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During the Swedish EU Presidency in the first half of 2023, Cedefop is partnering with the Swedish Council for Higher Education, The National Agency for Education, and the Swedish Public Employment Service as well as the Swedish Association of Guidance Counsellors in organising an event to promote lifelong guidance in Euro...

During the Swedish EU Presidency in the first half of 2023, Cedefop is partnering with the Swedish Council for Higher Education, The National Agency for Education, and the Swedish Public Employment Service as well as the Swedish Association of Guidance Counsellors in organising an event to promote lifelong guidance in Europe: New Scenes for Career Guidance.

The event will be held on 31 May and 1 June 2023 in Stockholm. Cedefop is part of the organising committee and will contribute with a presentation, and share our latest work during a dedicated parallel workshop.

The CareersNet core experts are invited by Cedefop to attend the conference, which is directly followed by the seventh annual CareersNet meeting (June 1 afternoon), kindly hosted at the venue in Stockholm by the organisers in Sweden. The Euroguidance annual network meeting will also take place prior to the conference, rounding off a four-day week dedicated to lifelong guidance.

The conference aims to discuss the significance of the new scenes for lifelong guidance across different arenas in education, training and the labour market and the surrounding society undergoing many transformations. Participants will discuss what these changes mean for the career guidance profession, for policy development, and for the content of guidance practices, particularly with technological developments, demographic shifts, and a global energy crisis and war in Ukraine, on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic onset.

Invited national, European, and international stakeholders - policymakers, researchers, trainers, practitioners, and others operating in the field of lifelong guidance in Europe will be welcomed to Stockholm in the Scandinavian early summer for fruitful discussions and the exchange of ideas and experiences.

Lifelong guidance stands as a key component in skills development and supports effective labour market participation and access to learning opportunities. It intends to support individual and collective skills and competence development by enabling acquisition of career management skills (CMS) while also providing services and learning opportunities to individuals of any age, to reflect and act on their ambitions, interests, qualifications, skills, and talents – and to relate this knowledge about who they are to who they might become in life and work.

You can find more information at the event webpage: European lifelong guidance conference: New Scenes for Career Guidance

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CareersNet, Cedefop’s network of independent national experts in lifelong guidance and career development, will convene in Stockholm for a half day on 1 June 2023. It is the first onsite meeting for the network since the third annual meeting in Rome in 2019 and the first-time new members who joined since 2021 will meet off...

CareersNet, Cedefop’s network of independent national experts in lifelong guidance and career development, will convene in Stockholm for a half day on 1 June 2023. It is the first onsite meeting for the network since the third annual meeting in Rome in 2019 and the first-time new members who joined since 2021 will meet offline.

The annual meeting will be hosted by Swedish Council for Higher Education, the National Agency for Education, and the Swedish Public Employment Service at the venue of the joint conference New Scenes for Career Guidance. Cedefop is contributing as part of the conference organising committee, which is also supported by several other partners in the field in Sweden.

CareersNet core experts will meet to discuss ongoing activities related to updating the European Guidelines for systems and policies for lifelong guidance. Mutual exchange of experiences in what regards current national developments in national guidance systems will also be a priority.

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Cedefop and the OECD are organising their third joint symposium on Apprenticeship and the digital transition, on 15 and 16 June 2023 in Thessaloniki.  The event will explore the links between apprenticeships and the digital transition, and their implications for policy making, bringing together policy makers, practit...

Cedefop and the OECD are organising their third joint symposium on Apprenticeship and the digital transition, on 15 and 16 June 2023 in Thessaloniki. 
The event will explore the links between apprenticeships and the digital transition, and their implications for policy making, bringing together policy makers, practitioners and researchers from around the world. 

UPDATE: Preregistration is now open. Click here to submit your interest to attend the event in person. See below the provisional agenda outline.   

The event will be built around papers that present new evidence or offer analysis on the challenges and opportunities that digitalisation already brings or may bring for apprenticeships in the future. Paper presentations will be complemented by presentations by Cedefop and the OECD, panel discussions and Q&A rounds with the engagement of participants.

Digital technologies have the potential to boost more inclusive and sustainable growth by spurring innovation, generating efficiencies and improving services. Digitalisation and automation, underpinned by advances in robotics, artificial intelligence and other digital technologies, have an impact on employment, changing skill needs and potentially resulting in skill mismatch. They also support the development of new forms of work and learning, such as platform or gig work, remote ICT-based work, distance or blended learning, crowdlearning.
As new or redefined skills may be required, apprenticeships, by being tightly linked to the labour market, can provide opportunities to develop the right skills for the digital transition, both for youth in initial education and for adults in need of upskilling or reskilling.  They can support and foster the transformation processes triggered by digitalisation, at least in terms of new or redefined training content/learning outcomes. At the same time, digitalisation presents an opportunity for apprenticeships to adjust to new forms of training that are facilitated by new technologies.

The symposium will explore the link between apprenticeship and the digital transition in two strands:  
A.    What is the impact of digitalisation on the demand for apprenticeship training (e.g., in terms of new or redefined skills, occupations, programmes, curricula etc.)? 
B.    What is the impact of digitalisation on apprenticeship training supply (e.g., teaching and training methodologies, training of teachers and trainers to use new technologies etc.)?   

Information for participants

Preregistration is now open. Click here to submit your interest to attend the event in person.

Agenda Outline – March 2023 

Please note that times stated are indicative. Final agenda will be communicated two weeks before the symposium.  

Thursday, 15 June: 10:00-17:30 local time 

  • Opening speeches 
  • Setting-the-scene presentations by Cedefop and the OECD 
  • Sessions of paper presentations 
  • Q&As / discussions 

Friday, 16 June: 10:00-15:00 local time

  • Sessions of paper presentations 
  • Q&As / discussions 
  • Panel discussion with representatives from the implementation level 
  • Closing messages 

As announced, the organisers do not cover any travel or accommodation costs, but offer: 

  • Coffee and lunch during each day of the event 
  • Shuttle services on specific time from central points in Thessaloniki to Cedefop premises and back according to the symposium programme  
  • Special rates in specific hotels, depending on their room availability 

Information for authors/ presenters

Cedefop and the OECD have received abstracts on both strands following a call for papers 
A joint Cedefop/OECD panel has already assessed the abstracts and authors of the most relevant ones have been informed to develop full papers. Selected, papers will be (a) presented during the 2023 Symposium and/or (b) included in the subsequent joint Cedefop/OECD publication. 

Key steps and dates for authors:

  • Deadline for draft full paper: 1 March 2023 
  • Draft full paper review by Cedefop/OECD: 2 May 2023 
  • Deadline for symposium presentations: 9 June 2023 
  • Event: 15-16 June 2023 
  • Deadline for full paper: September 2023 (provisional, tbc) 
  • Expected publication date: January 2024 (provisional, tbc) 

The 2023 Symposium continues the joint work of Cedefop and the OECD on apprenticeships. See more about our past events and publications: 

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Reference
Cedefop/2023/01/AST
Closing date
07/02/2023