CHOICES

CHOICES – Cooperation between European EQUAL projects

The CHOICES partnership consists of Denmark, Finland, Italy and Spain. This partnership focuses on multicultural and gender-sensitive issues in guidance and counselling. The goal of the partnership is to create methods for guidance and counselling of young people at risk of exclusion and for promotion of equality between men and women in the labour market.

RESULTS OF CHOICES COOPERATION

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This newsletter shows the concrete results of the CHOICES cooperation during 2005-2007.

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Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento

MEET THE CHOICES PARTNERS!

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The CHOICES partners from Denmark, Finland, Italy and Spain present themselves and their projects in this newsletter/booklet.

CHOICES partners

The partners in the CHOICES network are:

CHANCES – Developing career counselling services to prevent social exclusion of young people (FI45), National Board of Education, Finland

GEG – Gender, Ethnicity and Guidance (DK-30), The Danish Research Centre on Gender Equality, Roskilde University, Denmark

GE.L.S.O – Genere, Lavoro, Segregazione, Occupazione (IT-IT-G2-TRE-012), Università degli Studi di Trento, Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale –Facoltà di Sociologia, Italy

CONCILIATE – BIERZO (ES-ES20040381), Ayuntamiento de Cacabelos, Spain

Objectives

The goals of the CHOICES cooperation are:

- to identify differences and similarities in the position of minority youth in the labour market in the participating countries;
- to compare and analyse guidance and counselling practices targeted at groups with special needs;
- to develop guidance methods to encourage boys and girls to choose careers that do not follow traditional gender divisions; and
- to disseminate experiences and results of the transnational cooperation regionally.

Concrete results of the European CHOICES cooperation will include research reports, good practice guides, newsletters, exchanges of experts and a thematic seminar to disseminate results.