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Increasing participation: the role of outreached activities and guidance - Workshop 3

Increasing participation: the role of outreached activities and guidance - Workshop 3. Raimo Vuorinen, Ph.D. Coordinator of the ELGPN Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä, Finland It ’s always a good time to learn

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Increasing participation: the role of outreached activities and guidance - Workshop 3

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  1. Increasing participation: the role of outreached activities and guidance- Workshop 3 Raimo Vuorinen, Ph.D. Coordinator of the ELGPNFinnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä, Finland It ’s always a good time to learn Final conference of the Adult Learning Action Plan 7-9 March 2011, Budapest, Hungary

  2. ELGPN in brief: • The European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN) aims to assist the European Union Member States (and the neighbouring countries eligible for the EU Lifelong Learning Programme) and the European Commission in developing European co-operation on lifelong guidance in both the education and the employment sectors, particularly through the Open Method of Co-ordination. • Lifelong guidance covers all activities designed to help individuals, at any point in their lives, to make educational, training and occupational choices and to manage their careers.

  3. Definition of Lifelong Guidance • What? Activities: e.g.information giving, advice, counselling, assessment, teaching, advocacy • For whom/With who? All citizens • When? Any age and point in their lives • Focus? Making meaningful life choices on learning and work. Empowerment to manage learning and career • Career? Individual lifepaths in learning, work and in others settings in which these capcities and competences are learned and/or used • Where? Education, training, employment, community, private • EU Council of Ministries Resolution on lifelong guidance 2004

  4. EU Council: Invitations to Member States 21.11.2008 • Encourage the lifelong acquisition of career management skills; • Facilitate access by all citizens to guidance services; • Develop the quality assurance of guidance provision; • Encourage coordination and cooperation among the various national, regional and local stakeholders. • Use the opportunities provided under the Lifelong Learning Programme and the European Structural Funds, in accordance with Member States' priorities.

  5. Lifelong Guidance and future EU Strategies • The priorities in the key strategies and flagship initiatives imply the active role of citizens through acquistision of CMS • The role and locus of lifelong guidance in this respect needs to be more widely recognized

  6. Themes for previous policy recommendations • Lifelong Career Management Skills • Validation of non-formal and informal learning • Differentiated service delivery modes • Competence profiles of service providers • Workplace guidance • Co-operation and co-ordination • Outreached services

  7. Definition of CMS • “Career management skills refer to a whole range of competences which provide structured ways for individuals and groups to gather, analyse, synthesise and organise self, educational and occupational information, as well as the skills to make and implement decisions and transitions.” • ELGPN WP1 reflection note (Sultana 2009)

  8. Question 1: • What kind of activities, services and provisions should be developed and implemented by national/regional/local authorities in the Member States in order to promote public awareness of the importance of participating in adult learning and to raise the visibility of adult learning in general?

  9. Question 2: • What are the main challenges for policy-makers at national and regional level in terms of strengthening coordination and cooperation between education and employment-related aspects in the field of guidance for adult learners?

  10. Question 3: • What kind of mechanism do we need to strengthen the cooperation between Adult Learning and Guidance at EU and MS level, and exploit the Open Method of Coordination (OMC)?

  11. Question 4: • How should the European Commission support the development of effective strategies for raising the awareness of the need to engage in adult learning and making adult learning more attractive?

  12. Thank you! For further information, please contact: Raimo Vuorinen, Senior researcher, Ph.D. Co-ordinator of the ELGPN Finnish Institute for Educational Research P.O. Box 35 FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä tel. +358-14-2603271, Mobile +358-50-3611909 Fax +358-14-2603201 email: raimo.vuorinen@jyu.fi www: http://elgpn.eu/ Skype: vuorai

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