This document discusses lifelong guidance and career systems from supranational to regional levels. It summarizes Bertalanffy's general systems theory and the EU's flexicurity concept. It discusses the cross-cutting nature of lifelong guidance and its role in ensuring work for all, developing skills, and career choice freedom. The document outlines conventions from the 1960s-70s calling for comprehensive career guidance systems. It defines lifelong guidance in the EU context and its role in education, employment, and life transitions. Finally, it discusses networks for developing coherent lifelong guidance policies across levels and engaging different actors through an continuous improvement approach.

1. NETWORKING
AND CAREER
GUIDANCE
SYSTEMS
UP AND DOWN
FROM SUPRANATIONAL LEVELS TO REGIONAL
Tibor Bors BORBÉLY-PECZE, PhD.
Ancona, Italy
19th of May 2015

2. STRUCTURE OF THIS
PRESENTATION
Bertalanffy's ideas
Flexicurity concept of the EU
Cross-cutting
(lifelong) guidance before the EU resolution
Lifelong guidance: an European definition
Pillars for the joint work
Networking for LLG
Impacts; quality improvement, evidence, CMS

3. SYSTEM-THEORY
„Bertalanffy's ideas were developed into a General Systems
Theory. He defined a general system as any theoretical system of
interest to more than one discipline. This new vision of reality is
based on awareness of the essential interrelatedness and inter-
dependence of all phenomena - physical, biological,
psychological, social and cultural. It transcends orthodox
disciplinary and conceptual boundaries.
Another important aspect of systems is their intrinsically dynamic
nature. Their forms are not rigid structures but are flexible yet
stable manifestations of underlying processes…”
Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy, http://www.mind-development.eu/systems.html

4. Mainstreaming cross-cutting issues
7 Lessons from DAC Peer Reviews, OECD (2014)

5. ECONOMIC CONTEXT
FOR LIFELONG
GUIDANCE
Flexicurity is an integrated strategy for enhancing, at the same
time, flexibility and security in the labour market. It attempts to
reconcile employers' need for a flexible workforce with workers'
need for security – confidence that they will not face long periods
of unemployment.
http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=102

6. THE CONCEPT OF FLEXICURITY
AND LIFELONG GUIDANCE SYSTEMS
Social Security
Sys.
Lifelong
Learning /
Lifelong
Guidance Sys.
Labour Law Sys.
Active Labour
Market Policy
Measures Sys.

7. CROSS-CUTTING
• a technique especially in filmmaking of interweaving bits
of two or more separate scenes (Webster)
• linking traditionally separate or independent parties or
interests ⇒ a multi-agency, cross-cutting approach on
drugs (Collins)
• an issue is "cross-cutting", it suggest the image of a
public policy issue that cuts across the responsibilities of
a number of government departments. In order to address
such an issue, governments attempt to take a horizontal
policy approach to solving them, in which responsibility
for addressing the issue is spread across a number of
departments (via Social Media)

8. …BACK TO THE 60’S
(ILO C122)
2. The said policy shall aim at ensuring that--
• (a) there is work for all who are available for and seeking
work;
• (b) such work is as productive as possible;
• (c) there is freedom of choice of employment and the fullest
possible opportunity for each worker to qualify for, and to use
his skills and endowments in, a job for which he is well suited,
irrespective of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion,
national extraction or social origin.
C122 - Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122)

9. AND 70’S
CONVENTION CONCERNING VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE
AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF
HUMAN RESOURCES
Article 3
1. Each Member shall gradually extend its systems of vocational guidance,
including continuing employment information, with a view to ensuring that
comprehensive information and the broadest possible guidance are
available to all children, young persons and adults, including appropriate
programmes for all handicapped and disabled persons.
2. Such information and guidance shall cover the choice of an occupation,
vocational training and related educational opportunities, the employment
situation and employment prospects, promotion prospects, conditions of
work, safety and hygiene at work, and other aspects of working life in the
various sectors of economic, social and cultural activity and at all levels of
responsibility.
3. The information and guidance shall be supplemented by information on
general aspects of collective agreements and of the rights and obligations of
all concerned under labour law; this information shall be provided in
accordance with national law and practice, taking into account the
respective functions and tasks of the workers' and employers' organisations
concerned.
C142 - Human Resources Development Convention, 1975 (No. 142)

10. LIFELONG GUIDANCE
IN THE EU
In the context of lifelong learning, guidance refers to a range
of activities that enables citizens of any age and at any point
in their lives to identify their capacities, competences and
interests, to make educational, training and occupational
decisions and to manage their individual life paths in
learning, work and other settings in which these capacities
and competences are learned and/or used.
Draft Resolution of the Council and of the representatives of the
Member States meeting within the Council on Strengthening Policies,
Systems and Practices in the field of Guidance throughout life in

11. ROLE OF LIFELONG
GUIDANCE
Guidance can provide significant support to individuals
during their transition between levels and sectors of
education and training systems and from school to adult and
working life; to young people re-entering education or
training after leaving school early; to persons re-entering the
labour market after periods of voluntary or involuntary
unemployment, or homemaking; to workers where sectoral
restructuring requires them to change the nature of their
employment; and to older workers and migrants.
Draft Resolution of the Council and of the representatives of the
Member States meeting within the Council on Strengthening Policies,
Systems and Practices in the field of Guidance throughout life in
Europe, 14 May 2004

12. BEYOND THE MYTH OF
NATIONALITY…
Semin Suvarierol (2007) Beyond the Myth of Nationality:
A Study on the Networks of European Commission
Officials

13. A NETWORK FOR EUROPEAN
LIFELONG GUIDANCE POLICY
DEVELOPMENTS
Lisbon Treaty (2000): knowledge-based, competitive
and inclusive Europe
Expert Group on Lifelong Guidance Policy (2002-2006)
Jyvaskyla Presidency Conference (2006): bringing
together EMPL. & EDU.
Foundation of the Network (2007-2008)
Setting the agenda and developing policy tools, „the
years of the WPs”, European Resource Kit (2009-2012)
Adaptations at national levels (2013-14)
„Bringing together” a coherent policy toolbox (2015)

14. ROLES OF THE
NETWORKS

15. FROM SILOS TO SYSTEMS

16. CROSS-CUT APPROACH IN
POLICY DESIGN,
IMPLEMENTATION &
EVALUATION
ELGPN, Progress Report 2011-12

17. ENGAGEMENT OF DIFFERENT
ACTORS
17

18. POLICY DEVELOPMENT &
LIFECYCLE
18

19. 1. ELGPN
Toolbox
Guidelines
Resource Kit (inc
QAE)
Evidence Guide
Concept Notes
Policy Briefings
Glossary
2. Translation
ELGPN
6. Reflection 3. Customisation
4. Facilitation
(national policy
development)
5. Sharing
(twinning &
clustering)
EU policy
development
ELGPN CONTINUOUS
IMPROVEMENT CYCLE
Member
countries

20. Career Development Skills in Policy Papers
Skills Development Scotland
https://www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk/media/752669/career_management_skills_framework_scotland.pdf

21. Continuous Quality Improvement
ELGPN
EIPA
Man is the measure of all things. (Protagoras)

22. Hooley, ELGPN (2014)
Evidence
Guide

23. IMPACTS
23

24. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
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