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PEER LEARNING EVENT ON

Guiding at risk youth through learning to work

Thessaloniki, 26-27 November 2009

Venue: Mediterranean Palace Hotel

3, Salaminos & Karatassou streets

54626 Thessaloniki

Tel. +30-2310-552554

Thursday 26 November 2009

09.00 – 09.30 Participants arrive at the Mediterranean Palace Hotel

09.30 – 10.00 Registration of participants

PLENARY: TRANSITION OF AT THE RISK YOUTH INTO

ADULTHOOD IN EUROPE

Meeting room: POSIDON A

Chair Mr Mika Launikari, Cedefop

10.00 – 10.10 Welcoming words

Mr Mika Launikari, Cedefop

10.10 – 10.25 Knowledge sharing among participants “An ice-breaker”

10.25 – 10.45 European policy initiatives supporting individual learning pathways – Focus on EQF and ECVET

Ms Isabelle Le Mouillour, Cedefop

10.45 – 11.00 Purpose and rationale of the Cedefop study on guidance for youth education-to-work transitions

Mr Mika Launikari, Cedefop

11.00 – 11.30 Main findings of the study

Ms Anne-Mari Nevala/Ms Pat Irving, GHK Consulting Limited, UK

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break

12.00 – 12.20 Discussion

12.20 – 12.45 Irish Youthreach service experience – Reflections from decision-making perspective in relation to the key findings of the study presented

Dr Dermot Stokes, Ireland

12.45 – 13.00 Discussion and instructions for the workshops

Mr Mika Launikari, Cedefop

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch at the restaurant of the hotel

14.30 – 17.00 Two parallel workshops (coffee break 15.30-16.00)

Workshop 1: PREVENTATIVE GUIDANCE MEASURES

Meeting room: POSIDON A

Chairperson: Ms Pat Irving, GHK Consulting Limited, UK

Rapporteur: Mr Helmut Zelloth, ETF, Italy

Presentation 1. Mentoring among young people from ethnic

minorities, Denmark

Mr John Vinter Knudsen

Presentation 2. Aanval op de schooluitval, the Netherlands

Ms Marianne Visbeen

Workshop 2: CORRECTIVE GUIDANCE AND WORKING LIFE FAMILIARISATION MEASURES

Meeting room: POSIDON B

Chairperson: Mr Anton Simonic, Slovenia

Rapporteur: Ms Teresa Sorde Marti, Spain

Presentation 1. Notschool.net, UK

Ms Jean Johnson

Presentation 2. School and work alternation, Italy

Dr Luca Bilotti

17.00 End of the day

Friday 27 November 2009

PLENARY: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AS A PLATFORM FOR

LEARNING AND CAREER MANAGEMENT

Meeting room: POSIDON A

Chair Mr Mika Launikari, Cedefop

10.00 – 10.50 Workshop reports incl. discussion

10.50 – 11.10 AIKOS – the Open Information, Counselling and Guidance

System, Lithuania

Ms Aleksandra Sokolova, Ministry of Education and Science. Lithuania

11.10 – 11.30 Career management skills in Europe

Mr Jasmin Muhic, Coordinator of ELGPN working package 1

11.30 – 11.45 Discussion

11.45 – 12.10 Coffee break

12.10 – 12.30 Developing young people´s career management skills in Greece – The use of ICT and other methods as tools of lifelong guidance intervention

Ms Fotini Vlachaki and Ms Helena Mastoraki, Guidance Experts, Greece

12.30 – 12.45 Discussion

12.45 – 13.00 Conclusions and closing of the event

Mr Mika Launikari, Cedefop

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