I am working as a Project manager and the Co-ordinator of the European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network, ELGPN which was established in Helsinki, May 7-8, 2007. The European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network aims to assist the European Union Member States and the Commission in moving European cooperation on lifelong guidance forward in both the education and the employment sectors. The purpose is to promote cooperation at Member State level on lifelong guidance and to propose appropriate structures and support mechanisms in implementing the priorities identified in the Resolutions on Lifelong Guidance (2004, 2008). The ELGPN was established by the Member States and the Commission is supporting the activities of the network in 2007-2010 under the Lifelong Learning Programme. Finland coordinates the ELGPN in 2008-2012.
Part of my work is allocated to a research team which promotes more solid evidence base for lifelong guidance policy development. The team is also developing the National centre for lifelong guidance expertise, established in the university in January 2006. I am also a Guest assistant professor at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences School of Social Sciences, Gimli University of Iceland and a Research Associate with Florida State University’s Center for the Study of Technology in Counseling and Career Development. My PhD thesis (2006) focused on the use of ICT in guidance.
I am an Excecutive Board member and Vice-President of the International Association for Vocational and Educational Guidance, IAEVG , a Board member of the International Centre for Career Development and Public Policies, ICCDPP and a member of the European Training Foundation Editorial Board 2009-14.
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