Interactive multimedia web in developing career counselling methods

Abstract

Career Counselling Web is an EU Leonardo project, built on a guidance and counselling web-site developed by Careers Wales with thousands of registered users. Careers Wales in Gwent is acting as advisor and is taking part in the project’s development of new counselling methods. Partners from Slovenia and Sweden act as providers of design and target groups needs. The goal is to develop the portal and the interactive counselling methodology and to make the final product readily transferred to different languages and regions. The project will adapt the Welsh innovation to Slovenian and Swedish systems. The technical development is made by one partner with the Slovenian and Swedish partners organising pilot studies and testing. The Swedish public Employment service will support the project by providing feedback and by supporting dissemination. Careers Europe, UK will disseminate results within the EU. The resulting web portal will be ready to export to other interested bodies. Downloadable handbooks and tutorials will be available. The international networks of counsellors will benefit from the experiences that Careers Wales Online (CWO) has added, and the project may contribute to developing the professional counselling methods by using the interaction and dynamics in the project's resulting new portal.