C\'est la structure nationale universitaire de formation initiale et continue des praticiens de l\'orientation en Allemagne.  Elle a été l\'un des fondateurs du projet d\'échanges et, dès 1994, a participé au premier stage transnational organisé par l\'académie de Créteil.

C\'est la structure nationale universitaire de formation initiale et continue des praticiens de l\'orientation en Allemagne.  Elle a été l\'un des fondateurs du projet d\'échanges et, dès 1994, a participé au premier stage transnational organisé par l\'académie de Créteil.

A.S.B.L. \"Orientation à 12\" BE partenaire depuis 1994 dans Academia a intégré la dimension européenne dans l\'orientation bien avant, par sa proximité avec la Commission, par sa coopération historique avec la France (proximité géographique et historique).

Elle participe à la formation continue de professionnels de l\'orientation belges et étrangers (Projet ACADEMIA) 2. Le centre Euroguidance de la Communauté française Wallonie-Bruxelles fait partie d\'un réseau de 50 centres de ressources pour l\'orientation professionnelle présent dans plus de 30 pays d\'Europe. Il propose :

• les informations et conseils sur les études, les formations professionnelles, les stages, les bourses, les échanges linguistiques, dans les autres Etats membres, aux jeunes et aux adultes.
• les informations sur les programmes européens et assistance dans la recherche de partenaires.

VIA University College is a merger of various centres for further education, started on the 1st of January 2008. VIA offers medium long continuous educations in the Region of Middle Jutland, has a total annual turnover of about 200 millions € and employs about 2000 people.

VIA's division for continuous studies takes care of the activities for the fully-trained professionals, for institutions and organisations within the fields covered by VIA University College. 

The activities range from educational studies, health care, social studies, leadership, technical and commercial fields. Many activities are cross-disciplinary, and subject knowledges can be combined in new ways. For example the division for continuous studies offers the diploma of educational and vocational guidance. Within this field there are 4 full-time employees - all of them with an academic degree.

The division for continuous studies cooperates broadly with public and private companies and institutions in the mid-Jutland area and has an extensive range of contacts to unions, local, regional, and central authorities. The division networks with other university colleges, universities, business academies, private actors and international co-operators.

The division for continuous studies has an annual turnover of more than 25 million €, occupies about 130 full-time employees and a great number of teachers from the professional high schools together with part-time teachers and external experts. The division is located on 6 addresses and is operating all over the region of Mid Jutland.  

El CNROP en España, está adscrito al Servicio de Información y Orientación Profesional de la Subdirección General de Orientación y Formación Profesional, que depende de la Dirección General de Formación Profesional del Ministerio de Educación Política Social y Deporte.
Desde 1994 el CNROP viene desarrollando la dimensión europea de la orientación, facilitando y promoviendo la movilidad de los profesionales de los servicios de orientación para el intercambio de experiencias y buenas prácticas en el espacio europeo.

El CNROP en España, está adscrito al Servicio de Información y Orientación Profesional de la Subdirección General de Orientación y Formación Profesional, que depende de la Dirección General de Formación Profesional del Ministerio de Educación Política Social y Deporte.
Desde 1994 el CNROP viene desarrollando la dimensión europea de la orientación, facilitando y promoviendo la movilidad de los profesionales de los servicios de orientación para el intercambio de experiencias y buenas prácticas en el espacio europeo.

Foundation Innove has been established with the objective to promote initiatives and activities related to lifelong learning through Estonian and EU programmes in the area of human resource development. The Estonian Euroguidance Centre was founded in 1998 when the Euroguidance Network expanded to include the Associated Countries. Today Euroguidance Estonia incorporates all undertakings in the field of career guidance that take place within the Foundation Innove. Between years 2002-2004 this included some projects within the Phare programme, starting from the 2^nd half of 2004 the European Structural Funds are expected to bring some valuable input. The Ministry of Education and Research has appointed Euroguidance Estonia to implement all guidance related activities in the field of education within this European funding scheme.

Kristi Koort is the Academia contact in Innove

Foundation Innove has been established with the objective to promote initiatives and activities related to lifelong learning through Estonian and EU programmes in the area of human resource development. The Estonian Euroguidance Centre was founded in 1998 when the Euroguidance Network expanded to include the Associated Countries. Today Euroguidance Estonia incorporates all undertakings in the field of career guidance that take place within the Foundation Innove. Between years 2002-2004 this included some projects within the Phare programme, starting from the 2^nd half of 2004 the European Structural Funds are expected to bring some valuable input. The Ministry of Education and Research has appointed Euroguidance Estonia to implement all guidance related activities in the field of education within this European funding scheme.

