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Examples and best practices

CVTIP: CENTRE FOR PR OFESSIONAL DEVEL OPMENT, TRANSFER AND ANC T : ASSOCIATION NOUVELLE CHANCE TUNISIE
INTEGRATION Programme & partner countries: Tunisia

Programme & partner countries: Morocco Start: 2012
Start: 2014 More information: https://arab.org/fr/annuaire/association-nouvelle-chance-tunisie/
More information: https://ueuromed.org/en/structure-innovation/centre-professional-development-transfer-and-integration-cvtip Member of the MedNC network, this project aims to contribute to the integration and inclusion of young people in their approach to
employability through training and continuing education to improve the chances of integration or promotion. They help graduate and
Service within the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes dedicated to supporting students and research professors in the youth who have not graduated from secondary and higher education, with or without qualification.
protection of intellectual property and the valorisation of their research work and inventions. It works to promote them, with a view
to concluding partnerships with the socio-economic sector. It also contributes to the placement of students in internship positions, ETF: EUR OPEAN TRAINING FOUND ATION
and to the professional integration of the UEMF laureates.
Programme & partner countries: EU
COIP: THE PR OFESSIONAL ORIENTATION AND INTEGRATION UNIT Start: 1994
More information: https://www.etf.europa.eu/en/practice-areas/promoting-employability
Programme & partner countries: Morocco Description: Collection of best practice, publications, videos, tools, library of policy measures
Start: 1976 Purpose: Supports countries surrounding the European Union to reform their education, training and labour market systems. Staff
More information: https://www.heurejoyeuse.ma/fr/benevolat/coip/
has expertise and experience gained over nearly 25 years of working hand-in-hand with government, business, and social partners in
Project with the Association L'Heure Joyeuse to promote the employability and entrepreneurship of young people from countries in and around the EU neighbourhood. The aim is to support each country’s own process for education, training, and labour
disadvantaged neighbourhoods and facilitate their integration into the world of employment. market reform, with a range of evidence-based methodologies.
CIHEAM: INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR AD V ANCED MEDITERRANEAN EUR OGUID ANCE
A GR ONOMIC S TUDIES Programme & partner countries: EU
Start: 1998
Programme & partner countries: Morocco More information: https://www.euroguidance.eu/guidance-systems-and-practice/good-practices
Start: 2019
More information: http://mip.iamb.it/?p=1194 Euroguidance is a European network of national resource and information centres for guidance in 34 European countries. Its main
target group consists of guidance practitioners in education and employment, among them professionals who provide information and
Offers skill building and projects, such as ‘Strengthening knowledge management for greater development effectiveness in the
Near East, North Africa, Central Asia and Europe’ with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD): CIHEAM BARI, guidance on international learning mobility to end-users seeking studying and training opportunities abroad. Euroguidance supports
the national and international networking of guidance practitioners by organising seminars, training, and study visits on different
in collaboration with International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) organised the ‘Writeshop to develop themes. It also offers Career Management Skills Framework for different countries.
capacity building and innovation plans’ in Rabat, Morocco.
TUNED: TUNISIAN NETW ORK FOR EMPL O YABILITY AND PR OMETHEUS
DEVEL OPMENT OF GRADU ATES’ SKILLS Programme & partner countries: EU
Start: 2003
Programme & partner countries: Tunisia More information: http://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/resources-centre/content/toolkit-25-tools-career-counselling-and-guidance
Start: 2016
More information: https://www.uni-med.net/progetti/tuned/ The Prometheus Toolkit includes a set of 25 innovative career counselling and guidance tools. The tools can be applied in the different
stages of the career counselling process and are selected in a way that they can fit various objectives and areas of career guidance.
Modernising and developing the Higher Education sector within society, strengthening the relations between university and The majority of tools are appropriate both for face-to-face and online guidance and there are tools, specifically addressing individual
enterprises and improve quality. The project uses a graduate database to create an integrated demand supply matching model. counselling, as well as others, which are applicable in a group context. The Prometheus project addresses the need for career
counsellors and guidance practitioners to also consider these challenges and looks to aid in making the counselling process more
4C: CAREER AND COMPETENCY CER TIFICATION CENTRE relevant to the needs and attitudes of a new generation of digital natives by providing an online platform with peer networking
opportunities and offering a repository of best practices and online guides and toolkits for counsellors.
Programme & partner countries: Tunisia
Start: 2014 SKILL UP
More information: https://www.4c.tn/
Programme & partner countries: EU
A national project in Tunisia which aims to improve the employability of students through counselling, support, training and Start: 2016
openness programmes on the socio-economic environment. The ‘4C’ centre is a structure present in university establishments and More information: http://skill-up-project.eu/
constitutes the link between the university and socio-economic actors.
Skill Up answers the urgent priority established by Europe 2020 policies of promoting graduates’ employability by means of
strengthening ties between higher education and VET curricula and the labour world through authentic learning scenarios and career
counselling and guidance. The project sets the stage for scaling up innovative learning approaches, ICT-based methodologies, greater
inter-sector cooperation, and the European-wide transfer of a replicable process that responds to real world work demands.