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Lifelong Learning Programme project databases
Leonardo da Vinci: Compendium & Products
This database (http://leonardo.ec.europa.eu/pdb/
index_en.cfm) includes all (not just guidance- related) pilot projects, mobility projects and other measures financed under the Leonardo da Vinci Pro- gramme phases I and II (1995–2006). It contains information both about projects (title, year, partners, short project description etc.) and about their prod- ucts. The database permits the use of the following search criteria: type of measures (including ‘pilot projects’), target groups, themes etc. This database has been transferred into the Eve portal (see below), but the advantage of the Compendium & Products database is that guidance is one of the search catego- ries. Using the criteria ‘pilot projects’ and ‘vocational/
career guidance’ in 2009 resulted in a substantial number of guidance-related projects: 337 in all (255 from phase I; 82 from phase II). However, not all of these projects were guidance projects per se: in some, guidance was just one of several elements in the project.
Adam
Adam (http://www.adam-europe.eu) is an EU portal which offers access to information and products of the Leonardo da Vinci projects. Since 2008, co- ordinators of Leonardo da Vinci projects have been obliged to enter information on their projects into the Adam database, which also includes some but not all previous projects. Entering the search crite- rion ‘guidance’ in 2009 resulted in 49 hits; enter- ing search criterion ‘career guidance’ resulted in 103 hits. But some guidance-related projects appear to be missing, and many of the projects listed are more strongly related to other themes than guidance.
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• topic (for example, guidance policy, quality standards, social inclusion, training of guid- ance staff, etc.);
• target groups (for example, guidance counsel- lors, policy-makers, unemployed, etc.);
• country.
The database includes only a limited number of guidance projects, but there could be opportunities for further development and use of this database in the context of the work of the ELGPN.
Guidenet project
Guidenet is a Leonardo da Vinci project which was carried out in the period from 2001 to 2004. The aim of the project was to establish a transnational network of expertise, to gather together guidance initiatives, to evaluate and comment upon them, and to disseminate them as widely as possible within the guidance communities in Europe. The project had two outputs: a virtual forum; and a project database, which is the reason why this project is still relevant to ELGPN. The primary target-groups for Guidenet were guidance counsellors, guidance organisations, policy-makers and other actors in the guidance field at all levels nationally and transnationally. The project database is available on http://www.guidenet.
org/. The database includes many guidance projects which finished before 2005. For each project, a short description is available. The project database can be searched by country, programme, target group, theme, title and type. One of the aims of the project was to look for synergies by establishing working groups for key themes: ICT in guidance, social inclusion, networking, and training of guidance counsellors.
Reports which aimed at synergy between projects within each of these key themes are still available on the project website. Though Guidenet is a rich data- base of guidance projects, it does not include projects
which were completed after 2005; however, it is still very relevant to the work of ELGPN.
Leonardo da Vinci Programme publications
The European Commission’s DG Education and Cul- ture regularly publishes publications which present selected pilot and mobility projects as examples of good practice. These publications can help ELGPN members to focus on projects which have already been identified as representing good practice.
Success Stories: Europe Creates Opportunities (printed in 2007). This brochure presents a selection of twenty LDV projects carried out in the period 2001-07 that have been singled out for the transferability of their products and results, and their potential interest and usefulness to other new users. Only two of these projects are guidance-related projects.
50 Success Stories: Leonardo da Vinci Community Pro- gramme (printed in 2006). This brochure presents a selection of 50 Leonardo da Vinci projects from the period 2001–06, including 12 guidance innovation projects. Guidance projects (see ‘Category 2: Guid- ance and counselling) have been selected as exam- ples of best practice which have contributed to the Copenhagen process and the Lisbon strategy.
Women and Technical Professions (brochure in Good Practices series, 2002). The European Commission has prepared a series of brochures entitled “Leon- ardo da Vinci — Good Practices” to inform people about the results of the Programme. These brochures are designed to familiarise as many people as pos- sible with examples of good practice under the pro- gramme. The projects presented in this brochure, carried out in the period from 1995 to 1999, focus on women and technical professions, and have been selected for their impact and their originality.
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Social and Occupational Integration of Disadvantaged People (brochure in Good Practices series, 2003).
Innovative projects from the period 1995–97, aimed at social and occupational integration of disadvan- taged people, are presented. A few of these projects have strong guidance elements.
National agencies also publish brochures which present examples of good practice from each mem- ber-state. These brochures can be a rich source of information about relevant guidance projects.
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