Kristi Koort is the Academia contact in Innove

The Centre for International Mobility CIMO, an organisation operating under theFinnish Ministry of Education, offers services and expertise to encourage cross cultural communication and internationalisation. CIMO administers scholarship and exchange programmes and is responsible for implementing nearly all EU education, training, culture and youth programmes at national level. To support internationalisation of educational and training institutions in Finland, CIMO offers training, information, advisory services and publications. CIMO also promotes and organises international trainee exchanges. In addition, CIMO advances teaching of Finnish language and culture in universities abroad and arranges summer courses in Finnish language and culture for international students. CIMO also hosts the Finnish Euroguidance centre, and national Eurodesk office.

euroguidance@ac-strasbourg.fr

Le service académique d'information et d'orientation (SAIO) est chargé de mettre en oeuvre la politique académique dans le champ de l'information et de l'orientation et d'en évaluer ses résultats. Plus précisément ce service :

• impulse le développement de l'éducation à l'orientation dans les établissements,
• contribue au programme d'information et d'orientation tout au long de la vie, participe à la conception et à la mise en oeuvre de la formation continue en orientation des enseignants et des personnels d'orientation,
• favorise le partenariat dans le domaine de l'information et de l'orientation,
• analyse le fonctionnement de l'orientation,
• contribue à l'aménagement de la carte des formations,
• renforce la liaison entre l'enseignement secondaire et l'enseignement supérieur,
• met en oeuvre la politique d'animation et de gestion des Centres d'Information et d'Orientation,
• anime le partenariat européen dans le domaine de l'orientation.

The National Centre for Guidance is an agency of the Irish Department of Education and Science.

NCGE:
Informs the policy of the Department of Education and Science in the area of guidance
 
Promotes and supports strategies for the provision of guidance in the context of lifelong learning
 
Promotes and supports the implementation of best practice in guidance at all levels of education
 
Researches guidance practice and needs
 
Facilitates career development for guidance practitioners
 
Acts as a centre for the exchange of information on guidance at national and international level
 

The Research Liaison Office of the University of Iceland (RLO) is a forum for innovation within the academic society. It strengthens ties between university and industry and encourages relations between Icelandic researchers and colleagues in other countries. To fulfil it's purpose the RLO several different offices and projects linked with European co-operation, assistance with the start-up of companies and entrepreneurs

and assistance to the research society with funding, grants, contracts and intellectual Property Rights. Evropumiostôo names- og starfsraogjafa (Euroguidance Iceland) The Icelandic Euroguidance Center in Iceland is one of the semi-independent offices hosted by the RLO. It's main purpose is to support developments in guidance counselling in the country and enhance the awareness of the European dimension in counselling. By doing so the Iceland Euroguidance Centre takes part in European co-operation in this field as well being in close connection to local counsellors in different enterprises and institutions. Félag names- og starfraogjafa (The Icelandic Association of Career Counsellors. IACC). This is a non-profit organisation for Guidance Counsellors working with educational and vocational counselling. Members are mainly practitioners in schools, employment offices and larger enterprises. The IACC and the Icelandic Euroguidance Centre work in close co-operation in different projects related to counselling and in the field of enhancing quality counselling in the country.

Carpiformazione is a Vocational training centre specialized in the field of the design and implementation of training courses and services related to fashion, textile and clothing. Carpiformazione has been established in 1981 by the Emilia Romagna Region; at the end of the nineties it has become an Institution of the municipality.

Actually the Centre is a public corporation, formed by the Municipality of Carpi and several municipalities of the region.

Carpiformazione, in addition to the activities strictly linked to the vocational training, takes part  in several  European  Community Programmes  (transnational projects) for the initial/ continuing training, placements, stages in Europe (es. Force, Euroform, Leonardo, Adapt, Employment and Socrates Programmes) with a role going from the design of the application project, to the preparing of survey tools (in case of a research project), from the results analysis and evaluation,  to the singling out of the training needs, either as Contractor of the project or as partner in Italian and foreign projects.

