ABSTRACT
Career development and lifelong guidance are conceived at the European Union (EU) as a tool to support citizens in accessing all types of learning and work opportunities and for mobility. One of the goals of the International Symposia has been the development of a sustainable mechanism to carry out the dialogue between the career guidance practice and the policy development. This global discourse was supported by the European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN) in 2007–2015 as an alliance of policy developers from European countries in both the education and the employment sectors. The ELGPN developed a comprehensive range of EU reference tools and publications for European lifelong guidance policy and systems developments at EU and national levels through systematic policy sharing and learning. Public policies relating to social issues, such as career and workforce development, are areas of national competence.
