NICE Knowledge Alliance Proposal for 2015

Dr Hazel Reid

6th NICE Conference in Bratislava – May 29, 2015

1. Purpose and Main Goals 2

In February 2015, a group of colleagues from NICE submitted a proposal to the European Commission to fund a “NICE Knowledge Alliance for Innovation in the Academic Training of the Career Guidance & Counselling (CGC) Workforce in Europe” (NICE-KA).

Objectives of the Application:

Support sustainability of NICE and its achievements and keep the network going through large events and online-collaboration

Involve practitioners and guidance organisations in research and development to quality-assure academic training of career professionals

Conduct a systematic review of academic training in CGC across Europe (“European Competence Standards Benchmark”)

Produce multimedia resource kits for academic training in CGC

Promote good practices in CGC and the training of career professionals through train-the-trainer workshops

2. Partnership 3

36 Full Partners from 20 European Countries

• 20 higher education institutions (HEI) with academic training and/or research programmes on career guidance and counselling (CGC)

• 16 enterprises offering career services of all sorts, including public, profit and non-profit organisations

60 Associated Partners

• Further HEI with degree programmes in CGC

• Further enterprises offering career services

• International scientific associations focussing on CGC

• Professionals associations and certifying bodies

• National guidance forums

3. Benefits of Involving a Large Diversity of Enterprises 4

A central goal of the project will be to conduct in-depth case studies of the challenges, which specific career services face in practice, including a validation of the European Competence Standards relevance for practice. For the development and identification of innovative, competence-based training and assessment methods, we believe that we will strongly benefit from practitioners’ experience in practice.

4. Organisation & Management 5

Five self-managed Innovation Clusters working on central

themes for innovation in career guidance and

counselling: for the intensive cooperation

of practitioners and academics

People with Special Roles and Tasks in each cluster, to

foster common qualitystandards and comparability

of the cluster outcomes

A Central Team to coordinate the overall

project, in cooperation with the Cluster Coordinators, to reach the challenging goals and integrate the results

Quality Commissioners to

evaluate all products through peer-reviews

and advise the coordinators in

strategic questions

5. Trans-Disciplinary Cooperation in Clusters 6

6. Contributions to the Sustainability of NICE 7

Through the Funding of the NICE Knowledge Alliance we would…

Co-Finance 2 NICE Conferences, including some funds for the involvement of representatives from organisations not involved in the project. They would be hosted by:

Saxion University of Applied Sciences in 2016 (Netherlands) University of Padova in 2018 (Italy)

Promote the goals of NICE as defined in the NICE Memorandum, particularly the implementation and validation of the European Competence Standards

Collect and develop open-access resources and materials for academic training in career guidance and counselling, involving all NICE Members

Support the maintenance of the NICE Website and the NICE Newsletter, particularly to disseminate good practices and news around Europe

7. Coordination 8

Knowledge Alliance Coordination Team Dr Hazel Reid, Canterbury Christ Church University (UK) Johannes Katsarov (Germany) Dr Peter Weber, Heidelberg University (Germany)

Innovation Cluster Coordinators Guidance for Youth Employment: Prof Valérie Cohen-Scali, Conservatoire National

des Arts et Métiers (France) Career Services in Enterprises: Prof Nicolas Schöpf, University of Applied Labour

Sciences (Germany) Guidance for Inclusion of Marginalized Groups: Prof Laura Nota, University of

Padova (Italy) Transitions of Adults: Prof Pia Cort, Aarhus University (Denmark) Setting Up Career Services: Sasa Niklanovic, National Association of Career

Counsellors (Slovenia)

Decisions of strategic importance for NICE would be made in close cooperation with the NICE Steering Committee

Dr Hazel Reidhazel.reid@canterbury.ac.uk

www.nice-network.eu

Thank you very much

for your attention!