Fifteen years after the OECD report on Career Guidance (2004) (CG) systems and ten years after the ELGPN publication on Career Guidance Policies in Europe (2009) this workshop will invite practitioners and experts from central European countries (particularly Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia) to review the actual state of CG policy and practice and the needs for further developments in these countries.
The workshop assumes that CG has reflected the changes in our societies and labour markets. Whether we focus on high or low qualified people and their particular chances and problems in the world of work, CG practice and CG policies in our countries have reacted to these challenges and developed further.
The workshops will put the central questions from the conference on the table and invite practitioners and experts to contribute with their reflections about the actual state and developmental needs in their countries:
• To what extent does CG and career development affect individual’s position on the labour market and the mobility of individuals in their working life?
• Does CG and career development help to prevent social marginalization and exclusion? Did the role of the career guidance and career development change in recent years?
• Is there a change in the roles and objectives/conceptualizations of career guidance in the countries?
• What is the role of teachers, career guidance practitioners, and career guidance education in preparing young generation for 4.0 labour market?
• How are CG practitioners prepared in the light of actual challenges and the new roles of CG in the different systems?
• What policy framework needs to exist for effective career guidance and career development?
• Is CG (still) seen as a marginalized policy area or is there a change in the relevance?
The moderator of the workshop will invite representatives of the Central Europen Countries to prepare themselves to reflect on the questions of the conference and contribute to the discussion in the workshop. The workshop will make use of a dynamic methodology to bring participants into discussion and to involve the people in active networking activities. The workshop might be an opener for further exchange between the involved countries for further discussions.