Guidance merger 2002-S/02/B/F/PP

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1 Guidance merger 2002-S/02/B/F/PP

2 Information sur le projet Titre: Code Projet: Année: 2002 Guidance merger 2002-S/02/B/F/PP Type de Projet: Projets Pilotes ( ) Statut: Accroche marketing: Clôturé Guidance Merger is a Leonardo project with an ambition to create innovative methods for guidance for adults in employment. What is guidance and what do we need it for? Guidance is useful in helping the individual to take important and long-term decisions about his/her life in a world of contingency, insecurity and unpredictability. In a quickly changing labour market where mobility is a central ingredient there is an urgent need for guidance counselling and continuous lifelong learning, especially for those groups with a weak position on the labour market. The need for guidance is more urgent today because the connection between a certain education and a specifi c job is less clear. Guidance counselling is also useful for a company, which will analyse and plan learning activities. Learning and education of the employees is becoming more important in a quickly changing and competitive world. Organisational change with a focus on fl exibility, custom-orientation, high quality, innovation etc. makes learning a necessity and will become competitive advantage for a company, which invest in their staff. Guidance can include a lot of things information, advice, assessment, teaching, enabling, advocating, networking, evaluation, feed back, managing, innovation, mentoring, signposting etc. Guidance is an interactive process where a professional career counsellor with conversation as the most signifi cant tool helps individuals in handling problems about their training and education. The guidance counselling must start from the participants own unique needs and support them in their decisionmaking about learning, which is related to their work and thereby associated paths of living. We will not try to defi ne guidance counselling in detail, but instead see it as a multifaceted activity characterised by professionalism and good ethics carried out in complex situations in diverse contexts. Résumé: The evaluation of the Leonardo-project has given us a lot of valuable information that we have tried to analyse. We have seen how fruitful a combination of guidance and learning can be. The target group for the Leonardo project was the employee and the employers. We have stressed the interest of the employers in introducing a programme for lifelong learning. The employer perspective is not well developed in guidance counselling. We think it is an important aspect in organising learning at work and using guidance as an instrument in workplace learning. The employers must fi nd it worthwhile to invest in training in a long-term perspective. 2

3 Information sur le projet We have contrasted such a demand-based strategy with a traditional supply-based strategy, which is developed and implemented by public authorities often by a top-down strategy. Our own project tries to bridge the gap between these two models. We have pointed to the risk organising projects, which keep the gap between the private and public system intact. We have pointed to the contrast between these two models (see table 1), but a successful strategy for lifelong learning must be able to integrate these opposites poles in a joint strategy for change. How this integration can be done is a continuous challenge for our project. We think that different intermediaries like learning centres, industry and developmental centres, brokerage agencies, colleges, etc. are necessary to bridge the gap between the public and private (the educational and work system). We have argued for an extended role of the guidance counsellor. It is a role, which incorporates traditional elements of putting the individual employee in the center, a professional attitude, and a high ethical morale with new demands. It is a challenge for the guidance counsellors to take on these new demands in approaching the employers for a close co-operation and in organising a supportive structure for learning and guidance. What is need is a qualifi ed training and education of the guidance counsellors to take on these new demands and challenges. This could be task and the objective for a developmental work in the future. Part of it could be organised as a transnational project. It has been useful for the learning and evaluation in this project to compare the situation in different countries. We hope that our report can be used in a dialogue in such developmental work. The target group for the dissemination phase will be guidance counsellors, employers, union representatives, teachers, educational providers etc. Description: Thèmes: Sectors: Types de Produit: Information sur le produit: *** Formation tout au long de la vie *** Orientation professionnelle *** Entreprise, TPE, PME The project has been been evaluated by Lennart Svennson from the NIWL, National Institute for Work Life in Sweden. The evaluations and reports are based on examples and case studies of advice and guidance work being undertaken with employers in the partner countries. The project has produced summaries and recommendations for those involved in the process of offering advice and guidance to those in employment. This includes employers, employees, guidance counsellors and also other supportive organisations involved in workforce development. The project has produced the following main products: Project Summary Report: A summary of the recommendations of the project. To download a copy of the summary report please visit the website. 3

4 Information sur le projet The project final report: A detailed analysis of the report. To download a copy of the final report please visit the website. Case Studies: Examples of advice and guidance being offered to those in employment in the partner countries. Page Web du projet: Evaluation Visits: Visits by project partners to evaluate the guidance offered to those in employment in the other partner countries. 4

5 Contractant du projet CFL (centre for flexible learning), municipality of Söderhamn Söderhamn Norra Mellansverige Institution publique Personne de contact Adresse: Téléphone: Fax: Site internet: Klas Tallvid Söderhamn, sweden Söderhamn

6 Coordinateur CFL (centre for flexible learning), municipality of Söderhamn Söderhamn Norra Mellansverige Institution publique Personne de contact Adresse: Téléphone: Fax: Site internet: Klas Tallvid Söderhamn, sweden Söderhamn

7 Partenaire Partner 1 Divisione Risorse Orientamento e Lavoro di ASTER soc. cons. p.a Bologna Emilia-Romagna IT-Italie Association/organisation non gouvermentale Partner 2 Euro-WEA Brussels Bruxelles Cap, Brussel Hof BE-Belgique Association/organisation non gouvermentale Partner 3 Careers Europe Bradford West Yorkshire UK-Royaume-Uni Autres Partner 4 Business Link Leeds West Yorkshire UK-Royaume-Uni National Agency 7

8 Partenaire Partner 5 Employer Link, Bradford College Bradford West Yorkshire UK-Royaume-Uni National Agency Partner 6 Eurovision s.r.o Brno Praha CZ-Tchéquie Association/organisation non gouvermentale Partner 7 NIWL, National Institute for Working Life Stockholm Stockholm Institution de recherche 8