On 13th April 2016 was held the first International Conference of the LE.A.DE.R Project in Barcelona organized by Dep Institut. The conference named "Lifelong guidance in Europe: improving Career Management Skills" was hosted by Universitat Pompeu Fabra and introduced to the local participants and practitioners the framework that the partnership is elaborating.
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.
On May 5th and 6th 2015 the LE.A.DE.R Project partnership met in Adana (Turkey) for the Second Transnational meeting hosted by Cucurova University, the Turkish partner of the project. The partnership reviewed the results of the first stage of the project and Derby University presented the results of the international survey on career management skills realized by focus groups with practitioners and by on line questionnaires collected in the partner countries.
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.
The first focus group of the European project Erasmus+ “Leader-Learning and Decision Making Resources” organized by the Institute of Entrepreneurship Development took place at the premises of Open Mellon, Larissa, on the 12th of March 2015, with the participation of approximately 15 Professional Guidance Practitioners and Trainers.
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.
The management of career - essential part of the modern educational system
Based on the experience of all people involved in building and professional orientation process, the participants attempted to identify the needs of those implicated in formation and orientation act, to detect methods, tools and efficient educational resources in management of the career.
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.
In Ancona (Italy), we had the opportunity to meet Professor Ronald Sultana, University of Malta, director of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research. He is one of the world's leading experts in career guidance.
Professor Sultana, in Italy, as in other contries, Regions, Cities and Local Authorities are engaged in the construction of local guidance systems to help people to choose and manage their educational and professional careers throughout their lifetime. A great challenge for the future: what do you think?
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.
The International Training in Barcelona (April 2016) will be a great opportunity for teachers, guidance practitioners, educators, tutors and trainers from all Europe, for sharing ideas, for learning new career guidance models and for testing guidance tools and training resources. The main aim of this international "twinning training" is learning from each other's the methodological and pedagogical aspects of a new "Career Management Skills" framework as base for a European Lifelong Guidance System.
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