save the world”- EARTH - Leonardo Da Vinci, realized in the context of the development of longlife learning for graduated students interested in searching for a job or internship in an international context.

After one year of activities of research, the international Consortium of the European project LE.A.DE.R., promoted by the University of Camerino and Centro Studi Pluriversum has devoloped a common framework on Career Management Skills (CMS). This new concept is crucial to design, develop and assess career guidance interventions and services.