National Resource Centre for Guidance
In 1998, the Ministry of Education and Research (MoER) founded the National Resource Centre for Guidance (NRCG) – Estonian Euroguidance Centre – to support guidance practitioners in promoting mobility and the European dimension within education and training and in the field of guidance.
Our main target group is guidance practitioners, whom we support by producing different information and methodological materials (printed and electronic versions), organising seminars and trainings on regional, national and international level, and developing web sites.
After ten years, the NRCG has become the main partner of MoER in developing the Estonian career guidance services system. After the successful implementation of the project the Development of the Guidance System in Estonia 2005-2008, financed through the EU Structural Funds, the NRCG continues with the programme the Development of Career Services in Estonia until 2011. NRCG is also nominated as a representative in the European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network.
In 2008, a contractual agreement to develop career services was signed between MoER and Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA) stating the areas of responsibility in providing high quality career services to the whole population. Within this agreement development of methodology, training system for practitioners, service provision, quality and co-operation in the field is being assured. The amount given to the development of this field during the years is around 4 million EUR.The National Resource Centre for Guidance (NRCG) was created in 1998 when it grew out of the European network Euroguidance. The objective of Euroguidance Estonia is to be a unit in the education sector that provides information about mobility and career guidance systems to specialists both in Estonia as well as in Europe and follows the principles of lifelong learning.
Main activities of NRCG
- Intermediate information and best practice about mobility and career guidance systems to career practitioners in Estonia and Europe.
- Development of career education in general and vocational schools.
- Contribution to the development of the national system of guidance by introducing the best European practice
- Development and introduction of ICT applications in guidance and counselling
- Strengthening of co-operation and information exchange within the institutional network in the fields of education, training, guidance, youth work and labour market policy in Estonia.
- Participation in transnational projects under both Community and national programmes in the field of education and guidance, and the encouragement of other relevant bodies in European project co-operation
Target groups
Career counsellors and information specialists, career coordinators and teachers, school psychologists, vocational counsellors at employment offices, consultants at youth information centres and university career services, other guidance and mobility specialists and European network colleagues.
In addition to the institutions represented in the Board we co-operate with Estonian Career Counsellors Association, Estonian Association of School Psychologists, Labour Market Board, Regional Centres of Youth Information and Counselling Centres, higher education institutions and their career services, Estonian Qualification Authority, Estonian Youth Work Centre, EU mobility networks and also with other programmes within the Foundation.
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