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A European Guidance Counselling Concept for International Youth Mobility

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2014-1-DE02-KA202-001610
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training Funder Contribution: 297,015 EUR

A European Guidance Counselling Concept for International Youth Mobility

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Europe's future depends on its youth. However, due to crises in many European countries, young people in particular are struggling with unemployment and lack of prospects. At the same time, according to an online-survey of EURES guidance counsellors in 2013, there is an increasing demand concerning qualified vocational, educational and professional guidance counsellors with regard to the areas of aptitude procedures, the classification of certificates into categories and evaluation of placement opportunities in the field of incoming and outgoing. Our project focuses on a practice-oriented European guidance counselling concept (eGuidance Concept), tailored to the international circular mobility of young people, who emigrate from their home country abroad as well as those who remigrate back to their country of origin, bringing along specific skills and intercultural competences. This concept imparted the basic methods of international career counselling and the essentials of the specific area knowledge as to how the international mobility processes of young people can be guided. It is also tailored to the advanced training of European guidance counsellors to answer the demand already mentioned and thus provides a best-practice model for European guidance counselling. Regarding the increasing demand for qualified guidance, the concept provides a best-practice manual of both guidance methods and content. It has been developed by universities with degree programmes in career counselling in close collaboration with experienced European guidance counsellors. The concept has been published and made available through an interactive e-Learning internet portal including a virtual classroom and e-Counselling facility. The manual has been conceptualized as a self-learning modular training programme, which allowed European guidance counsellors to gather and adopt basic methods and the essentials of the area knowledge needed in the field of international guidance of young people. Simultaneously, this interactive self-learning programme has been a concept for the sustainable implementation of advanced training methods for European guidance counsellors through a virtual e-Teaching classroom and served as a training unit for virtual e-Counselling dialogues. The concept and its components served as an advanced training programme for academically qualified guidance counsellors within the framework of a post-secondary and tertiary qualification.The project focused on 3 main outputs: 1. European Guidance Counselling Concept: It contains 7 modules, divided into basic methods and essentials of the area knowledge of guidance counselling. They are put into a manual, which is available not only in form of an interactive E-Learning internet training programme but also in form of documents available on the internet portal. The counselling concept, developed by the Federal Employment agency in 2010 and the handbooks of the projects BD-BG and Distance Counselling were used as a basis, which have been adapted to the specific needs of European guidance counsellors in the partner countries.2. Interactive E-Learning Internet Portal: The open source portal is primarily focused on the interactive process of counselling interviews containing basic guidance methods and the essentials of the specific area knowledge of the international mobility processes of young people, offering a practical training how to guide them up to exemplary dialogue sequences. The essentials of the area knowledge deal with different areas of international youth mobility.3. Advanced training through e-Teaching and e-Counselling: The European guidance concept has been the basis for advanced training measures for European guidance counsellors. These measures have been implemented in form of virtual e-Teaching trainings, which have been set up as an internet-based, modular application, allowing the training concept to be implemented in an open source virtual room. These trainings enabled guidance counsellors to conduct web-conferences and online meetings and carry out the advanced training methods of the European guidance concept. Furthermore the virtual classroom was used as a platform for virtual e-Counselling dialogues between counsellors and consultants.All three achievements have been made available in several languages, for mobile devices as well as for mobile applications. The first milestone was a draft of the eGuidance Concept. The second milestone was the open source interactive e-Learning internet portal. The third milestone was the implementation into advanced training methods through the use of an open source virtual e-Teaching classroom and the implementation of virtual e-Counselling dialogues. Some aspects of the previous EU-funded projects so far (e.g. EMAT, NICE, MEVOC, BD-BG, Distance Counselling and BeKo) have been integrated into our project and served as fundamental tools to be built on.

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