Good practices in guidance and counselling Sperana Lavinia ibu - Euroguidance Romania Keeping Young People in Employment, Education and/or Training: Common challenges - Shared Solutions, Bucharest, March 2014

EUROGUIDANCE – who we are? Euroguidance is a European network of national resource and information centres for guidance. The Euroguidance network has been establish by the European Commission in 1992 Today: 66 centres in 34 countries

Aims, objectives, activities Providing quality information on lifelong guidance and mobility for learning purposes 2005 Malta 2007 Romania 2006 The Netherlands

Aims, objectives, activities Providing quality information on lifelong guidance and mobility for learning purposes Euroguidance collects, disseminates and exchanges information on: international mobility opportunities education, training and guidance systems in the EU and EEA member states and the candidate countries European initiatives and programmes within the field of education, training and mobility project results, innovative working methods and good practice in the field of lifelong guidance

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EUROGUIDANCE ROMANIA Hosted by the Institute of Education Sciences Bucharest Established in 1999 Vist our website: LIKE! On Facebook

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Aims Euroguidance Romania informing policies supporting exchanges of good practices making known practitioners voices and needs interface between European policies and practitioners

Our benneficiaries – whom do we serve? Directly School guidance counsellors – 2171 practitioners Guidance counsellors from universities – 27 centres Indirectly Teachers, pupils, parents, policy makers

What is the goal of guidance and counselling? “The major goal of guidance is to build the career management skills of all citizens” “It is an integral part of several measures to support young people, such as the reintegration of early school-leavers, measures to foster employability or measures to remove practical or logistical barriers” Youth Guarantee and Lifelong Guidance, European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN) – Concept note October 2013

“ build up career guidance structures systematically and extensively [...] so that school-leavers are in a position to make sound career choices which take account of the labour market context. The availability of career advice from an early stage, i.e. before individuals leave school, can substantially contribute to the accomplishment of the Youth Guarantee ”. At the high-level Conference on the promotion of youth employment in Europe held in Berlin in July 2013, German Federal Chancellor Merkel

“Effective career guidance provision is essential to support pupils during transition periods, especially in the course of their education” NEETs - Young people not in employment, education or training: Characteristics, costs and policy responses in Europe. European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions 2012

Guidance counsellors: Developing career management skills require well-established career education during compulsory schooling Counsellors are key workers to catch the attention of young people who are NEET, help the orientation process An agent of change to help young people through transitions (from school to work, work to work, or work to school).

Germany : supporting pupils in making an informed choice about their career. Example: “Qualifications and connections” is a four-year programme (transition) Pupils in grades seven or eight participate in an analysis of their potential, interests and aspirations. They also receive occupational guidance. Students in their penultimate school year profit from mentoring and oversight until the completion of their first year in vocational training. Finland : “Occupational start” offers young people who are unsure about their educational trajectory and career direction an alternative programme during which they can find out about different occupations. Slovakia : specific support to children from migrant backgrounds or to Roma children (Slovakia) Malta : focusing support on pupils with special educational needs Romania : Guiance and counselling curricula (grades 1-12), Personal development curricula (grades 0-2) – developing career management skills, communication skills, self-knowledge International good practices

Romanian good practices Marcela Caludia Călineci – CMBRAE Bucharest Irina Ermolaev – CJRAE Constana

Thank you! Sperana ibu Coordinator Euroguidance Romania