Event Documentation

Stakeholder meeting: Digital formats of educational guidance (28/02/2023, online)

The event was organised by the National Coordination Point EAAL in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of Baden-Württemberg. Politically, the event was located in the projects of the "Upskilling Pathways" initiative and the education policy priorities of the National Continuing Education Strategy. The event was aimed at invited representatives and experts from politics, practice and science.

Hans Georg Rosenstein from the National Agency of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training and Suzan Bacher from the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport welcomed the participants as joint organisers. Among other things, they emphasised the great interest in the event and the importance of the topic, among others for groups of people with low participation in continuing education. In order to reach these target groups - according to Ms Bacher - it is important to expand low-threshold guidance formats. Online guidance can make an important contribution to this. However, there are numerous challenges and questions regarding the concrete design.

Prof. Dr. Henning Pätzold reflected on the increasing importance of artificial intelligence (AI) in guidance contexts in a keynote speech jointly prepared by him and Dipl. Päd. Joshua Dohmen (both University of Koblenz) entitled "Potentials and limits of media-supported, supra-regional offers for further education guidance".

Regine Zizelmann and Joshua Wegerer from the coordination office of the State Network for Continuing Education Guidance (LNWB) in Baden-Württemberg reported on the work of this network under the title "LNWB - Portrait and Status - Further Development of Online Guidance". The aim of the network, which emerged from the Alliance for Lifelong Learning in Baden-Württemberg, is to offer provider-neutral and free continuing education guidance in all regions of Baden-Württemberg on general, vocational and academic continuing education close to home or online.

Brigitte Franz from the Senate Department for Integration, Labour and Social Affairs in Berlin and Frank Schröder from kos GmBH reported on Berlin experiences on the topic of "Guidance in Education and Careers in the Digital Transformation - Practice and Experiences". The speaker first gave an overview of the goals and structure of counselling on the topic of education and career in Berlin.

Anne Bertelt and Elisabeth Tadzidinoff from the Gesellschaft für innovative Beschäfti-gungsförderung mbH (G.I.B.) in North Rhine-Westphalia reflected on "Digital formats of guidance on continuing education and career change processes".

The final presentation was an international contribution by Karin Okonkwo-Klampfer from the Educational Guidance Service in Vienna entitled "Educational Guidance via Messenger". Ms Okonkwo-Klampfer's presentation referred to a project in Austria, which is being carried out in 6 provinces and is financed by the European Social Fund, the national Ministry of Education and the provinces.

Please find here an English version of a summary including recommendations for action by Prof. Dr. Christiane Schiersmann: Summary