The Centre activity (about 7500 hours of education for 300 students a year) is mainly due to a highly specialized staff of people working in the Organization, but also benefits of the collaboration of professionals and consultants coming from the enterprises, the University and the various fields of the fashion world. About this topic, in Carpiformazione work a staff composed by a managing director, four project  designers and project managers, a person in charge of the Administration, three clerks in charge of the accountancy and front office.

Host organisation only Centro Risorse Nazionale per l'Orientamento is the Euroguidance centre for Italy, his role is to facilitate and promote the European educational mobility and the acquisition of job experience throughout Europe. It provides a range of services to Italian Guidance professionals and operators for helping young people, students and workers interested in becoming a real European citizen.

The Centre is involved in many different activities for organising transnational informational events, conferences, workshops and seminars, producing specialised informational media (newsletters, brochures, publications etc..) about every European Country, promoting vocational training courses in Italy and other European Countries, exchanging valuable information and experience with other network resource centres and managing a forum on internet website to improve the cooperation between organisations offering guidance services and the final users.

Euroguidance Norway is a national resource center for career guidance. The overall purpose of Euroguidance Norway is to develop the European dimension in career guidance.

Euroguidance Norway is a part of The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Trainin and the Euroguidance team is a part of the career guidance team within the directorate.

The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training is responsible for the development of primary and secondary education. The Directorate is the executive agency for the Ministry of Education and Research.  In this capacity the Directorate has the overall responsibility for supervising education and the governance of the education sector, as well as the implementation of Acts of Parliament and regulations. The Directorate is also responsible for managing the Norwegian Support System for Special Education (Statped), state-owned schools and the educational direction of the National Education Centers.

The Directorate was established on 15 June 2004.

The Directorate participates in international co-operation through about 100 different projects, efforts and initiatives. The main bulk of activity takes place through EC and the European Council, OECD and the Nordic Council of Ministers, but there is also cooperative activity with other actors, like UN (UNESCO) and IEA (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement).

The Directorate is further responsible for carrying through, providing information about and/or follow-up on different kinds of bi-lateral international programmes and efforts. This includes co-operation with national actors involved in different kinds of mobility, exchange and documentation arrangements.

Voivodeship Labour Office in Katowice (VLO) is the organisational entity of the regional government established on the basis of the statute of 31 March 2000 on the change of the statue of employment and combating unemployment (Journal of Laws, No 31, item 384). The VLO operates on the territory of the Slaskie Voivodeship (Silesia).
The main activities of the VLO refer to carrying out tasks commissioned by the regional government within the scope of employment promotion and labour market reviving, preparing analyses and evaluation reports on employment and combating unemployment in the region, developing regional programmes that follow regional development strategy and define the regional social policy.
One of the vital documents that considerably influence the situation of the unemployed population in the region of Slaskie Voivodeship is the Regional Action Plan for Employment. It defines a specific approach of how to deal with the issue of unemployment in Silesia by following and developing Employment Strategy key priorities concerning employment promotion, reducing unemployment effects, human resources development and job activation.
Poland\'s accession to the European Union has provided our institution with new opportunities to undertake more activities in favour of improving local labour market and, as a result, reducing unemployment. We have a well-developed EURES (European Employment Service) department which is a network of cooperation within public employment services aiming to facilitate the free movement of workers within the European Economic Area. EURES department promotes geographical and professional workers\' mobility providing information, advice and help to job seekers interested to undertake employment abroad as well as to employers who want to hire workers from other EU member states. Polish qualified workers, both professionals such as engineers, doctors as well as labourers like construction, agriculture and catering staff are recognized by overseas employers.
The key mission of the Voivodeship Labour Office is to promote employment, reduce unemployment effects and stimulate job activation aiming to reach high rate of employment, human resources development, high quality of work as well as foster social inclusion. By becoming familiarized with the activities carried out by the Voivodeship Labour Office would be very helpful for every individual entering labour market in search for job offers, statistical data, reports and analyses, training programmes for both, the unemployed and professionals as well as receiving support while setting up own business and seeking for qualified workers.

According to Education Law 84/1995, the Institute of Educational Sciences Romania (IES) is the national research authority having the status of an autonomous body, within the Ministry of Education and Research. As a national institute for research and development in education, IES aims to put forth the education policies and decisions by the scientific studies and data, to analyze needs and issues of the educational system in Romania, to support the innovation and the reform of the national education system.

