Introduction

Careers Europe is the lead partner in GUIDENET, an EU Leonardo da Vinci funded pilot project, which aims to establish a European Network of expertise in the field of Guidance. Guidenet offers the UK Guidance community an opportunity to network and establish links with a wide range of guidance and education organisations throughout the EU, EEA and pre-accession countries.

The Guidenet project will establish a transnational network of expertise to gather together guidance initiatives, evaluate and comment upon them and to disseminate them as widely as possible within the guidance communities in Europe. That there is a need for such a network can be demonstrated by the interest shown in practice and developments in other countries by policy makers and practitioners in Europe. The primary target groups for Guidenet are guidance counsellors, guidance organisations, policy makers and other actors in the guidance field at all levels nationally and transnationally.

It is hoped that the links, networks and partnerships created through GUIDENET will live on past the lifetime of the pilot project and that the project website and ICT platform will serve as a discussion forum for those interested in guidance activities throughout the EU, EEA and pre-accession countries.

The Project will run from December 2001 to November 2004.