Transcript Career Guidance Services in Austria

National LLG-Co-Ordination
in Austria
Euroguidance
Cross Border Seminar
Bratislava, 15th April 2010
Gerhard Krötzl, Austria
[email protected]
Key elements
Clear strategic approach
 Invitation of all relevant stakeholders in a National
task group
 Establishment of a “National Steering Group”
 Common “wording”, understanding and terminology
 Support for regional stakeholders
 Documentation, analysis, review
 Reflection of the OECD Country Note Austria
 First key findings for an Austrian Strategy for
Lifelong Guidance
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Key stakeholders providing CG
Government
Employers
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Employees
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Holistic View of „Guidance”
“A range of activities designed to assist people to make
decisions about their lives (educational, vocational,
personal) and to implement those decisions”
e.g.
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Information
Counseling
Orientation
Working Experiences
Career Development
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Results and effects
of the process
Main results of these processes were:
 Implementation Career Guidance and Counselling as
political task into the new governmental programme
 Guidance and counselling in school, in the field of
employment and labour market, in adult education as an
essential part in gov. LLL and employment
 Strategies in concepts of the Austrian Social partners
 Austrian National Report 2007 on the implementation of
the education and training 2010 work programme to EU:
official position Strategy Lifelong Guidance
 National programme planning document, Austria,
European Social Fund strategic, operational goals,
measures, europ. and nat. fundings for LLG projects
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LLG in Austria‘s LLL-Strategy
5 Guidelines:
1. Orientation towards life phases
2. Putting learners in the centre
3. Lifelong Guidance
4. Competence orientation
5. Support of the participation in LLL
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National LLG-Strategy:
Programmatic Goals
(1) Implementation of basic competences for
educational career and life planning in all
curricula.
(2) Focus on process optimization and support.
(3) Professionalization of counsellors and
trainers.
(4) Quality assurance and evaluation of
provision, processes and structures
(5) Widening access – creating provision for
new target groups
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European project engagement
 Call Joint Action “European Guidance
Forum”
(AT co-ord, partner CZ,
DE, FI, FR, PL)
 Strong interaction between national and
European processes concerning LLG
policies and strategies
 Progress in LLG coop. and co-ord. in all
partner countries
 preparation and establishment of ELGPN
with Expert Group and European
Commission
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Plans for 2011-2012
 Further contributions to fulfil Government’s
program in LLG
 Implementing multi-dimensional models for
fostering Career Management Skills in
schools
 Further steps towards higher
professionalism of guidance workers
 Fostering co-ordination on regional and
local level
 Strengthen the evidence base for LLG in
Austria
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