According to Education Law 84/1995, the Institute of Educational Sciences Romania (IES) is the national research authority having the status of an autonomous body, within the Ministry of Education and Research. As a national institute for research and development in education, IES aims to put forth the education policies and decisions by the scientific studies and data, to analyze needs and issues of the educational system in Romania, to support the innovation and the reform of the national education system.

At national level NCIPS operates in a network connecting different organisations and institutions which produce or collect quality information about education and training opportunities. NCIPS functions as a centre that co-ordinates the flow of such information between separate partners and users. It also provides services (professional support) to vocational and information centres and other users, but it does not directly counsel visitors to vocational information centres.

Besides collecting and producing information about vocational training and labour market, the centre provides descriptions of occupations, video-presentations of professions and certain information of national importance (such as information about universities, studies, financial aid, etc.). As its main priority is to connects, collect and distribute existing information and material, NCIPS prepares informative material and databases mainly for those fields where such material does not yet exist (e.g. organisation of writing descriptions of occupations).

Trough the Euroguidance network NRCVG\\\\\\\'s act as a link between the guidance services of each member country, enabling in this way the exchange of information about study and training opportunities throughout Europe. The NRCVG network is funded by the European Commission (Directorate-General for Education and Culture – EAC), which views it as a mechanism for promoting the mobility of pupils, students, teachers and young workers between European countries.

Åsa Sundelin is the sending coordinator and Tommy Ripmarken is the receiving coordinator.

THE SWEDISH ASSOCIATION OF GUIDANCE , (SAGC) was founded in 1975 and is a non-profit making organisation whose goals are to :

Influence society to eliminate educational and occupational injustices and to further everyone rights to opportunities in education, training and work.

Stimulate discussion and debate on issues concerning educational and vocational guidance. improve educational and vocational guidance with regard to content, ethics, methods and organisation. Encourage research on educational and vocations guidance.

Support the members of the association in other principle matters than those that can be referred to the trade unions.

Encourage co-operation between all counsellors.

Actively strive for co-operation between other countries in questions concerning educational and vocational guidance.

Members.

SAGC is an organisation for counsellors working educational and vocational guidance. The association has today approximately 1200 members and is open to those who agree with and accept the association\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s goals. The members are mainly practitioners in schools, employment offices, job rehabilitation centres and other counsellors.

organisation

The concept of the association is based on the activities of the local or regional associations. The central comities encourages, supports and co-ordinates their activities.

The Swedish Association for Guidance Counsellors (SAGC) arranges an annual two-days conference concerned with current topics within the fields of educational and vocational guidance counselling, education and societal change.

SAGC publishes a quarterly journal, Vägledaren I utbildning och arbetsliv (The Educational and Vocational Guidance Counsellor). The journal is a forum for debate, information about current affairs, recent research findings and developments within educational and vocational guidance counselling.

Åsa Sundelin is the sending coordinator and Tommy Ripmarken is the receiving coordinator.

THE SWEDISH ASSOCIATION OF GUIDANCE , (SAGC) was founded in 1975 and is a non-profit making organisation whose goals are to :

Influence society to eliminate educational and occupational injustices and to further everyone rights to opportunities in education, training and work.

Stimulate discussion and debate on issues concerning educational and vocational guidance. improve educational and vocational guidance with regard to content, ethics, methods and organisation. Encourage research on educational and vocations guidance.

Support the members of the association in other principle matters than those that can be referred to the trade unions.

Encourage co-operation between all counsellors.

Actively strive for co-operation between other countries in questions concerning educational and vocational guidance.

Members.

SAGC is an organisation for counsellors working educational and vocational guidance. The association has today approximately 1200 members and is open to those who agree with and accept the association\'s goals. The members are mainly practitioners in schools, employment offices, job rehabilitation centres and other counsellors.

organisation

The concept of the association is based on the activities of the local or regional associations. The central comities encourages, supports and co-ordinates their activities.

The Swedish Association for Guidance Counsellors (SAGC) arranges an annual two-days conference concerned with current topics within the fields of educational and vocational guidance counselling, education and societal change.

SAGC publishes a quarterly journal, Vägledaren I utbildning och arbetsliv (The Educational and Vocational Guidance Counsellor). The journal is a forum for debate, information about current affairs, recent research findings and developments within educational and vocational guidance counselling.