Ergo in Net

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Resources for Mobility

ERGO IN NET
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Careers Europe

• UK Resource Centre
• UK Euroguidance Centre
• Academia
• Promote mobility and
• foreign language learning
• Many European
• projects

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Resources for Mobility

• A vast amount of information for guidance
  practitioners
• Too much to mention everything here in the time
  but will give an overview.
• www.ergoinnet.net

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General Information

• European Commission http//ec.europa.eu/
• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
  Development www.oecd.org/
• Websites have a number of reports, research and
  documents regarding mobility and the vital part
  that career guidance counsellors have to play in
  this system.

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Fit for Europe

• A Leonardo project with a lot of information on
  education, study and work in 31 European
  countries.
• General country information
• National anthems
• Language tests
• www links
• Education systems
• Recognition of qualifications
• Work
• www.fit-for-europe.info

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Training for guidancepractitioners

• The Leonardo project EGEIS developed a model
  training course to train European guidance
  counsellors www.egeis.net
• An important example of training opportunities in
  a lifelong learning perspective is the European
  Academia Project funded by the Leonardo
  programme, which provides two-week placements for
  guidance counsellors in other European countries
• www.ac-creteil.fr/steurop/welcome.html

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Networking at a European Level

• Euroguidance
• Eurodesk
• Eures
• CEDEFOP
• Guidenet
• Fedora
• Guidance Forum
• The European Guidance and Counselling Research
  Forum

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Euroguidance

• The network of the NRCVG - National Resource
  Centres for Vocational Guidance.
• Promotes ideas, information, guidance tools,
  training opportunities for counsellors, mobility
  throughout Europe, and an active and professional
  community of guidance counsellors
  www.euroguidance.net

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Euro Desk

• Multi-Level Structure
• HQ in Brussels
• Disseminates to local points (around 600 local
  relay points across Europe)
• Disseminates information regarding youth targeted
  programmes across Europe (around 30 countries)
• www.eurodesk.org

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Eures

• Provide information, advice and recruitment /
  placement services for the benefit of workers and
  employers
• Individuals can use the website or contact an
  advisor for information regarding
• Job vacancies
• The European Labour Market
• Working conditions in other EU countries
• http//ec.europa.eu/eures/index.jsp

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CEDEFOP

• The European Centre for the Development of
  Vocational Training is a European agency that
  helps promote and develop vocational education
  and training in the European Union (EU). It is
  the EU's reference centre for vocational
  education and training. www.cedefop.gr 
• Cedefop has developed a virtual community of
  practitioners, policymakers and researchers, it
  is known as the European Training Village.
  www.trainingvillage.gr

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Guidenet

• A pilot project promoted by Careers Europe,
  funded by Leonardo da Vinci Community Programme
• Transnational expert network, to collect, assess
  and analyse all information on guidance related
  initiatives, enabling its dissemination to the
  widest possible user base, within the guidance
  operator community in Europe.
• www.guidenet.org

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FEDORA

• Forum européen de l'orientation académique.
  FEDORA is an association for those involved in
  all aspects of student guidance in institutions
  of higher education in Europe.
• www.fedora.eu.org

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GUIDANCEFORUM

• A network for discussion, documentation, research
  and training in careers and educational guidance
  for adults via the Internet.
• www.guidanceforum.net

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THE EUROPEAN GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING RESEARCH
FORUM

• Leonardo da Vinci project which aims to pilot the
  development of a network for guidance and
  counselling, to bring research and practice
  closer to improve services to clients.
• www.guidance-europe.org

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Labour Market Information

• International Institute for Labour Studies
  www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inst/index.htm
  
• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
  Development (OECD) www.oecd.org/
• Human Development Reports http//hdr.undp.org/pub
  lications
• International Monetary Fund (publications)
  www.imf.org/external/pubind.htm
• For statistics Eurostat http//epp.eurostat.cec.
  eu.int
• Specially for job vacancies in the European
  Economic Area (EEA) http//europa.eu.int/eures

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Internships

• Organised internships programmes
• Eurodyssee
• Sesame
• Student associations offering internship
  programmes or exchanges
• IAESTE - The International Association for the
  Exchange of Students for Technical Experience
• BEST- Board of European Students of Technology
• AIESEC - International Association of Students in
  Economic and Business Sciences
• ELSA - European Law Student Association

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Eurodyssee

• Eurodyssee is an exchange programme offering
  young people aged between 18 and 30, from the
  participating regions, the opportunity to carry
  out a traineeship experience placement
• www.eurodyssee.net

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Sesame

• This service for exchanges and agricultural
  placements in the world is an association that
  offers placements in France each year for young
  foreigners, as well as courses elsewhere in the
  world for young French people.
• www.agriplanete.com

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PLOTEUS

• Portal on Learning Opportunities throughout the
  European Space
• PLOTEUS aims to help students, job seekers,
  workers, parents, guidance counsellors and
  teachers to find out information about studying
  in Europe.
• http//europa.eu.int/ploteus/portal/home.jsp

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Links to EC programmes supporting mobility for
education and training

• Socrates (Education)
• Comenius School education
• Erasmus Higher education
• Gruntvig Adult education
• Lingua Language learning
• Minerva ICT in education
• Leonardo da Vinci (Vocational education)
• And others
• http//ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/programm
  es_en.html

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Recognition of qualifications for study

• Academic Recognition Information Centres network
• The NARIC network can provide information and
  advice on recognition of diplomas and study
  periods in EU countries
• www.enic-naric.net

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Europass

• Europass is split into 5 components
• Curriculum Vitae
• Diploma Supplement
• Certificate Supplement
• Language Passport
• Mobility
• Helps to increase the transparency of both
  formal and non formal learning
• http//europass.cedefop.europa.eu/

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Legal Issues

• For all legalities within the EU countries the
  European Commissions website has an enormous
  amount of information that is kept updated
• http//europa.eu.int/youreurope/
• Check websites of embassies, consulates, Labour
  Ministries, European Health Insurance and sites
  about culture.

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Thank you! Cécile Besrest-Butler