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Start date: Oct 1, 2014,
End date: Sep 30, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
The main objective of the Foundation Innove is to coordinate the lifelong learning development activities and implement the relevant programmes and projects and the EU structural aid in a targeted and efficient manner. National Resource Centre for Guidance (NRCG) aka Estonian Euroguidance (EG) Centre, operates in the foundation with the aim to support guidance practitioners in promoting mobility and the European dimension within education and training and in the field of lifelong guidance. NRCG has become the main partner of Ministry of Education and Research in developing the Estonian lifelong guidance services system. As the Estonian EG centre, NRCG belongs to the Academia network, which has been operating for over 15 years with the aim to support career practitioners to become familiar with relevant developments and trends in Europe in the field of lifelong guidance. There are no regular accredited basic training programmes offered to the career specialists in the public universities, therefor it is essential to provide a consistent possibility of different high quality courses.
The main goal of this project is to provide an opportunity for the specialists working in the field of lifelong guidance, to gain new experience and knowledge from other European countries and to disseminate best practices among other practitioners in Estonia. With this project we aim to improve the professional abilities of the practitioners and the quality of guidance services provided by them. The multinational study visit groups are of added value – this provides the opportunity to learn from several counties’ practices all at once. Last but not least, all the other participants benefit also from Estonian experiences, shared by Estonian guidance specialists. It is also essential to raise the awareness of the practitioners about mobility as one possibility in lifelong learning. By providing this opportunity to the practitioners, they can have a personal mobility experience and this helps to better realise and promote the value of mobility to others. Besides that, the communication abilities and growth of professional network, along with improved language skills, can be seen as the benefit of this project.
Main target group of this project are specialists working in the field of lifelong guidance. As are no accredited basic training programmes for career specialists, our practitioners have various educational backgrounds; most of them are either psychologists, information specialists, youth workers or teachers. During the study visit in spring 2015, ten specialists from the field of lifelong guidance will be visiting their colleagues in different European countries.
As the first step in implementing the project, we will launch a call for application among our target group. Based on the application, the selection procedure will be carried through, with the main criteria for successful applicants being working experience in the selected field, language skills and dissemination plans of the project results. There will be an information day organised for the participants, where they learn about practicalities, conditions and the project in general. Then we will sign contracts with the participants and carry on with practical arrangements. The participants have to prepare a personal development plan at least two weeks before the study visit, where they state both their personal goals and methods how to reach them along with planned dissemination activities. In the II quarter of 2015, one-week study visits will take place. After the visits, all participants must fill in relevant feedback forms and reports and foundation Innove will produce compendiums in order to disseminate the results of this project. There will be also a dissemination seminar organised, which is open to everybody.
The promoter provides participants practical and logistical support during the whole project. Foundation Innove will make most of the travel arrangements. To solve possible problems during the study visit, all parties involved in this visit (the promoter, hosting partner and the participant) will exchange contact details. During the study visit, the project coordinator in foundation Innove, will be in contact with the hosting organisation and if necessary also with the participant.