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Abstract

The Career Guide For Schools is a Comenius 3 European network, which was co –financed by European Commission and end up on September of 2008, after three years of life span. The main aim of the project was to bridge the gap from school to the world of work. The specific objectives concern the development and publication of a handbook of Effective Career Guidance, which will become a useful tool for career counsellors every day life. The Handbook includes a report for career counselling status in Europe nowadays, activities and exercises for career counsellors and theoretical and pedagogical background of these activities. The research material and activities have been structured in three (3) thematic areas which cover the field of career guidance (1) self development, (2) information about he labour market, (3) planning the career path. All the activities have been implemented and evaluated in several schools (80) of our network through Europe. The CG project expanded the activities beyond the traditional career guidance and developed a section of five sessions of career counselling for rural areas, via internet access, meeting the special needs of students living in rural areas. In the framework of the CG project, was organized also an in service counsellors’ training seminar at Rhodes Island for a week (8-13 July 2008). Fifteen Career Counsellors from different European countries, exchanged ideas, methodologies and approaches for career counselling. The main aim of the training seminar was to present the career counselling status in different countries and participants to exchange ideas, approaches and best practices for relevant issues.