eGos

Nowadays, vocational and educational guidance requires a wider use of ICT technologies, either to manage information and to deliver services to beneficiaries. More and more practitioners look at new technologies as a valid support to their day-by-day practice. New modes to deliver vocational/educational services are to be set up, either, with particular attention to disadvantaged users because of geographic, physical, personal and/or professional issues. We need to manage ‘traditional’ activities through up-to-date tools, offering a range of new services.
 
When delivering guidance, practitioners are used to interact face to face: but how about remote-carried activities, such as videoconference sessions? How does this new approach affect the relationship with final users? Which new or different actions can be spinned through ICT-based tools?Along with final users’ employability, capacity building of guidance practitioners is the aim of eGos project. They will be trained to the use of ICT-based tools for e-guidance delivery, using the eGOS prototype during the pilots and after the project ends.
 
The project envisages the interaction of pilots, trainer, tester and evaluator partners from five countries, in order to get a reliable test of its functionality. The validation will be acquired after a two-year test, through a step-by-step monitoring of the activities.
 
That's why also practitioners, not directly involved, should monitor the development of the project, subscribing to the (absolutely free) eGos newsletter. They are going to receive periodical information about works in progress, and useful professional tools (see, for example, the document D 3.1 - Ethical guidelines for e-guidance delivery and usage by Raimo Vuorinen, Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä, and James P. Sampson, Jr., Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä, at http://www.egos-cip.eu/node/139).